Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharian will take part in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7 as the leader of the Hayastan Alliance and its candidate for prime minister.
An Armenian body tasked with constitutional reform has completed drafting the text of a new basic law, Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian said on Monday.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) has signaled its readiness to start a “process of consolidation” with billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s political party ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again pledged on Friday to try to enact the kind of constitutional change that Azerbaijan has set as a necessary condition for ending the conflict with Armenia.
Riot police made several arrests on Friday as hundreds of supporters of billionaire and emerging opposition leader Samvel Karapetian demonstrated outside a court in Yerevan to demand his release from house arrest ahead of Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Friday rejected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s new accusations voiced in the European Parliament amid his continuing attempts to depose its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II.
Twenty-five scholars based in the United States and Europe have deplored the resignation of the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) in Yerevan ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Armenian government decided on Thursday to spend 4.6 billion drams ($12.2 million) in fresh bonuses that will be paid to its senior officials and other government employees before the parliamentary elections slated for June 7.
The continuing war between the United States and Israel and Iran will likely delay the planned opening of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan through Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday acknowledged that he forced the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) to resign because of what she told and gave U.S. Vice President JD Vance during his recent visit to Yerevan.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading a major Armenian opposition group, was acquitted on Wednesday of what he sees as politically motivated charges brought against him nearly six years ago.
Turkey’s flagship carrier, Turkish Airlines, launched first-ever regular flights to Armenia on Wednesday in a move seen as another step towards the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
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