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At least 83 people were detained by police early on April 20 after protests resumed in Yerevan against the election of longtime former Armenian President Serzh Sarsyan as prime minister. Hundreds of demonstrators took …
Yerevan police detained 37 representatives of the My Step initiative, who were locking traffic on Yerevan streets, the police said. "Acting in accordance with the law, police are continuing to transport all people who violate …
Opposition activists are marching down Yerevan streets to gather supporters for an evening rally following an attempted blockade of ministries in the downtown city. The opposition tried to block entrances to ministries on the Arama …
The leader of the Civil Contract opposition party, MP Nikol Pashinyan, and his supporters blockaded all the government facilities on Republic Square and the Government House in central Yerevan. The first meeting of the …
Armenian opposition activists, led by the head of Yelk parliamentary bloc, Nikol Pashinyan, clashed minutes ago with riot police on Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan, several hundreds meters away from the parliament building.
Armenia's former president Serzh Sargsyan was nominated today for the post of prime minister, a spokesman for Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov said. Sargsyan was nominated by the ruling …
The demonstrators, led by opposition Civil Contract Party member and National Assembly Yelk Faction head Nikol Pashinyan, entered the Armenian State Pedagogical University, in Yerevan. "We call for a boycott …
Representatives of the Armenian opposition have blockaded several streets and intersections in Yerevan, continuing a protest action against the nomination of former President Serzh Sargsyan as candidate for prime minister of …
Yelk opposition faction MPs burnt flares at today’s session of Armenia's National Assembly. An opposition lawmaker, Ararat Mirzoyan, was booked for speaking, but instead of delivering a speech he …
A brawl took place at today’s session of the Yerevan Council of Elders in Armenia. Opposition Yerkir Tsirani (Apricot Country) Party faction members had brought along containers of sewage from Nubarashen as a result of which here …
Armenia's National Assembly rejected the opposition Yelk faction’s draft statement on the need for Armenia to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). A total of 76 MPs voted against and solely 6 …
According to the Armenian opposition, the justification for Armenia's withdrawal from the EAEU is a decline of socio-economic indicators, barriers to development of the economic relations with third countries
Armenia's opposition will appeal today against results of the parliamentary elections held in the country on April 2 in the Constitutional Court. Representatives of the bloc of parties 'Armenian National Congress - People's …
In Yerevan, two gunmen surrendered to police officers and two others were injured. "From night till now, two men surrendered voluntarily, two were injured and hospitalized," a source in police said. It is specified …
The armed group in Armenia's capital city Yerevan released two medical staff, kept hostages, spokesperson of the Armenian healthcare ministry said on Sunday, TASS reports. "Doctor Norayr Tevanyan and nurse Malina Markaryan …
The former US Assistant Secretary for the South Caucasus, former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, Matthew Bryza, explained to Vestnik Kavkaza that the armed seizure of the patrol in Yerevan's Erebuni district by activists of the …
Two injured from the Sasna Tsrer armed group were taken to Erebuni medical center due to the shootout between the police officers and the group members. The injured members, Ashot Petrosyan and Hovhannes Harutyunyan, have been operated …
A mediator in the police hostage standoff in the Armenian capital is telling local media that two hostages have been released and that a tentative agreement on freeing the other two has been reached, Fox News reported. The standoff …
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has called on the gunmen holding hostages in a police station to lay down arms and release the police officers they’re holding. The police station in capital Yerevan was seized …
In the capital of Armenia the opposition once again begins to rally in support of the people, who seized the police building in Erebuni. We know that people are gathering not away from the police …
