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.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will not attend an upcoming meeting of his post-Soviet counterparts, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.
The European Union is considering providing “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia, the head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, Vassilis Maragos, said on Thursday, repeating a statement made by him four months ago.
An Armenian human rights organization has again demanded a criminal investigation into journalistic investigations that called into question the legality of the financing of the ruling Civil Contract party’s election campaigns.
Two months after suspending its flights, an airline declared by the Armenian government the “national carrier” has been temporarily stripped of its operating license, moving closer to liquidation.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has downplayed the findings of two journalistic investigations questioning the legality of the financing of his Civil Contract party’s election campaigns.
Edmon Marukian, a former Armenian opposition leader who worked as ambassador-at-large until this month, has criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for continuing to make “unilateral” concessions to Azerbaijan even after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Another journalistic investigation has called into question the legality of the financing of the ruling Civil Contract party’s election campaigns.
Armenia’s jailed former Defense Minister David Tonoyan has refused to appear behind closed doors in front of a parliament commission conducting a probe into a 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh in which the Armenian side suffered a defeat to Azerbaijan.
Nearly three dozen lawmakers from the ruling Civil Contract party have moved to dismiss their opposition colleague Taguhi Tovmasian as chairwoman of the Armenian parliament’s standing committee on human rights.
Pro-government lawmakers shouted verbal abuse and threats at an opposition candidate for the vacant post of Armenia’s human rights defender as he harshly criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government on Tuesday.
An opposition member of Armenia’s parliament was released from custody on Monday three days after punching a pro-government colleague during an ill-tempered meeting of a National Assembly committee.
An opposition member of Armenia’s parliament was arrested on Friday after brawling with a pro-government colleague in disputed circumstances.
Yerevan’s mayor, Hrachya Sargsian, stepped down on Friday after only 15 months in office.
The new secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) visited Armenia on Thursday amid Yerevan’s growing estrangement from the Russian-led military alliance of six ex-Soviet states.
Hundreds of students of a state-run university in Yerevan boycotted classes on Wednesday to protest against the Armenian government’s decision to effectively depose its recently reelected rector.
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