Thousands of opposition supporters again took to the streets of Yerevan on Tuesday during a session of the Armenian parliament which formalized former President Serzh Sarkisian’s continued rule.
Hundreds of people blocked more streets in the center of Yerevan on Monday on the fourth day of their nonstop demonstrations aimed at preventing former President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his rule.
The Armenian police avoided dispersing opposition supporters that continued to block the intersection of two key streets in central Yerevan on Saturday in protest against former President Serzh Sarkisian’s apparent efforts to extend his rule.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian and his associates began touring Armenia’s northern and central regions on foot at the weekend in preparation for street demonstrations in Yerevan aimed at preventing President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his rule.
Representatives of a three-party opposition alliance represented in parliament have downplayed the threat to their unity despite differences over tactics of opposing outgoing President Serzh Sarkisian’s perceived intention to stay in power.
A number of human rights activists in Armenia have claimed that with the new draft Criminal Code an attempt is being made to criminalize sharp criticism of the government.
The sessions of Yerevan’s City Council cannot be held behind closed doors, Armenia’s Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan said on Wednesday, responding to concerns about controversial plans of the Armenian capital’s municipality to limit media access to meetings of its legislature.
Armenian Justice Minister David Harutiunian has expressed his concern over a show recently aired on state television that local human rights activists say mocked female prison inmates.
An emerging opposition movement held its first rally in Yerevan on Saturday, calling for combined efforts to prevent outgoing President Serzh Sarkisian from staying in power after the end of his second and final term next month.
An opposition leader in Armenia has asked the country’s prosecutor-general to subpoena ex-president Robert Kocharian for questioning over 2008 post-election violence that left 10 people dead.
Hundreds of people rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to mark the tenth anniversary of a deadly suppression of anti-government street protests that followed a disputed Armenian presidential held in February 2008.
Raffi Hovannisian’s Zharangutyun party said on Monday that it hopes to form a coalition of opposition forces that would try to prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his decade-long rule.
Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday rejected as unconstitutional a government bill that would seriously limit the next Armenian president’s power to grant pardons.
Armenia’s next prime minister, who will take office in April, will be based in a building in Yerevan that has housed President Serzh Sarkisian and his staff for the past decade, under a newly publicized government bill.
The outgoing President Serzh Sarkisian’s preferred successor met lawmakers representing the ruling Republican Party (HHK) on Monday at the start of political consultations which he has said will help him decide whether to become Armenia’s next president.
With just over two months to go before the end of his final term, President Serzh Sarkisian pledged at the weekend to personally help to implement a seven-year program of modernizing Armenia’s armed forces.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday more than 1.3 billion drams ($2.8 million) in funding for a range of anti-corruption measures which it said will be taken this year.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s political alliance made clear on Thursday that it will not join a demonstration against the latest consumer price hikes in Armenia which is planned by another opposition group.
The Armenia government offered on Monday to ease its planned restrictions on the use of right-hand drive cars in Armenia, bowing to protests staged by some of their owners.
A Russian-Armenian fund planning major business projects in Armenia insisted on Thursday that it has not received any investments from a controversial businessman blacklisted by the United States for his alleged ties to organized crime.
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