The Orinats Yerkir Party of Artur Baghdasarian announced on Monday that it has decided to replace yet another minister representing it in President Serzh Sarkisian’s coalition government.
A national gas-distribution company’s top manager was installed as Armenian capital Yerevan’s new mayor on Friday after the city council dominated by the ruling party voted overwhelmingly to support his candidacy.
Armenia’s ruling party has approved several major changes in the current government proposed by President Serzh Sarkisian and has named a candidate for the mayoral post in capital Yerevan that has remained vacant since its former holder’s scandalous resignation earlier this month.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s office has confirmed the latest reports in the media about imminent “personnel changes” in the government. But talking to RFE/RL’s Armenian service late on Thursday, presidential spokesman Armen Arzumanian stopped short of providing details.
President Serzh Sarkisian will have decisive word in the upcoming election of Yerevan’s new mayor by the municipal council, a leading member of his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Monday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) stepped up its criticism of the Armenia’s current leadership on Wednesday, saying that the country is controlled by a “privileged class” of wealthy government-linked citizens.
Yerevan’s controversial Mayor Gagik Beglarian was forced to step down on Wednesday after reportedly beating up a member of President Serzh Sarkisian’s staff. (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian urged the European Union on Tuesday to press harder for the release of his loyalists remaining in prison, the Armenian government’s respect of civil rights and an objective inquiry into the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
Thousands of Armenians have donated small amounts of money to a fund set up to assist a television company that has been struggling for years to regain its broadcasting license.
The failure of the latest international push for a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement has demonstrated that both the conflicting parties and international mediators are interested in preserving the status quo, a spokesman for Karabakh President Bako Sahakian claimed on Friday.
A leading member of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) on Wednesday denied the newly disclosed U.S. claims that Armenia had re-exported weapons to Iran.
Military investigators officially identified on Wednesday an Armenian soldier who they say shot dead four fellow servicemen and wounded three others at a military base in Nagorno-Karabakh late last week.
An Armenian court on Friday rejected opposition leader Nikol Pashinian’s lawsuit against a controversial extension of his imprisonment by prison authorities.
The Armenian military said on Thursday that it has formally dismissed two mid-level army officers who were recently charged with extorting money from their subordinates.
Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader and newspaper editor, has been placed in solitary confinement after claiming to have been assaulted at the Kosh prison near Yerevan, it emerged on Tuesday.
Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader and newspaper editor, claimed to have been assaulted in his prison cell early on Thursday, an allegation categorically denied by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
Two Turkish minority party leaders have been asked to leave Armenia after being questioned by National Security Service officials about their claims to have crossed the closed Armenian-Turkish border earlier this month.
Armenia views the latest round of Karabakh talks with Azerbaijan as “useful and important”, according to its foreign minister Edward Nalbandian.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed on the need for further confidence-building measures in the protracted search for peace in Karabakh as they held a fresh round of talks in Russia.
An Armenian nationalist party said on Tuesday it had “no serious expectations” from a new round of Armenian-Azerbaijani talks on Karabakh to be hosted by Russia this week.
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