[ last updated 16:52 ] Andranik Markarian has left the strongest indication yet that he will not be Armenia’s prime minister after parliamentary elections which he believes will be scheduled for May 12.
[ last updated 16:57 ] Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman playing a growing role in Armenian politics, on Monday dismissed a conspiracy theory about his burgeoning Prosperous Armenia party that was voiced by a prominent opposition figure.
[ last updated 17:01 ] The Turkish-Armenian border will remain closed without a breakthrough in international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to a Turkish businessman who has long campaigned for normalization of relations between Ankara and Yerevan.
[ last updated 17:06 ] Stepan Demirchian, the top leader of the increasingly moribund Artarutyun (Justice) alliance, insisted on Monday that the creation of a new broad-based opposition bloc is not imminent despite optimistic statements made by his erstwhile allies.
[ last updated 16:48 ] “Hayk” says that the governor of the central Aragatsotn region, Gabriel Gyozalian, has instructed local village chiefs to campaign for his Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
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