Opposition candidate Paruyr Hayrikian indicated late on Friday that he expects a two-week postponement of Armenia’s February 18 presidential election because of the armed attack that left him seriously wounded.
The United States expects Armenia’s upcoming presidential election to be more democratic than the legislative polls held in May last year, U.S. Ambassador John Heffern said on Wednesday.
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu ended a two-day official visit to Armenia on Tuesday as the two countries moved closer to signing an agreement on joint manufacturing and maintenance of weapons.
A former senior member of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) hit out at the opposition alliance on Monday, saying that it has helped President Serzh Sarkisian to ward off serious threats to his rule.
Representatives of small real estate agencies in Yerevan claimed to be facing closure on Tuesday because of what they described as a sharp rise in taxes.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Friday stressed the importance of a Russian-Armenian agreement on joint manufacturing and maintenance of weapons that will reportedly be signed next month.
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili pledged to seek the restoration of Georgia’s railway communication with Russia, vital for Armenia, and help make Georgian-Armenian relations “ideal” during his first official visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Former President Robert Kocharian has explained his decision not to challenge his successor Serzh Sarkisian in Armenia’s upcoming presidential election and again criticized the current government’s economic record.
Economy Minister Tigran Davtian said on Monday that Armenia’s industrial production should continue to grow strongly this year despite what he described as an unfavorable external environment.
Armenia wants to simultaneously deepen its relations with Russia and the European Union and sees no contradiction between these two policy goals, the secretary of President Serzh Sarkisian’s National Security Council said on Friday.
The Armenian government on Thursday formally objected to the passage of an opposition bill that would make it a crime for parliament deputies to vote in place of their colleagues not attending a parliament session.
Vazgen Khachikian, the arrested former head of Armenia’s state pension fund, will go on trial soon as part of a large-scale criminal investigation into what law-enforcement authorities say were serious abuses in the payment of various social benefits.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday urged disgruntled Armenians to turn out in large numbers for next month’s presidential election, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian’s reelection is not a forgone conclusion.
Paruyr Hayrikian, a prominent Soviet-era dissident who played a major role in Armenian politics in the 1990s, is making a political comeback with his decision to run in next month’s presidential election.
Consumer price inflation in Armenia continued to fall in 2012, reaching the lowest level since 2005, according to the latest government data released on Friday.
The government announced on Thursday that it has annulled the controversial sale of a historic building in central Yerevan that houses the Armenian ministries of foreign affairs, energy and local government.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that it too will not nominate a candidate in the upcoming presidential election because it does not think that the vote will be free and fair.
The Armenian military on Monday reported “significant” arms acquisitions in 2012 and said it will continue to modernize its forces with precision weaponry in the coming years.
The opposition minority in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday looked set to lose control of one of its 13 standing committees tasked with enforcing a code of conduct for lawmakers.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian discussed his reform agenda with Vice President Joe Biden and sought greater U.S. economic assistance to Armenia as he ended a working visit to the United States late on Thursday.
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