Armenia’s Constitutional Court has delayed until July 9 a keenly anticipated decision on whether former President Robert Kocharian can stand trial on charges stemming from the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament said on Friday that they have no plans to join forces with former President Robert Kocharian in challenging the current government.
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament said on Tuesday it will avoid for now launching an inquiry that could lead to Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s expulsion from the National Assembly.
Adding to mounting pressure on Gagik Tsarukian, parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan has challenged the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) to publicly dispel “reasonable” doubts about the legality of his entrepreneurial activities.
A close associate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian congratulated Armenians on Tuesday on the first anniversary of the dramatic resignation of the country’s former leader, Serzh Sarkisian, announced amid mass protests against his continued rule.
Tensions between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s alliance and Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) rose on Thursday as their senior representatives traded fresh accusations in the parliament.
An Armenian opposition leader on Friday praised Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest remarks on Nagorno-Karabakh but disputed his claim that Armenia has become a full-fledged democracy since last year’s “velvet revolution.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s alliance and the main opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Tuesday continued to blame each other for a transgender activist’s unprecedented speech in the Armenian parliament which caused a stir in the socially conservative country.
The Armenian government plans to reduce the burden of direct taxes as it considers it to be key to economic growth, according to a minister.
Parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan urged political forces on Wednesday to start negotiations on reforming Armenia’s electoral legislation and bodies.
The presidential and parliamentary elections held in Armenia during former President Serzh Sarkisian’s decade-long rule were not rigged, the chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), Tigran Mukuchian, insisted on Tuesday.
The Armenian police said on Thursday that they are trying to track down former Environment Minister Aram Harutiunian who was charged last month with receiving $14 million in bribes while in office.
Representatives of the pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament denounced on Tuesday what they called threats to the authorities made by a leader of a party whose members stormed a police station in Yerevan in 2016.
The National Security Service (NSS) said on Thursday that an indicted brother of Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian has paid the state $30 million from a bank account that was frozen last summer.
Parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan on Tuesday spoke out against the idea of restoring a presidential system of government in Armenia which has been floated by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s political party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted one of the two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament as he secured parliamentary approval of his government’s five-year policy program on Thursday.
Opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday of showing contempt for their criticism of his government’s five-year policy program debated by the Armenian parliament.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian on Tuesday added his voice to opposition criticism of the government’s five-year policy program, saying that it is too vague.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian insisted through a lawyer on Friday that he has not testified against his predecessor and former ally Robert Kocharian in the ongoing criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has allowed a prominent businessman prosecuted on corruption charges to receive medical treatment in Germany one week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in his favor.
Բեռնել ավելին
