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.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian said on Tuesday that a government panel headed by her will draft a new constitution for Armenia before the country’s next general elections expected in June 2026.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will call fresh parliamentary elections in the coming months, a lawmaker ousted from his Civil Contract party last month said on Monday.
Amid an uproar from his political opponents and media, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian said on Monday that he will pay the municipal administration about $20,000 to cover the exorbitant cost of his recent flight to the United States.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian has branded Armenian media outlets as a “garbage dump” after one of them effectively accused him and his family of illicit enrichment.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has launched a fresh criminal investigation into a lawmaker ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party after defying Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s “request” to resign from the parliament.
An Armenian parliamentarian pledged renewed allegiance to the ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday just hours after freezing his party membership in protest against its crackdown on another pro-government lawmaker who has refused to resign from the National Assembly.
A lawmaker facing strong government pressure to resign from the Armenian parliament has demanded a criminal investigation into the disclosure of his personal communication which is stored in his mobile phone controversially confiscated by a law-enforcement agency.
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