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.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian insisted late on Tuesday that Armenia has no choice but to remain allied to Russia even if it does not get enough support from Moscow.
The Azerbaijani military threatened to take “resolute” actions in Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday two days after a shootout outside Stepanakert left three Karabakh Armenian police officers and two Azerbaijani soldiers dead.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Friday praised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for advocating an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal that would respect the Karabakh Armenians’ right to self-determination.
More than one month after the unexpected resignation of Armenia’s state ombudswoman, Kristine Grigorian, the ruling Civil Contract party has still not nominated a new human rights defender.
The National Assembly approved on Wednesday a government proposal to nearly double the salaries of Armenia’s prosecutors.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday that they will likely fully reopen all local schools next week even if Azerbaijan continues to block Armenia’s natural gas supplies to the region cut off from the outside world.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Wednesday allowed prosecutors to bring criminal charges against Seyran Ohanian, the parliamentary leader of the main opposition Hayastan alliance.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed readiness to host a fresh meeting of his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts in a bid to break the current deadlock in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Armenian pro-government lawmakers dismissed on Friday Russia’s strong criticism of the European Union’s decision to send a new team of monitors to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan.
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