Law-enforcement authorities have reportedly a launched a criminal investigation into financial irregularities allegedly committed by Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party.
Sparking fresh controversy, speaker Alen Simonian has given Armenian parliament members and staffers additional hefty bonuses worth their monthly salaries.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities summoned Samvel Shahramanian for questioning and impounded a car used by him on Friday one week after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian threatened to crack down on Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leader.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has ordered an ad hoc body set up by him to start drafting a new Armenian constitution amid Azerbaijan’s continuing demands for such a legislative change.
Amid strong criticism from human rights groups, Armenian authorities have brought criminal charges against 12 people in connection with last Wednesday’s clashes in Yerevan between riot police and protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
The Armenian government postponed its weekly meeting on Thursday as protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation again rallied outside its main building at Yerevan’s Republic Square.
An independent audit has found irregularities in the ruling Civil Contract party’s financial operations following two journalistic investigations that called into question the legality of its election campaign funding.
Twenty-seven supporters of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian were set free on Monday three days after being arrested during an antigovernment demonstration in Yerevan that ended in scuffles with riot police.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended on Wednesday police officers that tried to physically stop Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, from visiting a key national memorial on Tuesday.
The exiled mayors of Stepanakert and another town in Nagorno-Karabakh were arrested and indicted in Yerevan over the weekend after signaling support for ongoing street protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday accused the Armenian Apostolic Church of meddling in politics and said the government should impose more taxes on it in response to antigovernment protests led by one of its archbishops.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian met with exiled leaders and ordinary refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of ongoing consultations aimed at ramping up momentum for his opposition-backed bid to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Police made at least 14 arrests on Monday as they confronted angry protesters trying to enter an Armenian border village that is losing part of its territory as a result of the Armenian government’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday effectively joined other opposition parties in voicing support for street protests in Yerevan against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Law-enforcement authorities have pointedly declined to say whether they are investigating Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that individuals recruited by foreign intelligence services are involved in ongoing antigovernment protests in Armenia.
An Armenian cleric leading the weeklong antigovernment protests in Yerevan remained reluctant on Tuesday to name a candidate who he believes should replace Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will not attend Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fifth term as president scheduled for Tuesday, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
Police clashed with residents of an Armenian border village and detained other people, including an opposition parliamentarian, on Friday amid ongoing protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s decision to hand over four border areas to Azerbaijan.
Former Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian and other retired senior diplomats on Monday strongly criticized the Armenian government’s foreign policy, saying that it has only added to grave national security threats facing the country.
Armenia has denied holding any “substantive or technical” talks with the United Kingdom on the possibility of accepting illegal migrants expelled from that country after a British newspaper reported on this, citing “leaked” documents.
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