Topic: elections

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan on Monday, August 2, announced his resignation and revealed that he had differences with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the recent parliamentary race. Avinyan, 32, is a[...]

YEREVAN — Former Armenian president and current presidential candidate for the Armenia Alliance Robert Kocharyan held an online press conference via Zoom for various diasporan Armenian media and representatives on June 11, with the[...]

YEREVAN – The following sampling of images of billboards, taken by photographer Hovanes Boyadjian, provide a glimpse into the pervasiveness of the current electoral campaign in Yerevan. It is not meant to be a complete catalogue of[...]

By David Davidian It has been said, “Give a man enough rope, and he will hang himself.” During the immediate post-Soviet era, the West did its best to induce “cowboy, laisse-faire capitalism” within newly independent states[...]

YEREVAN – Almost a week since Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced a date for upcoming snap parliamentary elections, pro-government and opposition political parties are debating whether or not to implement a planned electoral code[...]

YEREVAN (Facebook) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his post on Facebook on March 18 that he met with Prosperous Armenia opposition parliamentary faction leader Gagik Tsarukyan and the two agreed that early elections[...]

YEREVAN — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced his readiness to hold snap elections on the evening of March 1. Addressing a large crowd in the capital’s Republic Square at an event commemorating the March 1, 2008, shooting of 10[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and lawmakers representing his My Step alliance spoke out against holding fresh parliamentary elections to resolve the political crisis in Armenia when they met late on Sunday, February[...]

STEPANAKERT (News.am) — The Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) on April 21 held a regular session that was exclusively devoted to the nationwide elections held in March-April 2020.[...]

STEPANAKERT (Artsakh Foreign Ministry; Armenpress) – The Foreign Ministry of the Republic issued the following statement. On March 31, 2020, in accordance with the constitution adopted at the national referendum in 2017, the sixth[...]