Police in Armenia detained early on Thursday dozens of people in a border village in the northern Tavush province trying to prevent the controversial handover of adjacent border areas to Azerbaijan.
Political allies Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian are stepping up scathing personal attacks on a senior clergyman leading nearly two-week protests in Armenia’s northern Tavush province against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan made by the government.
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament rejected on Tuesday an opposition initiative to debate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan that have sparked angry protests across Armenia.
A company importing and selling mobile phones has become Armenia’s number one corporate taxpayer this year in what appears to be a result of Western economic sanctions against Russia.
Marija Pejcinovic Buric, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, pledged continued support of her organization to Armenia as she visited Yerevan on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again accused Russia of not honoring its security commitments to Armenia ahead of his trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials criticized by Moscow.
The Armenian government has blocked the broadcasts to Armenia of political talk shows aired by one of Russia’s two main state TV channels following their pro-Kremlin host Vladimir Solovyov’s repeated criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s policies.
Hundreds of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrated in Yerevan on Wednesday to demand that Armenia’s government expand its aid programs for them and seek international security guarantees for their return to their homeland.
The Armenian parliament approved on Wednesday the government’s decision to essentially grant diplomatic immunity to members of a monitoring mission launched by the European Union along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan a year ago.
Armenian civic organizations and legal experts joined by their exiled colleagues from Nagorno-Karabakh denounced the Armenian government on Monday for expressing readiness to withdraw international lawsuits filed against Azerbaijan after the 2020 war.
Armenia’s leadership is considering applying for membership in the European Union, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told Turkish state television in an interview aired at the weekend.
Armenia should reduce its heavy dependence on Russia for trade by forging closer commercial ties with “all corners of the world,” the country’s new economy minister said on Thursday amid Yerevan’s deepening rift with Moscow.
Several Armenian cargo companies claimed on Wednesday that Russia is preparing to block imports of goods from Armenia through its sole border crossing with Georgia amid Moscow’s mounting tensions with Yerevan.
Edmon Marukian, a former opposition leader who has worked as Armenia’s ambassador-at-large for the last two years, has stepped down, saying that he disagrees with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s foreign policy.
Davit Tonoyan, a jailed former Armenian defense minister, accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday of overseeing criminal proceedings launched against him more than two years ago.
Just days after saying that Azerbaijan is “very likely” to invade Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Tuesday that the foreign ministers of the two states will make progress at their upcoming talks in Berlin.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is planning to visit Armenia next week amid the South Caucasus country’s mounting tensions with Russia, a diplomatic source told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
The National Security Service (NSS) denied on Friday claims that Russian border guards prevent European Union monitors from inspecting a section of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan where four Armenian soldiers were killed last week.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian announced his resignation on Wednesday two weeks after one of his deputies and several other subordinates were arrested on corruption charges strongly denied by him.
Four Armenian soldiers were killed and another wounded when their positions on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan came under cross-border fire early on Tuesday.
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