[ last updated 15:57 ] President Serzh Sarkisian dismissed on Thursday the longtime chief of the Armenian police, Lieutenant-General Hayk Harutiunian, and appointed another career police officer in his place.
[ last updated 15:59 ] Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian on Thursday raised the alarm over rising inflation in Armenia and instructed the government to crack down on local companies abusing their de facto monopoly on imports of wheat and other basic foodstuffs.
[ last updated 16:01 ] The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Thursday that its has expelled one of its prominent members who has challenged the legitimacy of President Serzh Sarkisian and called for the holding of fresh national elections.
[ last updated 16:04 ] A court in Yerevan refused on Thursday to declare illegal the controversial dismissal of former Foreign Ministry officials who publicly condemned the Armenian government’s conduct of the recent presidential election.
[ last updated 16:07 ] A key committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has expressed concern at the Armenian government’s failure so far to launch an independent inquiry into the deadly post-election violence in Yerevan and release arrested opposition members.
[ last updated 15:54 ] “Aravot” quotes Hovannes Hunanian, deputy chief of the Armenian police, as “effectively” saying that opposition protesters that gathered in Yerevan on March 1 sought to kill him.