A parliamentary election candidate of Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) was stabbed and seriously wounded on Wednesday in an attack which a senior BHK representative blamed on members of the ruling Republican Party (HHK).
A man accused of aiding anti-government gunmen who seized a police compound in Yerevan last year went on a hunger strike on Friday one day after he was again arrested by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
The longtime mayor of a big village near Yerevan has raised eyebrows outside his community after having a local street and a school named after him.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will not enter into an alliance with other political forces ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, a leader of the party allied to President Serzh Sarkisian said on Monday.
Hundreds of Armenian heavy trucks and other vehicles remain stranded at a border crossing between Georgia and Russia due to heavy snowfalls that have kept the mountainous road essentially closed for the past two weeks.
Armenia’s recently appointed Health Minister Levon Altunian has called for the legalization of informal payments to medical staff that have long been made by patients in the country.
A company that has long dominated imports of bananas to Armenia insisted on Monday that it did not obstruct stated government efforts to open up the lucrative business to competition.
Ill-treatment of criminal suspects held in police custody remains a problem in Armenia despite an “improvement in this area,” a Council of Europe body fighting against torture said on Tuesday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed military accused Azerbaijani forces on Friday of using mortars to intensify ceasefire violations along the “line of contact” around Karabakh.
An Armenian official has promised to “strictly punish” those who have left some poor families included in beneficiary lists without signal decoders after all local television companies switched to a digital-only mode of broadcast late last month.
Gagik Tsarukian, the founder and former leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party, has refused to commit himself to returning to active politics after an appeal from hundreds of supporters rallying outside his private house.
A former opposition politician who has served as deputy chief of President Serzh Sarkisian’s staff for the past four years has unexpectedly resigned and said he will challenge the Armenian government in next year’s parliamentary elections.
