Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday appointed the Armenian-born former mayor of Glendale, a city in Los Angeles County, as head of a newly formed government division tasked with coordinating Armenia’s relations with its worldwide Diaspora.
The owner of a TV channel critical of Armenia’s government faced arrest on Friday after being charged with assaulting another man at the start of former President Robert Kocharian’s trial in Yerevan.
A prominent Armenian government official on Friday laughed off corruption accusations leveled against him but urged supporters not to undermine the government when defending his innocence.
Armenian lawmakers have allowed owners of already purchased right-hand drive vehicles to import them to Armenia within the next several weeks.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has insisted that closer ties with the European Union sought by his government cannot undermine Armenia’s alliance with Russia.
The Armenian police reported on Wednesday an 11 percent increase in the number of various crimes registered in the country last year.
A high-ranking officer who headed former President Serzh Sarkisian’s security detail for over two decades was again arrested on Thursday almost five months after being charged with corruption.
Four soldiers were killed and several other were injured as a military truck transporting servicemen flipped near a southeastern Armenian town on Wednesday, a Defense Ministry spokesman told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
The weekend municipal elections in Yerevan were free and fair, a senior representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) acknowledged on Monday.
A lawyer for Manvel Grigorian denounced former President Robert Kocharian on Friday for saying that the retired army general currently prosecuted on corruption charges supported the Armenian opposition following the 2008 presidential election.
The Armenian Defense Ministry claimed that Azerbaijani forces opened fire towards officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe while they monitored the ceasefire regime along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan on Thursday.
More than a hundred firefighters battled on Monday a massive fire inside a Soviet-era chemical plant in Yerevan that has largely stood idle for the last several years.
The Armenia Ministry of Environment Protection pledged on Friday to rehabilitate a nature reserve that has been seriously damaged by a massive wildfire.
A senior Armenian government official on Thursday attributed a sharp rise in the cost of commercial flights between Yerevan and Moscow and other major Russian cities to the increased number of visitors to Armenia.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s alliance and several other political groups have decided not to run in next month’s mayoral election in Yerevan, making it a largely two-horse race between the ruling Republican Party (HHK) and the opposition Yelk alliance.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian was shunned by the mayor of Artashat, his predecessor Hovik Abrahamian’s son, when he visited the town on Wednesday, a senior member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) complained on Thursday.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Tuesday denied responsibility for a series of violent attacks widely attributed to the ongoing parliamentary election campaign.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) is illegally using government resources in its parliamentary election campaign, the country’s leading anti-corruption watchdog claimed on Wednesday.
A man allegedly linked to a pro-government lawmaker was detained on Thursday on suspicion of stabbing and seriously wounding an activist of Gagik Tsarukian’s electoral alliance in Armenia’s Ararat province.
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