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Armenian police detained dozens of demonstrators in Yerevan on April 18 as protests continued over the election of former President Serzh Sarkisian as prime minister. Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian led supporters to Sarkisian's office and pledged to block access to key government buildings.
Thousands of Armenians marched in the capital on April 18 and police detained dozens of demonstrators seeking to keep up a protest movement following the election of longtime former President Serzh Sarkisian as prime minister.
Dozens of protesters were arrested as the Armenian parliament elected former president Serzh Sarkisian prime minister on April 17. Sarkisian has changed the constitution, transferring powers from the presidency to the prime minister, prompting days of demonstrations in Yerevan.
An opposition lawmaker who served three years in prison for his alleged role in Armenia's 2008 postelection demonstrations is back at it.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the center of the Armenian capital after lawmakers elected Serzh Sarkisian prime minister, cementing his continued dominance of power.
Large protests were under way on April 16 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, aimed at preventing former President Serzh Sarkisian from retaining power as prime minister. Demonstrators blocked streets and preventing metro trains from running.
Demonstrators and Armenian riot police clashed after lawmakers nominated Serzh Sarkisian to be the country’s next prime minister amid a wave of protests accusing the longtime former president of a power grab.
Thousands of people have jammed into a central square in the Armenian capital, protesting new government changes that could keep former President Serzh Sarkisian in power.
Two opposition lawmakers in Armenia have ignited smoke flares in parliament to protest plans to elect former President Serzh Sarkisian as prime minister.
Armen Sarkisian has been sworn in as president of Armenia amid speculation that outgoing President Serzh Sarkisian will become prime minister, a post that is now more powerful than the presidency due to constitutional reforms.
Three people working for a land-mine clearing charity have been killed after their vehicle hit a mine in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, officials said.
Several hundred supporters of a newly organized Armenian opposition group rallied in Yerevan to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of an activist who had been arrested for aiding antigovernment gunmen during a standoff with security forces.
Activists in Armenia have voiced concern that an antiterrorism provision included in a draft criminal code could be used to criminalize criticism of the government.
The ethnic-Armenian leader of Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh has arrived in the United States for a visit that has triggered a strong protest from the authorities in Baku.
The Armenian Prosecutor-General’s Office said on March 13 that it has no grounds for instructing an investigation body to interrogate former President Robert Kocharian in connection with postelection violence a decade ago.
A newly established opposition group held its first rally in the Armenian capital on March 10.
A senior Armenian Health Ministry official acknowledged that the government's controversial new restrictions on pharmaceutical sales touched off some problems, but he said Yerevan is moving to resolve them.
Armenia’s parliament on March 2 elected Armen Sarkisian as the country’s next president.
The parliamentary factions of the ruling Republican Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), also known as Dashnaktsutyun, have nominated former Prime Minister Armen Sarkisian for president.
Lawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament have overwhelmingly passed a motion recognizing as “genocide” the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
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