Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that he will fly to the Russian city of Sochi on October 31 to hold fresh talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that will be hosted by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
The Armenian authorities have effectively banned Konstantin Zatulin, a pro-Armenian Russian parliamentarian, from entering the country over his strong criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly trying to host a fresh meeting of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan following a series of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks organized by Western powers.
The leaders of Russia and other ex-Soviet states making up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) agreed late on Tuesday to send a fact-finding delegation to Armenia during an emergency video summit initiated by Yerevan.
Citing increased drug trafficking and other illegal cross-border activities, Russian border guards controlling Armenia’s frontier with Iran have set up checkpoints along several roads in the country’s southern Syunik province.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded on Friday to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s criticism of Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh which followed Wednesday’s deadly fighting there.
Two more Armenian Diaspora activists from Europe critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have been barred from entering Armenia.
An opposition figure prosecuted on what he sees as politically motivated charges said on Friday that his brother holding a senior position in Armenia’s Central Bank was forced out because of his political activities.
UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid has deleted a tweet about his visit to the Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan condemned by Turkey.
Echoing a statement by his foreign minister, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has linked the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations to Armenia accepting Azerbaijan's key demands.
Armenia’s government on Friday broke its eight-day silence on an entry ban imposed by it on a leader of France’s influential Armenian community critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Armenian authorities have declined to explain their decision to ban a leader of France’s influential Armenian community critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from entering Armenia.
A vocal critic of Armenia’s government arrested two months ago died during his trial in Yerevan on Friday, sparking outcry from the country’s human rights ombudswoman and opposition leaders.
Dozens of relatives of several men killed and wounded in a small community in central Armenia rallied at the weekend to demand an objective investigation into the shooting which they blame on local government-linked individuals.
The ruling Civil Contract party has drafted legislation which critics say would allow the Armenian authorities to force opposition members of local councils to elect pro-government mayors of cities and other communities.
Opposition leader Artur Vanetsian on Tuesday announced his resignation from Armenia’s parliament and the breakup of his Fatherland party’s alliance with former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK).
A senior U.S. State Department official has met with leaders of Armenia’s main opposition groups holding anti-government protests during a visit to Yerevan.
A leader of the Armenian opposition said on Friday that it is rethinking the tactics of its “resistance movement” almost six week after starting regular demonstrations aimed at toppling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Opposition parliamentarians were not allowed to attend on Wednesday an international conference in Yerevan organized by Armenia’s Constitutional Court and the Council of Europe.
Law-enforcement authorities are pressing criminal charges against eight more participants of anti-government rallies organized by the Armenian opposition for the past month.
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