Law-enforcement authorities are pressing criminal charges against eight more participants of anti-government rallies organized by the Armenian opposition for the past month.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian reaffirmed on Tuesday the ruling Civil Contract party’s plans to block an opposition resolution rejecting any peace accord that would restore Azerbaijan’s control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian opposition on Wednesday blocked more government buildings in Yerevan and pledged to continue its daily street protests aimed at toppling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again claimed to have turned Armenia into an established democracy on Friday as the country's main opposition groups continued daily demonstrations demanding his resignation.
Riot police on Thursday refrained from mass arrests of participants of daily opposition demonstrations in Yerevan aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament has threatened to strip its opposition members boycotting sessions of the National Assembly and leading ongoing anti-government protests in Yerevan of their seats.
The Armenian police made more than 400 arrests on Tuesday as opposition supporters again blocked roads across Yerevan in continuing protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
Police detained more than 90 people on Monday to break up fresh motorcade rallies organized by the Armenian opposition as part of its ongoing civil disobedience campaign against the government.
Armenian opposition leaders and their supporters blocked a key government building in Yerevan on Friday on the 13th day of their street protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
Major anti-government protests continued in Armenia for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with opposition leaders vowing that there will be no letup in their efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenian press freedom groups have condemned the head of a security agency that provides bodyguards to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other senior officials for reportedly assaulting two journalists during an opposition demonstration in Yerevan.
The Constitutional Court has refused to strike down a controversial law that made it a crime to insult Armenian officials and public figures.
An Armenian book publisher known for his conciliatory views on Azerbaijan and Turkey was assaulted late on Wednesday by opposition supporters holding an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan.
Riot police made at least 18 arrests on Wednesday as they scuffled with opposition activists holding small-scale protests across Yerevan to try to drum up popular support for an opposition bid to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Thursday criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and warned him against helping Azerbaijan regain control over the Armenian-populated territory.
Armenian opposition parliamentarians were barred from entering Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday to continue their campaign against far-reaching Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s two main opposition groups said on Tuesday that their lawmakers will not attend this week’s parliament sittings and will visit Nagorno-Karabakh instead as part of their campaign to prevent far-reaching Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia has not only stopped being the guarantor of Nagorno-Karabakh’s security but is also not providing the Armenian-populated territory with adequate diplomatic support, a senior official in Stepanakert complained on Monday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership and population will never agree to live under Azerbaijani rule, a senior official in Stepanakert reiterated on Thursday.
The Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Tuesday that it will deploy more soldiers in and around a local village that was occupied by Azerbaijani forces last week.
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