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.
The governor of Armenia’s northern Lori province said on Tuesday that he will step down because of a decision to replace him made by the country’s political leadership.
Yet another textile factory in Armenia has suspended its operations due to coronavirus infections among its workers.
Authorities in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor shut down three local kindergartens on Wednesday after the parents of some children attending them were infected with the coronavirus.
Two more textile factories in Armenia suspended their operations on Tuesday after dozens of their workers tested positive for the coronavirus.
The government on Tuesday ordered Armenia’s largest textile factory to close for three days after at least three of its 2,600 employees tested positive for coronavirus.
The Armenian government has allowed two textile plants employing about 3,000 people to resume their operations suspended last month due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian called for “additional efforts” to slow the spread of coronavirus in Armenia on Tuesday after authorities reported the highest daily increase in infections in more than two weeks.
The Armenia government will allow more companies to resume next week their operations suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has offered his apology to a 34-year-old man whom he snubbed during a recent trip to the Lori province where he also campaigned ahead of next month’s constitutional referendum.
Mikael Minasian, former President Serzh Sarkisian’s son-in-law and reputed confidant, is a suspect in an ongoing criminal investigation into a 2010 privatization deal which Armenian prosecutors say cost the state millions of dollars in losses.
Expert opinion must be decisive for the future of a large-scale gold mining project in Armenia that was disrupted by protesters last year, Finance Minister Atom Janjughazian said on Thursday.
A mining company developing a major copper and molybdenum deposit in the north of Armenia has denied any major problems at its facilities after a series of claims doubting the safety of its operations, including from the former owner of the mine.
The Armenian police appeared to have deployed more officers in the northern town of Ijevan on Friday two days after clashing with local residents protesting against government efforts to end illegal logging in nearby forests.
A large copper mine located in Armenia’s northern Lori province will resume its operations next week after an 18-month shutdown that led to mass layoffs and a change of ownership.
Որպես համայնքապետի պաշտոնակատար Վանաձորից Քարաձոր գործուղված Հակոբ Միկոյանը մի քանի օրից հրաժեշտ կտա գյուղին։
Davit Sanasarian, the head of an Armenian anti-graft agency facing corruption charges, continued to protest his innocence on Tuesday, accusing “counterrevolutionary” forces of seeking to discredit him.
More than a hundred employees of a copper smelter in northern Armenia blocked a nearby railway on Wednesday in protest against its recent closure which followed the government’s decision to enforce strict environmental regulations there.
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