A senior member of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party insisted on Tuesday that it is not trying to buy votes in a large community west of Yerevan that will elect a new local government on November 16.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday blamed Armenia’s former governments for his administration’s failure to significantly reduce poverty in the country during his more than seven-year rule.
The Armenian Apostolic Church has accused authorities of illegally stripping it of access to a medieval monastery where a defrocked priest held on Sunday a liturgy attended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigorian, has received a visiting delegation from Azerbaijan that comprised individuals who defended or even participated in a nine-month blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh that preceded Baku’s September 2023 recapture of the region.
Amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II, the Armenian parliament approved on Wednesday government-backed legislation allowing authorities to halt broadcasts of a TV channel controlled by the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Armenian election monitors on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party of trying to bribe voters in a large community west of Yerevan ahead of an upcoming local election.
Amid a continuing military buildup in Azerbaijan, the Armenian government announced on Thursday plans to cut its defense expenditures by more than 15 percent next year.
The Armenian government abruptly rescinded on Thursday its decision to pay a U.S. law firm $3.2 million to represent it in international arbitration hearings on the legality of its seizure of a company owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian.
Amid a continuing military buildup in Azerbaijan, the Armenian government has announced plans to end significant annual increases in its defense expenditures that followed the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian government will pay a U.S. law firm $3.2 million to represent it during international arbitration hearings on the legality of its seizure of Armenia’s national electric utility owned by a jailed critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A newly emerging Armenian opposition group has moved to distance itself from the country’s former leaders as it prepares to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian and his family have filed a $500 million compensation claim against the Armenian government over an investment dispute concerning Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA), a private utility effectively taken over by the state earlier this summer.
The government announced on Thursday plans to sell its minority stake in one of Armenia’s three mobile phone operators which was donated to it by the company’s current foreign owners last year.
A company importing mobile phones and re-exporting many of them to Russia became Armenia’s number one corporate taxpayer in the first half of this year, continuing to take advantage of Western sanctions against Moscow.
Ignoring an injunction issued by an international arbitration body, Armenia’s government has replaced more senior executives of the national electric utility owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian and his family.
The Armenian government gave more indications on Thursday that it will not comply with an international arbitration panel’s order to stop the ongoing seizure of Armenia’s national electric utility owned by a jailed critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Armenian authorities appointed on Friday an “interim manager” of the national electric utility owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian in what is widely seen as the first step towards its effective seizure and possible sale to other investors.
The prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used by most vehicles in Armenia have jumped by over 40 percent in recent days amid reports about serious hurdles to its import from Russia via neighboring Georgia.
Law-enforcement authorities raided the Yerevan offices of jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Tashir Group on Wednesday as the Armenian parliament approved a controversial government bill paving the way for the seizure of its biggest asset: the national electric utility.
A Russian-Armenian billionaire arrested two weeks ago right after criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has moved to file an international lawsuit against the Armenian government over its plans to seize Armenia’s national electric utility owned by him.
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