Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has praised the Armenian government’s efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus and condemned “fierce” attacks launched against it by hardline opposition forces.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Armenia rose by 39 to 329 in the past 24 hours, health authorities reported on Friday morning.
Beyond the constitutional amendment concerning seven judges of the Constitutional Court that Armenians are going to vote on in next month’s referendum, Armenia also considers carrying out a ‘large-scale’ reform of its basic law, according to an expert.
Georgi Kutoyan, who headed Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) in the final years of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule, was found shot to death in Yerevan on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian put an optimistic spin on the economic situation in Armenia on Friday as the National Assembly approved his government’s budget for next year calling for further sizable increases in public spending and tax revenue.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian has triggered bitter recriminations between his opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance by accusing Yerevan’s mayor of obstructing his investment projects.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended on Tuesday sweeping judicial reforms initiated by his government, again accusing Armenia’s former leadership of seeking to retain control over courts.
Armenia’s parliament backed on Tuesday a government proposal to raise the minimum wage in the country by more than 23 percent.
Pro-government lawmakers have vehemently criticized Robert Kocharian over his article published on a Kremlin-funded news agency’s website in which the former president described Armenia’s current leadership as “pro-Western” and predicted “bad scenarios” for the country.
In what it calls an anti-corruption measure, Armenia’s Justice Ministry has drafted a bill that would allow authorities to confiscate private properties and other assets deemed to have been acquired illegally.
Mining operations at Amulsar gold deposit will speed up economic growth in Armenia, boost the country’s tax revenue and result in thousands of new jobs, a senior Armenian government official said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian criticized the United States on Thursday for what he called a lack of adequate “reaction” to democratic change in Armenia.
The National Assembly began debating on Tuesday the Armenian government’s five-year program which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again portrayed as a policy framework for an “economic revolution” in the country.
A senior opposition lawmaker strongly criticized a five-year policy program of the Armenian government on Thursday, saying that it is short on specifics and sets very few socioeconomic targets.
An Armenian regional newspaper claimed to be systematically bullied by individuals linked to the country’s largest mining company after a car belonging to it was set on fire early on Tuesday.
The opposition Bright Armenia party condemned the pro-government majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday for not electing one of its leaders as a deputy speaker of the parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with Bako Sahakian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president, in Yerevan on Thursday two weeks after accusing senior officials in Stepanakert of “meddling” in Armenia’s parliamentary race.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has abused his administrative resources ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections, a top representative of Armenia’s leading anti-corruption watchdog said on Thursday.
Acting ministers and governors representing the political team of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will run for parliament in December elections, according to a senior member of Pashinian’s Civil Contract Party.
The Armenian parliament will again debate next week a package of major amendments to the Electoral Code drafted by the government.
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