A court in Yerevan has ordered Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to apologize through his spokeswoman for her disparaging comments about Armenia’s jailed former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian and his fugitive sons.
Opposition lawmakers continued to deplore on Wednesday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s failure to secure the release of Armenian soldiers and civilians held by Azerbaijan more than two months after the Russian-brokered ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The trial of former President Robert Kocharian and three other former senior Armenian officials facing coup charges resumed on Tuesday nearly four months after being effectively interrupted by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan ordered a law-enforcement agency on Tuesday to release the mayor of the Armenian town of Goris who was arrested after calling for civil disobedience against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris was arrested early on Monday just hours after urging local residents to block a highway and not allow Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to visit their region bordering Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government has commissioned 600,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines from World Health Organization-backed COVAX Facility and hopes to receive their first batch in February, a senior official said on Friday.
Armenian prosecutors have started scrutinizing assets of more than 200 people to determine whether they were acquired illegally and can be confiscated under a controversial law enacted earlier this year.
President Armen Sarkissian asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday to help free Armenian soldiers and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity after the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A drop in coronavirus infections recorded in recent weeks has reduced the burden on Armenia’s hospitals struggling to cope with the pandemic, Health Minister Arsen Torosian said on Thursday.
Parents and other relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh appealed to Russia on Tuesday to help find them or recover their bodies left in Azerbaijani-controlled territory.
Armenian prosecutors have appealed against courts’ decisions to free former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian and two other opposition figures facing coup charges denied by them.
Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), could be stripped of his parliament seat after being accused by a anti-corruption state body of illegally engaging in entrepreneurial activity.
A court in Yerevan ordered on Monday the release of another opposition figure arrested on coup charges at the weekend.
Artur Vanetsian, a former National Security Service (NSS) director leading an opposition party, was released from custody late on Sunday despite being charged with plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and overthrow Armenia’s government.
Opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian was arrested yesterday on suspicion of organizing a rally in violation of the law, his lawyer Yerem Sargsian wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
Former director of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsian, who currently leads the opposition Homeland party, has been detained, his party says.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that Baku is ready to halt hostilities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh if Armenia accepts a framework peace accord put forward by the United States, Russia and France.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading the opposition Prosperous Armenia (BHK), was released on bail on Thursday almost one month after being arrested on charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijani troops of executing two ethnic Armenian prisoners of war captured during the ongoing fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Amnesty International has condemned what it described as the apparent use by the Azerbaijani army of cluster bombs in the shelling of civilian areas in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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