Armenia is taking out a new €80 million (about $93 million) loan from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to help cover the state budget deficit, according to a government decision adopted on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian did not deny on Thursday a report claiming that he has offered Kazakhstan a stake in a U.S.-controlled company which is due to build and manage a transit corridor for Azerbaijan passing through Armenia.
The Armenian government has not fired any principals or teachers of public schools who attended, together with their students, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign rallies during school hours in breach of Armenia’s laws.
Having failed to fulfill its 2021 pledges to significantly reduce poverty and unemployment, the Armenian government is now setting more modest socioeconomic targets for the next five years.
A prominent Armenian opposition figure arrested in the wake of the June 7 parliamentary elections was set free at the start of his trial on Friday.
Underlining its continuing drift to the West, the Armenian government pointedly declined to describe Armenia’s relations with Russia as “strategic” in a five-year policy program approved by it on Thursday.
After weeks of resistance, Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Wednesday allowed the teenage daughter of an arrested opposition politician to visit her in prison.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have raided a shopping center just outside Yerevan to effectively shut down yet another business asset of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman who challenged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in last month’s parliamentary elections.
UN human rights experts have questioned the credibility of coup charges that were brought against an outspoken Armenian archbishop and his supporters last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
The Armenian government has officially seized two of the several dozen companies belonging to Gagik Tsarukian that were effectively closed by them last week during the opposition leader’s arrest promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian denounced the Armenian authorities on Wednesday for effectively shutting down dozens of his companies as part of a post-election crackdown promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Hundreds more workers of companies owned by jailed businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian protested on Tuesday against their effective closure by the Armenian authorities.
Hundreds of employees of Gagik Tsarukian’s companies continued to demand on Monday that the Armenian authorities unblock their operations halted last week as part of a post-election crackdown on the opposition leader promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Right after an angry protest staged by its employees, the Armenian government on Thursday allowed the country’s largest cement plan owned by Gagik Tsarukian to resume operations disrupted by a government crackdown on the prominent businessman and opposition leader.
Following Russia’s threats to sharply increase the price of natural gas supplied to Armenia, the Armenian utility regulator on Wednesday blocked the Russian-owned national gas distribution network from raising its retail prices for domestic consumers until the end of this year.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals confirmed on Tuesday an 18-month prison sentence given to a police officer whose car struck and killed a pregnant woman while leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade in April 2022.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to “take out” the leaders of the three main opposition groups running in Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election as he furiously argued with a disgruntled woman during a campaign engagement in Yerevan on Monday.
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.
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