The Armenian police launched on Friday a criminal investigation into serious abuses in the administration of public procurements that have been alleged by the parliamentary Audit Chamber.
The opposition minority in the Armenian parliament lashed out at the country’s government on Wednesday, saying that its economic policies have been a gross failure.
Suren Khachatrian, the controversial governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province, officially stepped down on Thursday amid the continuing fallout from a deadly shootout that occurred near his house on June 1.
A senior Armenian law-enforcement official insisted on Wednesday that a regional governor notorious for violent conduct was not personally involved in a shootout outside his house that left one person dead and sparked calls for his prosecution.
The son and a bodyguard of Suren Khachatrian were remanded in pre-trial custody on Tuesday on charges of murdering a man outside the home of the controversial governor of Armenia’s Syunik province.
The leadership of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to step up their efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at a meeting held in Yerevan on Friday.
Syria’s embattled President Bashar al-Assad still enjoys considerable popular support and should therefore not be excluded from international efforts to end the bloody conflict in his country, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Friday.
Armenia’s state utility regulators have revealed the scale of natural gas and electricity price rises that will come into effect soon because of the increased cost of gas imported from Russia.
The cost of travelling by public transport in Armenia could also rise because soon of the sharp increase in the price of natural gas imported from Russia, Transport and Communications Minister Gagik Beglarian said on Wednesday.
In an about-face condemned by the opposition, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) blocked on Monday the launch a new parliamentary inquiry into the 2008 deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.
A key ally of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday publicly disagreed with his controversial strategy of cooperation with Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), dismissing its opposition credentials.
Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Wednesday that it continues to regard the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) as an opposition force despite statements to the contrary made by BHK leader Gagik Tsarukian.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) said on Monday that it will take up its seats in Yerevan’s newly elected municipal council despite its criticism of the conduct of the May 5 elections in the capital.
Amid the continuing silence maintained by his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on Wednesday condemned as “shameful” the conduct of the weekend municipal elections in Yerevan.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that it has received a popular mandate to govern Yerevan for another four years amid allegations of vote rigging made by the country’s main established opposition forces.
Tens of thousands of people marched to a hilltop memorial in Yerevan on Wednesday in an annual remembrance of some 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey during World War I in what many historians consider genocide.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on Tuesday urged the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), of which he is a senior member, to officially declare itself an opposition political force.
Opposition parties should cut a power-sharing deal in Yerevan if they succeed in stripping the ruling Republican Party (HHK) of its majority in the municipal council, a deputy chairman of Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Thursday.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) criticized its political opponents on Wednesday for viewing the upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan as an opportunity to weaken its grip on power in the country.
A close associate of Raffi Hovannisian rounded on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday for dismissing as unserious anti-government protests held by the fellow opposition leader after the recent presidential election.
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