An opposition party running in Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections said on Friday that college students in the Armavir province were ordered to attend a campaign rally held there by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A genuine peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible only if it is guaranteed by major foreign powers, former President Robert Kocharian insisted on Wednesday as he campaigned for next month’s parliamentary elections.
Scores of schoolteachers and students in Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province interrupted classes on Wednesday to attend Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s election campaign rallies in what vote-monitoring groups condemned as a gross violation of Armenian law.
Former President Robert Kocharian accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of drawing Armenia into a new geopolitical “adventure” fraught with severe consequences for the country as he kicked off his Hayastan alliance’s election campaign on Friday.
An Azerbaijani government delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev visited Armenia on Wednesday for fresh talks on delimitating the border and establishing commercial ties between the two South Caucasus countries.
The prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used by most vehicles in Armenia have jumped by over 30 percent in recent days following a fresh disruption of their supplies from Russia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his Civil Contract party have made clear that despite Russia’s warnings, they will continue to pursue Armenia’s eventual membership in the European Union if they win the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Relatives of Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers killed during Azerbaijan’s September 2023 offensive are continuing to press the Armenian authorities to help rebury them in Armenia.
Iran reopened its border with Armenia on Thursday one day after partly closing it amid continuing U.S. and Israeli air strikes against the Islamic Republic.
Reportedly citing technical problems, Iran closed its border with Armenia to individual travelers early on Wednesday for the second time since the start of large-scale U.S. and Israeli air strikes against the Islamic Republic.
The first group of Armenians stranded in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states due to Iran’s war with the United States and Israel returned to Yerevan early on Tuesday on a special flight from Oman.
Following stern warnings issued by Russia, Armenia’s government has insisted that despite a U.S.-Armenian nuclear agreement finalized last week, it has still not decided which foreign company should build a new nuclear plant in the country.
Russia indicated on Thursday its readiness to restore two short sections of Armenia’s Russian-led railway network leading to the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders.
The government will continue to strengthen Armenia’s armed forces despite reaching peace agreements with Azerbaijan and cutting defense its spending this year, Defense Minister Suren Papikian insisted on Tuesday.
Unemployment in Armenia appears to remain in double digits, having shown no signs of major decrease in the past year despite official jobs data touted by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Dozens of men believed to be law-enforcement officers manhandled journalists outside Armenia’s main cathedral late on Thursday as they escorted renegade clerics who were met with a furious reception from thousands of people demonstrating in support of Catholicos Garegin II.
One political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has been appointed to the governing board of the American University of Armenia (AUA) and another hired as adjunct lecturer after the ruling Civil Contract party accused the AUA of pro-opposition bias.
Armenia’s official poverty rate has fallen in the past year but is still well above the government’s target set in 2021, according government data.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has claimed that Armenia’s public debt has more than doubled during his time in office mainly because of arms acquisitions, prompting strong rebuttals from opposition politicians and some analysts.
Amid ongoing international arbitration proceedings, the Armenian authorities took on Monday another step towards nationalizing the national electric utility owned by Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire emerging as a major opposition figure.
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