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.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party on Friday defended the abundance of former political allies of Armenia’s previous leadership among its candidates running in upcoming local elections.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian lambasted Armenia’s current leadership and deplored its track record during an international video conference organized by Russia’s ruling party on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has no plans to raise the national minimum wage before 2023 despite higher-than-projected inflation in the country, a senior official said on Friday.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Friday that it will rally supporters in Yerevan soon in an effort to thwart what it described as more Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan planned by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Dozens of supporters of the jailed opposition-affiliated mayor of a major community in Armenia’s Syunik province were reportedly taken to a local police station for questioning one day after he was reelected in a weekend vote.
Armenia’s top defense and security officials appear reluctant to brief lawmakers on lingering tensions along the country’s border with Azerbaijan that have caused serious disruptions in Armenian-Iranian trade.
Iran’s Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri reaffirmed his country’s readiness to expand relations with Armenia as he visited Yerevan on Wednesday amid continuing tensions between Tehran and Baku.
The ruling Civil Contract party confirmed on Friday plans to pass legislation that would block further attempts to install an outspoken opposition lawmaker as deputy chairman of a key standing committee of Armenia’s parliament.
Pro-government lawmakers dismissed on Wednesday U.S. democracy watchdog Freedom House’s strong criticism of recently enacted legislation allowing Armenian authorities prosecute people insulting state officials.
Parliamentary leaders of the ruling Civil Contract party and Armenia’s two leading opposition blocs have reached no agreement so far on practical modalities of investigating the causes and outcome of last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian downplayed on Thursday the significance of a roadblock which Azerbaijan has set up on the main highway connecting Armenia with Iran to check and tax Iranian vehicles.
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