Armenian authorities have detained a retired military officer on charges of spying for Azerbaijan.
The two opposition groups that campaigned against the passage of sweeping constitutional amendments that will transform Armenia from a semipresidential into a parliamentary republic rejected the official outcome of a nationwide referendum, saying the vote was falsified.
With drums and whistles, opposition activists took to the streets of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, after polls closed in a referendum they say is a power grab by President Serzh Sarkisian. (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
Azerbaijani officials say one of their army officers has been killed as a result of a shoot-out along the contact line with Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Hundreds of protesters were gathering in central Yerevan on December 7 to demonstrate against the declared results of a referendum on whether to change Armenia’s constitution -- transforming the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government.
Polls have opened in Armenia as voters weigh in on a referendum on a government-backed proposal to switch from a presidential to a parliamentary form of government.
On December 6, Armenian voters are being called upon to approve or reject a packet of constitutional amendments that the country's leadership says are intended as a further step toward democratization and facilitating a peaceful transfer of power.
Separatist officials of Nagorno-Karabakh say one soldier of the unrecognized territory was killed in the latest clashes with Azerbaijani armed forces.
At least 3,000 protesters have rallied in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, against proposed constitutional reforms they say could extend President Serzh Sarkisian's hold on power.
A group of Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill to parliament on holding to account anyone who denies that the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces was "genocide."
An Armenian who was serving with Russian border guards in Armenia has been found hanged.
Some 2,000 protesters have rallied in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, against constitutional reforms proposed by the government.
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