The family of Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire emerging as a major opposition figure, has accused the Armenian authorities of blocking a reduction in electricity prices in the country before seizing the national electric utility from him in June.
The European Union is ready to assist in the creation of a U.S.-administered transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia’s strategic Syunik region, a senior EU official said on Friday.
Arman Tatoyan, Armenia’s former human rights ombudsman critical of the government, officially announced on Thursday the formation of a new opposition group that will challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s general elections.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are entering a “stable and peaceful period” two months after reaching U.S.-brokered agreements in Washington, a senior Armenian official said on Thursday.
An Armenian opposition party led by former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian made clear on Wednesday that it will not team up with former President Serzh Sarkisian again to participate in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Ignoring Nikol Pashinian’s objections, Azerbaijan has continued to describe as “Zangezur corridor” a special transit route for Azerbaijan which the Armenian prime minister pledged to open during a recent summit in Washington.
Armenia’s leadership remains reluctant to publicize past international proposals to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in response to calls by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and other opposition leaders blaming it for the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s police and Investigative Committee sacked on Friday two of their top officials in the Armavir province where the opposition head of a major local community was shot dead earlier this week.
In a renewed war of words with Nikol Pashinian, former President Ter-Petrosian on Wednesday again challenged the Armenian prime minister to publicize all peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh made by international mediators before the 2020 war.
Armenian opposition figures and Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leaders visited a military cemetery in Yerevan on Friday on the second anniversary of an Azerbaijani offensive that restored Baku’s full control over Karabakh and displaced its ethnic Armenian population.
A former senior official fired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian last week reiterated on Wednesday that the Armenian authorities must reverse their controversial seizure of the national electric utility owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian.
Supporters of jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian officially launched on Friday his anti-government movement which they said will spawn a political party ahead of Armenia’s parliamentary elections due in June 2026.
Armenia will hold next month more talks with the United States and Azerbaijan on practical modalities of opening a transit corridor to the Azerbaijani Nakhichevan exclave through a strategic Armenian region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday.
Armenia will change its constitution to meet Azerbaijan’s condition for the signing of a bilateral peace treaty, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in televised remarks publicized on Wednesday.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk met with Armenian leaders in Yerevan on Wednesday for talks that were expected to touch upon their controversial decision to let the United States administer a transit corridor for Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government officially confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump will host Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for peace talks at the White House on Friday.
There were more reports on Tuesday of U.S. President Donald Trump planning to host talks between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday.
The United States, the European Union and Russia have welcomed fresh face-to-face talks held by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Abi Dhabi on Thursday for fresh talks on ending the long-running conflict between their countries.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry did not deny on Thursday a report that the United States wants an American company to handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian territory.
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