Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian urged supporters not to fall into “despair” but shed little light on his further political activities on Friday as he campaigned for one of his imprisoned loyalists running for parliament.
More than a dozen young opposition activists were beaten up by a larger group of men in downtown Yerevan on Sunday while campaigning for Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader running for Armenia’s parliament. (UPDATED)
Two prominent retired army generals urged President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday to pardon Sasun Mikaelian, one of the Armenian opposition leaders arrested and imprisoned after last year’s post-election unrest in Yerevan.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has no serious disagreements with President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK), its senior partner in the governing coalition, and continues to support him, a senior BHK representative said on Monday.
The continuing economic crisis has forced the Armenian government to delay by one year a sweeping reform of the national pension system, the head of the country’s state pension fund said on Monday.
The head of Russia’s Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (Rosatom), Sergey Kirienko, ended at the weekend a two-day visit to Armenia during which he discussed with Armenian leaders growing bilateral cooperation on nuclear energy. (UPDATED)
The chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court defended on Thursday his participation in President Serzh Sarkisian recent intercontinental trip aimed at explaining his conciliatory policy on Turkey to major Armenian communities abroad.
The Armenian government is committed to implementing the kind of reforms which Western donors believe are critical for Armenia’s sustainable economic development, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said through an aide on Tuesday.
Senior executives from a Turkish energy company will arrive Yerevan next week for fresh talks on planned exports of Armenian electricity to Turkey, Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said on Friday.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Yerevan on Friday in the largest street protest yet against the controversial Turkish-Armenian agreements organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and other nationalist groups opposed to President Serzh Sarkisian.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will campaign for President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation if he signs controversial normalization agreements with Turkey, a leader of the nationalist party warned on Thursday.
President Serzh Sarkisian dismissed domestic and Diaspora criticism of his conciliatory policy towards Turkey on Thursday after wrapping up a tense intercontinental tour of major Armenian communities abroad that sparked angry street demonstrations.
A former deputy defense minister expects the planned actual curtailment of military spending envisaged by Armenia’s 2010 state budget to have a negative effect on the country’s defense capability.
A senior representative of Armenia’s ruling party on Monday expressed confidence that a majority of the worldwide Armenian Diaspora supports the current rapprochement with Turkey and, in particular, the two draft protocols envisaging the normalization of bilateral relations that the two countries are expected to sign later this month.
A major Armenian opposition party, Zharangutyun (Heritage), has been thrust into turmoil and is facing an uncertain future following the still mysterious decision by its top leader, Raffi Hovannisian, to resign his parliament seat.
The Armenian government should not pay too much attention to construction in its efforts to reduce the effects of the global recession on the domestic economy, a senior official from the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
A well-known Armenian genocide scholar voiced support on Monday for official Yerevan’s and Ankara’s plans to form a joint body tasked with looking into the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
Armenia will not have a permanent military presence in Russia as part of its involvement in a Russian-dominated rapid reaction force comprising troops from five former Soviet republics, a top official in Moscow said on Thursday.
The reopening of the Turkish-Armenian border is still not a forgone conclusion despite the newly announced agreement to that effect between Ankara and Yerevan, Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian acknowledged on Wednesday.
An embattled Armenian mineral water plant owned by the extended family of an opposition-linked businessman is going to file a court action against the Environment Ministry holding it responsible for a multimillion fine that the company has been forced to pay after being found guilty of improper installation and sealing of its water meters.
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