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.
Causing widespread outrage, Armenian law-enforcement authorities indicted and briefly arrested over the weekend a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh who decried and disseminated a video of several foreigners signing an Azerbaijani song in Yerevan’s central square.
The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigorian, expressed concern on Thursday over Azerbaijan’s renewed threats of military action against Yerevan.
A representative of Armenia’s political leadership on Monday defended its failure to condemn or react otherwise to the trials of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh which began in Azerbaijan on Friday.
Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice.
Armenian analysts cautioned on Wednesday against excessive expectations from a U.S.-Armenian agreement to upgrade bilateral relations to “strategic partnership,” saying that Washington did not pledge to give Yerevan security guarantees or significant military aid.
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