An Armenia court on November 24 opened a controversial trail against a human rights activist from the minority Yazidi community over comments he made in an interview, despite international concerns about his prosecution.
Armenia’s political leadership continued to downplay on Friday the effective closure of an Azerbaijani-controlled section of a strategic highway connecting the country to neighboring Iran.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian faced fresh opposition allegations of a sellout on Thursday after Azerbaijan expanded border controls at a section of the main highway connecting Armenia to Iran, effectively making it off limits to Armenian vehicles.
Former President Robert Kocharian pledged to topple Armenia’s current government “through barricades or elections” on Monday as his opposition alliance launched what it called a “nationwide resistance” campaign with a rally held in Yerevan.
Nearly three weeks after his death, the body of Vano Siradeghian, a prominent politician and former interior minister who fled Armenia over two decades ago, has still not been repatriated and buried.
Armenia is discussing with Russia ways of normalizing its relations with Turkey, a senior Armenian official said on Thursday.
The Armenian government reacted over the weekend to reports that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow next month to sign two more far-reaching agreements.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party failed to unseat the jailed opposition-linked mayor of a major community in Armenia’s Syunik province and was also defeated in Gyumri in local elections held on Sunday.
Armenians contracting COVID-19 after refusing to get vaccinated against the disease may soon be required to pay for their treatment in hospitals, a senior government official warned on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian described his latest meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very productive” but did not divulge its details early on Wednesday.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has refused to shed more light on corruption charges brought by it against former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan, two generals and an arms dealer arrested in recent weeks.
An Azerbaijani passenger plane flew over Armenia on Wednesday for the first time in seven years.
The National Security Service (NSS) confirmed on Thursday that it has arrested former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan in an ongoing criminal investigation into supplies of allegedly faulty ammunition to Armenia’s armed forces.
A French company managing Armenia’s water distribution network has asked public utility regulators to allow it to raise the price of drinking water in the country by over 24 percent.
Azerbaijani forces have set up a checkpoint to stop and reportedly tax Iranian commercial trucks using a strategic road that passes through areas along Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province controversially handed over to Azerbaijan after last year’s war.
Armenia and Turkey are not yet holding any negotiations on normalizing their relations, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Families of Armenian soldiers killed in last year’s war with Azerbaijan have expressed outrage at a “large-scale and colorful” celebration of Armenia’s upcoming Independence Day promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian pro-government parliamentarian on Monday hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s stated readiness to normalize Turkey’s relations with Armenia.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has threatened to sue Khachatur Sukiasian, a millionaire businessman and member of the pro-government Civil Contract faction in parliament, over what his lawyers describe as defamation damaging his good name.
The mayor of an Armenian village bordering Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave was wounded on Monday night as a result of fresh shootouts between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops stationed at the border section.
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