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.
A group of Armenian lawyers have demanded a corruption investigation into Finance Minister Vahe Hovannisian, pointing to his personal business deals, notably an interest-free $1 million loan received by him.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian expressed confidence on Thursday that a government panel headed by her will execute Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s order to draft a new constitution for Armenia by the end of 2026.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that an outspoken pro-government lawmaker who has declined his “requests” to resign from the Armenian parliament must be prosecuted and stripped of his seat.
An outspoken Armenian parliamentarian has been ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party after declining Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s “requests” to resign from the National Assembly.
An Armenian pro-government parliamentarian on Monday publicly ruled out his resignation from the National Assembly sought by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance has ousted one of the members of its parliamentary group who said last month that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s removal from power is not on its agenda.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has confirmed that he told the head of Armenia’s judicial oversight body, Karen Andreasian, to resign last week, saying that he is unhappy with some of the decisions made by Armenian courts.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has again interrogated an outspoken pro-government lawmaker who seems to be defying reported government orders to resign from the parliament.
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