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Politics

Yerevan ex-Mayor and two other oppositionists deprived of Council of Elders mandates

Yerevan Council of Elders (municuipal assembly) voted today to deprive several opposition members of their mandates, but faild to deprive of their mandates two others due to insufficient number of "in favor" votes.

07.02.2024, 15:20

Politics

The idea of sending UN peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh hardly realistic – Russian diplomat says

The idea of dispatching UN peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh is hardly realistic, Pyotr Ilichev, head of a department at the Russian Foreign Ministry said in an interview with RIA Novosti news agency.

08.02.2023, 10:17

Politics

Opposition MPs will not be stripped of their mandates

The Armenian Parliament’s Council will not ask the country’s Constitutional Court to strip some opposition MPs of their mandates, although they exceeded the permissible number of absences from National Assembly sittings, National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan said today, stressing also that after boycotting the sessions, opposition MPs decided eventually to return to the parliament.

23.01.2023, 16:31

Politics

Pashinyan suggests Russia seek UN mandate for its peacekeeping forces in Nagorno- Karabakh

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan suggested today that the Russian Federation itself initiate discussions in the UN Security Council on awarding a UN mandate to its peacekeeping contingent deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh.

29.12.2022, 12:43

Politics

Reviving Armenia party ends its activity as part of opposition Hayastan alliance

The Reviving Armenia party, a member of the opposition Hayastan alliance in the parliament together with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun, announced in a Facebook statement today it was terminating its activities in the National Assembly.

29.11.2022, 13:51

Politics

Armenia's ruling party will eventually ask Constitutional Court to deprive opposition of their parliamentary mandates

Armenia's ruling Civic Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that controls the majority of seats in the parliament will, nonetheless, ask the Constitutional Court to deprive tens of opposition MPs of their mandates, according to a statement placed on the parliament's official website today.

22.07.2022, 11:27

Politics

Armenia's ruling party decides against asking Constitutional Court to deprive opposition of their parliamentary mandates

Armenia's ruling Civic Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that controls the majority of seats in the parliament will not ask the Constitutional Court to deprive tens of opposition MPs of their mandates, Ruben Rubinyan, deputy speaker of the parliament, told reporters on Thursday.

14.07.2022, 19:53

Politics

Armenian opposition MP Artur Ghazinyan resigns

Armenian MP Artur Ghazinyan from the opposition Hayastan alliance said today he will renounce his mandate.

04.07.2022, 11:46

Society

Armenia cancels mask mandate in open spaces

Citing a considerable drop in the number of new cases of Covid-19 in the country, Armenia’s Ministry of Health has cancelled today mask mandate in open spaces.

17.12.2021, 16:20