The European Union is unfit to be the lead player in brokering a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Tuesday.
Key members of an armed anti-government group that seized a police base in Yerevan in July 2016 were sent back to jail over the weekend after Armenia’s highest court upheld prison sentences handed down to them.
Armenian opposition leaders and their supporters blocked a key government building in Yerevan on Friday on the 13th day of their street protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
A traffic police officer whose car hit and killed a young woman while escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade in Yerevan was arrested again on Thursday two weeks after being released from custody.
Armenian opposition leaders and their supporters blocked the building of the Yerevan mayor’s office on Wednesday as they continued their daily rallies demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Major anti-government protests continued in Armenia for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with opposition leaders vowing that there will be no letup in their efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Hundreds of Armenian trucks have been stuck at both sides of a Russian-Georgian border checkpoint after heavy snowfalls brought traffic along the only road connecting Armenia to Russia via Georgia to a standstill.
Armenia’s economy minister has expressed his concern over current inflation trends, at the same time calling them a “global phenomenon.”
A state body overseeing Armenian courts must dismiss scores of judges this year as part of judicial reforms proclaimed by the government, Justice Minister Karen Andreasian said on Tuesday.
Health authorities in Armenia reported a record 3,536 coronavirus cases on Friday as the Omicron variant continued to rapidly spread across the country.
Armenian health authorities reported on Thursday a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases which Health Minister Anahit Avanesian blamed on the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Prosecutors said on Thursday that they are looking into former Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian’s allegations that senior officials pressured him to fire his subordinates criticizing the government and ensure preferential treatment of their cronies doing business in the Armenian capital.
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.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s right-hand man and former bodyguard became the new mayor of the town of Abovian on Friday two weeks after defeating the ruling Civil Contract party in a local election.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court this week began hearing a claim against the mandate for regular COVID-19 tests for all unvaccinated workers in the country.
Health authorities in Armenia have allowed children aged 12 and older to get vaccinated against the coronavirus with their parents’ consent.
Armenia’s health authorities reported a record 57 deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday after months of steady increases in coronavirus infections in the country of about 3 million.
Armenia’s health authorities are considering introducing a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to cultural and leisure venues, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian revealed on Monday.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has decided not to prosecute a controversial pro-government lawmaker who assaulted an opposition colleague on the parliament floor in late August.
Citing a lack of public funds, the Armenian government has largely stopped paying for major medical services provided by hospitals to a large part of the country’s population.
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