Police cordoned off a square in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri on Tuesday to stop angry protests by local car owners against the abolition of a legal loophole that has allowed them to pay significantly lower import taxes.
An independent television station based in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri lost on Thursday a government-administered tender for a new broadcasting license and will therefore be almost certainly taken off the air by 2015.
President Serzh Sarkisian has sought to downplay the lingering allegations of pervasive corruption and abuse in the Armenian army, condemning its “vilification” in the wake of a recent series of non-combat deaths and reported malpractices in the military.
For the first time in nearly a century, Armenians have been allowed to conduct a religious service in a recently renovated island church in eastern Turkey, in an event that Ankara intended as a show of tolerance toward its Christian minority.
An Armenian opposition activist was set free on Thursday after completing a controversial prison sentence stemming from Armenia’s 2008 presidential race.
More than a thousand families in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri received new apartments on Friday over two decades after a powerful earthquake that destroyed their homes.
The government pledged on Thursday to ease Armenia’s heavy dependence wheat imports in the next few years by supplying local farmers with new sorts of seeds meant to boost their yields.
Members of Armenia’s main opposition alliance held a public rally in the country’s second largest city of Gyumri on Monday during which they again denounced the policies of the current government and called for snap elections.
A former high-ranking police official threatened to shun journalists “distorting” his statements as he took over as governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province on Friday.
Gagik Tsarukian, an influential businessman leading Armenia’s second largest governing party, urged voters to more actively participate in the next national elections on Tuesday as he sought to drum up greater public support in the northwestern Shirak region.
About 100 Turks rallied in Istanbul on Saturday in a first-ever public commemoration of the World War One-era mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey that was organized by a local human rights group.
A once powerful organization uniting thousands of Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war has further underscored its loyalty to President Serzh Sarkisian by admitting senior government figures into its ranks in at least one Armenian region.
An independent television station based in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri alleged a fresh government attempt to force it off the air on Friday after tax authorities froze its assets and bank accounts over allegedly unpaid taxes.
Taxi drivers and gold trade workers held separate protests in Armenia on Thursday condemning what they see as unfair tax pressures threatening their further business operations.
President Serzh Sarkisian criticized on Wednesday the quality of the renewed reconstruction of Armenia’s northern regions devastated by the 1988 earthquake, which seems to be increasingly falling behind schedule.
A government-connected entrepreneur who controls lucrative imports of basic foodstuffs to Armenia is poised to significantly step up his involvement in manufacturing with the ongoing construction of a major sugar plant in the northwestern Shirak region.
Officials insisted on Monday that the renewed reconstruction of regions devastated by the 1988 earthquake is going according to plan as Armenia marked the 21st anniversary of the calamity that killed 25,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of others homeless.
Three police officers in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri were sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday on chargers of bribery which they strongly denied.
Several dozen young supporters of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) marched to the Office of the Prosecutor-General in Yerevan on Friday to demand the release of a fellow activist who was arrested after distributing opposition leaflets last month.
Police in Armenia’s northwestern province of Shirak have detained a group of young men, among them the son of the controversial mayor of Gyumri, after a local villager was fired at on Thursday evening.
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