Major anti-government protests continued in Armenia for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with opposition leaders vowing that there will be no letup in their efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Opposition groups in Vanadzor on Monday accused Armenia’s leadership of seeking to nullify their victory in last December’s municipal election through what they see as an unconstitutional bill.
As one of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, France is ready to respond to the request of the Armenian government and do everything possible to achieve a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the country’s envoy in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
One of Armenia’s largest mining companies belonging to a Russian bank sanctioned by the West has decided to suspend production operations.
Official Yerevan said on Thursday that it needs to sign a legally binding agreement with Baku before it can start building a railway that will connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave.
An Armenian court has extended the pre-trial arrest of the former mayor of Vanadzor who defeated the ruling Civil Contract party in a municipal election held in the country’s third largest city two months ago.
A court blocked on Friday the first session of Vanadzor’s newly elected municipal council in what local opposition figures denounced as a government attempt to prevent their arrested candidate from becoming the mayor of Armenia’s third largest city.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party was defeated in Armenia’s third largest city of Vanadzor and several other major urban communities in local elections held on Sunday.
Ten political parties and alliances have applied to run in a local election that will be held in Armenia’s third largest city of Vanadzor next month.
In a move strongly condemned by its opposition minority, the National Assembly approved on Friday a controversial government proposal to merge the vast majority of Armenian cities and villages into much bigger communities.
Local officials from various regions of Armenia have denounced government plans to merge virtually all cities and villages into much bigger communities.
Law-enforcement authorities have suspended a criminal investigation into an alleged violent assault on the opposition-linked mayor of a large village in Armenia’s Lori province who refused to resign following the June 20 parliamentary elections.
A nurse in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor claimed on Thursday that local authorities tried to get her fired because she ran in last month’s parliamentary elections as an opposition candidate.
The heads of at least three rural communities in Armenia’s northern Lori province supporting opposition groups have resigned, bowing to government pressure exerted on them after last month’s parliamentary elections.
The governor of Armenia’s northern Lori province affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday demanded the resignation of elected heads of local communities who supported opposition forces in the June 20 parliamentary elections.
The mayor of a large village in Armenia’s northern Lori province supporting the main opposition Hayastan alliance claimed to have been beaten up on Tuesday after rejecting the provincial governor’s demands to step down.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) reiterated on Wednesday that it would not join a possible coalition government led by Nikol Pashinian after Sunday’s general elections.
Edmon Marukian, the leader of the opposition Bright Armenia Party (BHK), insisted on Wednesday that it would not cut a separate power-sharing deal with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian or former President Robert Kocharian as a result of Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday urged voters to give him and his party a mandate to continue to rule Armenia with a more firm hand.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday brushed aside the publication of what former President Serzh Sarkisian has portrayed as further proof of his reckless rejection before last year’s war with Azerbaijan of an international plan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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