After almost two weeks of mass protests in Armenia, the prime minister and government resigned. Since April 13, mass protests have been held in Yerevan and other cities of the country against the appointment of Serzh Sargsyan as Prime Minister, who previously held the post of President of the country for 10 years. Support for the “velvet…
Revolution in Armenia: soldiers supported a protest demonstration against the arrest of the opposition leader - the all-powerful ruler Serzh Sargsyan resigned! Just yesterday he was the most powerful man in his country - and today the revolution overthrew him and no security forces...
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. Participants of thousands of demonstrations in Yerevan during the last days demanded his departure. According to the BBC, TASS and Interfax report on Sargsyan's statement with reference to the prime minister's press service. In his address, Sargsyan, who took office ...
Armenian police are detaining protesters throughout Yerevan against the confirmation of former President Serzh Sargsyan as prime minister. In addition, the police suppress any attempts to gather and gather citizens, writes “Interfax”. The harsh dispersal of the demonstrators led to injuries, on April 22 ...
Mass anti-government protests resumed in Yerevan and other cities of Armenia on Saturday morning. This is the ninth day of protests against the appointment of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan as Prime Minister. Despite the arrest of hundreds of protesters in Yerevan the day before, hundreds of supporters of the opposition movement led by ...
In Yerevan, demonstrators opposing the new prime minister laid siege to the residence of the head of government, News.am reports. On Wednesday morning, a column of demonstrators walked unhindered past the parliament building and reached the doors of the Prime Minister’s residence on 26 Baghramyan Avenue. Here, the organizer of the protests, leader of the Civil Contract party, Nikol Pashinyan...
In the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, a protest action is being held against the appointment of ex-President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan as Prime Minister of the country, on April 16 the action turned into clashes between the participants and the police. During the clashes, 46 people were injured, among them one of the leaders of the protest and 6 ...
In the United States, an Armenian soldier saved the life of the American Republican politician Mark Kirk. Kirk himself said this during the receipt of the Medal of Honor of the National Assembly, writes Voice of America. Having arrived in Armenia several years ago as an ordinary American congressman, Mark Kirk visited the border to ...
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said that the inhabitants of his country should strive to "return to historical lands", among which he mentioned the capital of Armenia, Yerevan. He made this statement during a speech at the congress of the ruling party of the country "Yeni Azerbaijan", where Alieva in ...
The Russian language now has the status of a foreign language in Armenia, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic Levon Mkrtchyan said in an interview with TASS. According to the minister, “the only state language in Armenia is and will remain the Armenian language, since we are an independent, sovereign state.” "This…