All members of the majority faction in the City Council in Gyumri not representing Armenia’s ruling party have given up their seats following the reported resignation of Mayor Vardges Samsonian, potentially prompting a vote in the local legislature on a new head of Armenia’s second largest city.
Official Yerevan has expressed its deep concern over developments in the region after recent Israeli strikes against Iran.
The Armenian government has effectively further delayed the introduction of a mandatory national health insurance system by designating no funding for it in next year’s state budget, it emerged on Monday.
Official Yerevan says no revision of the Armenian-Russian interstate agreement on the status of Russian border guards in Armenia is planned following a decision earlier this month that a checkpoint at the border with Iran will be manned exclusively by Armenian personnel beginning next year.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has congratulated his Georgian counterpart, Irakli Kobakhidze, on the ruling party’s victory in the country’s October 26 parliamentary elections disputed by the opposition.
Yerevan is satisfied with the recent negotiations between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that yielded some “tangible results” and marked progress in the peace process between the two South Caucasus nations, an ally of the Armenian leader has revealed.
Armenia’s judicial oversight body appears to have ignored a Constitutional Court ruling ordering it to reconsider the controversial sacking last year of a well-known judge who accused authorities of suppressing judicial independence.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian on Friday pledged to continue campaigning for regime change in Armenia but declined to shed light on further actions of his opposition-backed protest movement.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped criminal charges against one of the three exiled Nagorno-Karabakh mayors prosecuted by them after signaling support for antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have validated a framework agreement on the delimitation of the long border between the two countries.
The ruling Civil Contract party is starting preparations for a fresh municipal election in Gyumri following a government crackdown on a local businessman whose bloc runs Armenia’s second largest city.
Armenia remains committed to deepening its relations with neighboring Iran, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during talks held in Russia on Thursday.
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