A former mayor of Vanadzor, who was arrested in December 2021 after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a municipal election, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Wednesday at the end of his corruption trial.
Interior Minister Arpine Sargsian downplayed on Thursday a 16 percent increase in armed robberies, shootouts and other firearm-related crimes registered by the Armenian police last year.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday that he sees no “grounds” for the outbreak of another war with Azerbaijan when he commented on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest threats of military action against Armenia.
Russia has warned that Armenia will pay a huge economic price if it strives to join the European Union.
In a move that prompted fresh warnings from Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government officially announced on Thursday plans to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
The Armenian government said on Wednesday that it has told a private entertainment company to return almost $6 million in government funding it received in 2023 to organize U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg’s concert in Yerevan that never took place.
A senior executive of a Canadian-based company said on Friday that it is close to securing $150 million in additional funding needed for starting much-delayed mining operations at Armenia’s massive Amulsar gold deposit by the end of next year.
An Armenian court has refused to consider Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian’s libel suit against a media outlet that effectively accused him and his extended family of illicit enrichment.
Five days after reopening its embassy in Damascus, Armenia resumed on Thursday the work of its consulate in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo evacuated late last month during a rebel offensive that overthrew Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Tuesday refused to provide further information about what it called last week a “possible attempt” to illegally enter the country from neighboring Turkey which alarmed residents of an Armenian border village.
Armenia evacuated its embassy from Damascus as Islamist-led rebels entered the Syrian capital and overthrew the country’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad at the weekend.
Azerbaijan has reportedly turned down U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s proposal to organize more peace talks between his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts.
Armenia’s government is not in a position to help ethnic Armenian residents of Aleppo flee the northern Syrian city following its unexpected capture by Islamist rebels, an official in Yerevan acknowledged on Monday.
Armenia’s government is not doing enough to get Azerbaijan to free eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and other Armenian captives, Karabakh’s exiled human rights ombudsman said on Friday.
A local human rights group is making last-ditch attempts to stop Armenian authorities from extraditing to Belarus a man who was arrested right after entering Armenia from neighboring Georgia in March.
Protesters led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian picketed the headquarters of Armenian prosecutors on Wednesday to demand criminal charges against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as part of their renewed campaign for his removal from power.
Armenian opposition figures and Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leaders visited a military cemetery in Yerevan on Thursday on the first anniversary of an Azerbaijani offensive that restored Baku’s full control over Karabakh and displaced its ethnic Armenian population.
Thousands of weapons given by the Armenian government to citizens during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan remain unaccounted for, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday, commenting on a sharp rise in gun violence in Armenia.
Exiled leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have pushed backed against a senior Armenian official’s claims that their government bodies have ceased to exist since Azerbaijan regained full control of the region last September.
The delimitation and demarcation of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijani will not necessarily be based on a 1991 declaration championed by Yerevan, according to a new agreement signed by the two countries on Friday and publicized on Monday.
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