The Armenian opposition will not end or suspend its month-long street protests despite failing so far to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, one of its leaders said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian rejected opposition demands for his resignation and again blamed Armenia’s former leaders for the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday amid continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Armenia’s leading opposition alliances began on Monday coordinated small-scale demonstrations in Yerevan in preparation for mass protests aimed at toppling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Opposition lawmakers on Thursday accused Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party of obstructing parliamentary hearings on Turkish-Armenian relations in order to avoid upsetting Turkey.
Armenia’s leadership again indicated on Wednesday that it did not ask Russian peacekeepers to bar a group of Armenian opposition lawmakers from entering Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia is ready to open more Russian classes in its schools, Education Minister Vahram Dumanian said on Tuesday, citing a recent influx of migrants from Russia.
Pro-government lawmakers on Friday pushed through the parliament a bill that allows Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to appoint an acting mayor of Vanadzor, Armenia’s third largest city where his party was defeated in a local election held in December.
An Armenian opposition alliance is seeking an amendment in the parliament regulations to make the country’s prime minister and foreign minister specifically accountable to lawmakers on international negotiations that they conduct.
Two conscripts have been found dead at different locations in Armenia’s southern Syunik province, according to the country’s military authorities.
Azerbaijani forces continued to shell a village in eastern Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday, wounding one of its residents and causing others to flee their homes.
After deciding to boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia’s leading opposition group has called on the National Assembly to set up another, non-partisan body for that purpose.
Law-enforcement authorities have launched criminal proceedings against a young political activist who has branded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian a “nation-destroying scourge” and accused him of treason.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political team have not yet decided whom they will install as Armenia’s new president, a senior member of the ruling Civil Contract party said on Thursday.
The opposition Pativ Unem bloc said on Wednesday that it will demand a parliamentary ethics inquiry into a pro-government lawmaker who branded journalists critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as “prostitutes.”
Armenian press freedom groups on Friday strongly condemned a pro-government parliamentarian for branding journalists very critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as “prostitutes.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has sacked an Armenian provincial governor and replaced him by his 31-year-old son.
The Armenian government will introduce after all a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to cultural and leisure venues, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian announced on Wednesday.
Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian accused Armenia’s political leaders of betraying the goals of the 2018 “velvet revolution” that brought them to power as he was ousted on Wednesday by the municipal assembly controlled by the ruling Civil Contract party.
Armenian analysts and opposition politicians have criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for appointing a 31-year-old political ally lacking diplomatic experience to represent Armenia in upcoming negotiations with Turkey.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance has decided to boycott sessions of international parliamentary bodies until Armenian authorities lift travel bans imposed on its lawmakers facing what it sees as politically motivated charges.
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