President Vladimir Putin on Monday pledged to strengthen Russia’s geopolitical presence in the South Caucasus and insisted that Armenia decided to join a Russian-led union of ex-Soviet states on its own. (UPDATED)
Armenia’s law-enforcement stands ready for possible protests during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to the country, Police Chief Vladimir Gasparian said on Tuesday.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian attracted small crowds on Friday as he visited Armenia’s second and third largest cities to drum up support for his new campaign of anti-government street protests.
At least 1,500 families in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri still lack adequate housing despite government pledges to complete the protracted reconstruction of the areas devastated by a catastrophic earthquake in 1988.
Vartan Ghukasian, the controversial former mayor of Gyumri, is facing fresh accusations of violent conduct one year after his resignation that was engineered by the Armenian government.
Russia considers its military base in Armenia to be vital for the South Caucasus country’s national security and will continue to strengthen it with modern weaponry, a visiting top Kremlin official said on Monday.
About two thousand apricot farmers blocked a major highway in Armenia’s southern Ararat province on Tuesday to demand that wholesale buyers raise the price of their produce.
Russia’s state-owned national railway on Tuesday expressed support for the idea of restoring a rail link with Georgia and Armenia passing through Abkhazia, which has been floated by the new Georgian government.
The Armenian police said on Tuesday that they have confiscated nearly one hundred assault rifles and other weapons in an ongoing crackdown on two rival clans in Gyumri that was launched after a deadly shooting last week.
Five more men were detained in Gyumri on Thursday night just hours after the chief of the Armenian police, Vladimir Gasparian, announced a tough crackdown on two local clans locked in a bloody feud.
Former Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian was set free on Tuesday night after spending almost three hours at a police station in connection with a high-profile murder committed in Armenia’s second largest city.
Vartan Ghukasian, the controversial former mayor of Gyumri, was detained along with two dozen other persons late on Tuesday in connection with the killing of a man reputedly connected with his most bitter local rival.
Two teenage boys were killed on Sunday in what officials believe was an explosion of a landmine at an outdoor shooting range used by Russian troops stationed in Armenia.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian declared fellow opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian the rightful winner of Armenia’s presidential election but remained in no rush to join his campaign of anti-government protests on Saturday.
The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province where President Serzh Sarkisian was defeated by his main opposition challenger, Raffi Hovannisian, stepped down on Friday.
Armenia’s presidential election can already be considered free and fair, the authorities in Yerevan declared on Monday evening amid fraud allegations made by at least one of the opposition candidates. (UPDATED)
A senior Russian diplomat has dismissed as “baseless” and “absurd” Paruyr Hayrikian’s claims that “imperialist” elements in Russia may have been behind last week’s armed attack on the prominent Soviet-era dissident.
In one of the most dramatic acquittals in Armenia’s history, a court in Gyumri on Tuesday cleared three former soldiers of involvement in the 2003 violent death of two other servicemen which human rights groups claim was covered up military prosecutors.
A Russian diplomat denied on Thursday media reports that Russia has suspended a controversial program that encourages and facilitates immigration from Armenia.
Two government-backed candidates of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) swept to landslide victories in parliamentary by-elections on Sunday which their opposition challengers condemned as fraudulent.
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