Armenia’s constitution does not contain territorial claims to Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reiterated on Tuesday in a continuing effort to convince Baku to drop its main precondition for signing a peace treaty with Yerevan.
Activists representing refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Monday to demand that law-enforcement authorities tackle hate speech against them which they said is incited by the Armenian government.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party has still not clarified whether it will accept opposition demands for an ethics inquiry into a senior pro-government parliamentarian who insulted a journalist last month.
A high-ranking Armenian cleric has praised former President Robert Kocharian but lambasted his successor Serzh Sarkisian, drawing the ire of the latter’s political allies.
Anti-graft activists expressed on Tuesday serious concern over an apparent lack of progress in a nearly two-year criminal investigation into a now defunct state fund that was tasked with attracting foreign investment in Armenia.
A parliament deputy from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party announced his resignation on Tuesday two days after appearing drunk in public and insulting a journalist.
A visibly drunk member of Armenia’s parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract party swore at a reporter late on Sunday as he roamed streets in downtown Gyumri during a tense local election held there.
Thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Saturday to demand that Armenia’s government stop discriminating against them, champion their right to safely return to their homeland on the international stage and keep up housing allowances paid to many of them.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Thursday allowed prosecutors to bring criminal charges against two opposition lawmakers who reject them as politically motivated.
Journalists accredited in the Armenian parliament on Friday called for a senior pro-government lawmaker to be stripped of his seat for publicly insulting one of their colleagues in an incident strongly condemned by opposition figures and press freedom groups.
Prosecutor-General Anna Vardapetian has asked the Armenian parliament to allow criminal charges to be brought against two of its opposition members.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian is facing another corruption scandal after it emerged that an Armenian government agency previously headed by him invested in 2023 over 1.5 billion drams ($3.8 million) in an obscure company run by a friend of his wife.
Former Presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian have indirectly accused each other of helping Nikol Pashinian come to power in 2018 in an escalating war of words between Armenia’s two main opposition groups led by them.
Small-scale traders in Yerevan and Gyumri resumed on Monday their protests against a sharp increase in the key tax paid by them, dismissing a conditional six-month reprieve offered to them by the Armenian government.
Amid Armenia’s lingering tensions with Russia, a senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party has visited Ukraine and praised his Ukrainian colleagues for their work in the face of “difficult conditions.”
Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership on Wednesday demanded that parliament speaker Alen Simonian apologize for lambasting Karabakh Armenians for fleeing the region following Azerbaijan’s large-scale military assault in September 2023.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian, a key political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, on Tuesday lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population for fleeing the region following Azerbaijan’s large-scale military assault in September 2023.
Two lawmakers expelled from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party late last year pledged to strive to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as they held the founding congress of their new party at the weekend.
An extraterritorial corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through a key Armenian region would be bad for both Armenia and Iran, a senior Iranian diplomat said on Thursday, reaffirming his country’s position on the issue.
The extended family of Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian is facing fresh media scrutiny after it emerged that some of its members purchased an expensive three-story mansion late last year.
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