The three main opposition contenders of the weekend municipal election in Gyumri on Thursday warned the Armenian authorities against declaring a pro-government bloc its outright winner.
The governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed victory in local elections held in about 300 communities on Sunday but risked losing control of Vanadzor, the country’s third largest city.
A pro-government bloc and several opposition parties suspended their election campaigns in Gyumri after a son of a local mayoral candidate died from a gunshot wound on Tuesday.
A Russian soldier charged with killing a family of seven in Armenia has refused to make a closing argument and have his “last word” as the main proceedings in his high-profile trial were completed on Friday.
An Armenian prosecutor demanded on Friday life imprisonment for a Russian soldier who has pleaded guilty to murdering an Armenian family of seven in the country’s second largest city of Gyumri last year.
An Armenian court on Thursday refused to order Russia to pay a hefty financial compensation to relatives of an Armenian family of seven murdered, apparently by a Russian soldier, in Gyumri last year.
The Armenian Apostolic Church considers Pope Francis a “friend” of Armenia and expects tens of thousands of people to greet him during his upcoming visit to the country, a senior clergyman said on Wednesday.
Relatives of an Armenian family of seven murdered in Gyumri last year demanded on Friday a hefty financial compensation from Russia during the ongoing trial of a Russian soldier charged in the massacre.
The spiritual leaders of Armenia’s Roman Catholic community hailed on Thursday Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to the country as a recognition of and strong support for its Christian heritage.
A village in Armenia has decided to rename its main street bearing the name of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in protest against the Central Asian state’s pro-Azerbaijani position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Armenia’s ruling party believes that scrapping direct mayoral elections in two major cities believed to be opposition strongholds will help reduce “personal feud” and reinstate truly competitive environments in local polls.
A world-renowned pianist has joined a campaign initiated by an activist in Gyumri to buy apartments to some of the families who continue to live in makeshift housing more than 27 years after their homes were destroyed in a powerful quake.
The Russian soldier charged with killing an Armenian family of seven in Gyumri pleaded guilty to all grave accusations levelled against him as his main trial continued there on Friday.
The main trial of a Russian soldier accused of murdering an Armenian family of seven resumed in Gyumri on Monday amid more protests from relatives of the victims.
Relatives of seven Armenians murdered in Gyumri last year on Tuesday threatened to boycott the trial of a Russian soldier who has confessed to the massacre if it continues inside the Russian military base in Armenia.
An Armenian court began on Friday the main trial of a Russian soldier who has confessed to last January’s gruesome killings of the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri.
Most voters in Gyumri have rejected President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional amendments despite his last-minute promise to provide large-scale economic assistance to Armenia’s second largest city plagued by poverty and unemployment.
A coalition of opposition and civic groups launched its nationwide campaign against President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes on Friday with a rally in Gyumri attended by several hundred people.
Underscoring Armenia’s warm relationship with the Vatican, President Serzh Sarkisian attended on Thursday the inauguration of a newly constructed Catholic church in Gyumri which was led by a visiting Vatican cardinal.
A Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday in the first, Russian trial stemming from the gruesome crime.
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