A former aide to Robert Kocharian predicted on Friday that the former president will not stand as a candidate in Armenia’s next presidential election due in February 2013.
Lawmakers from Armenia’s leading opposition forces harshly criticized the government for failing to prevent the repatriation of Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov as the National Assembly debated the resulting diplomatic scandal at an emergency session on Wednesday.
Lawyers representing the family of the late military doctor Vahe Avetian accused the Armenian police on Monday of deliberately botching a criminal investigation into his violent death at a Yerevan restaurant owned by a government-linked businessman.
The Armenian police have reaffirmed their refusal to prosecute businessman Ruben Hayrapetian in connection with a deadly assault at a Yerevan restaurant owned by him, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) remains part of the country’s political leadership despite pulling out of the ruling coalition in May, a prominent associate of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Friday.
There are currently about 2,000 ethnic Armenians from Syria residing in Armenia after having mostly fled violence in the Middle Eastern state, the Ministry of Diaspora in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The Armenian opposition on Friday failed to muster sufficient support for an emergency session of parliament on last month’s deadly violence at a now infamous restaurant in Yerevan.
The opposition minority in Armenia’s parliament demanded on Thursday that the National Assembly launch a separate inquiry into last month’s deadly violence at a Yerevan restaurant owned by a controversial businessmen close to the government.
An Armenian human rights campaigner claimed to have been assaulted by Ruben Hayrapetian late on Sunday as hundreds of activists clashed with riot police in continuing protests against deadly violence at a restaurant owned by the government-linked businessman.
Yet another prominent member of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) announced on Thursday his decision to leave the opposition alliance because of policy differences with its leader Levon Ter-Petrosian.
The Armenian government is “on the right track” in carrying out democratic reforms and can therefore count on greater financial assistance from the European Union, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said during an official visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
Ethnic Armenians keen to flee escalating violence in Syria have limited options of taking refuge in Armenia as all the tickets for a single flight service currently existing between the two countries have been booked until September.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of an Armenian military doctor on Monday amid continuing public outrage against a government-connected businessman who employed the men accused of beating him to death at a Yerevan restaurant last month.
An Armenian army officer was arrested early on Sunday after reportedly threatening to blow up an expensive restaurant in Yerevan where one of his colleagues was beaten to death by security guards working for an influential government-linked businessman.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian will again run for president next year if he sees “favorable conditions” for doing that, a leading member of his Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Friday.
One of the three men who were badly beaten up this month at a Yerevan restaurant belonging to a powerful government-linked businessman died in hospital on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday again blamed Azerbaijan for recent ceasefire violations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and the lack of progress in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that a controversial businessman affiliated with it is not responsible for a violent assault that occurred at a Yerevan restaurant owned by his family.
The Armenian police have made three more arrests in the criminal investigation into the weekend violence at a Yerevan restaurant that left three men, all of them military doctors, seriously injured.
Four men have been arrested in connection with the severe beating of three military doctors at a Yerevan restaurant belonging to an influential government-connected businessman, police said on Wednesday.
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