U.S. immigration authorities appear to have detained a notorious Armenian blogger with political ambitions who is wanted in Armenia for alleged fraud, extortion and calls for violence.
A leader of France’s influential Armenian community critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Thursday that Armenia’s government lifted last year an entry ban imposed on him thanks to intervention from French President Emmanuel Macron.
The top leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that its affiliates in the United States are lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to help the Karabakh Armenians’ safely return to their homeland.
Armenian opposition leaders on Monday rejected as untrue French Ambassador Olivier Decottignies’s claim that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was not the first leader of Armenia to recognize Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia must seek to revive the Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh if it is to prevent another Azerbaijani military aggression, a former political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian said on Monday that he has no plans to leave active politics and will continue to lead the main opposition Hayastan alliance in its declared efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The long list of accusations levelled by Azerbaijan against Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan includes a plot to assassinate Azerbaijani diplomats serving abroad.
Contradicting his earlier claims, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has acknowledged that international mediators presented Armenia and Azerbaijan with an updated plan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict one year after he came to power in 2018.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed confidence on Wednesday that the new U.S. administration will stick to a U.S.-Armenian document on “strategic partnership” signed just days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Ignoring stern warnings from Russia, the National Assembly approved on Wednesday a government-backed bill calling for the “start of a process of Armenia's accession to the European Union.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with US Vice President JD Vance late on Thursday at the end of a four-day visit to Washington which prompted questions from his domestic critics.
The Armenian government remained on Thursday in no rush to try to end a continuing general strike that has paralyzed the country’s largest metallurgical enterprise and number one corporate taxpayer.
Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise remained paralyzed by a strike on Tuesday as its management and striking workers failed to reach any agreements during their first face-to-face meeting.
Production operations at Armenia’s largest mining enterprise remained disrupted for a fourth consecutive day on Monday due to a walkout by hundreds of its employees demanding a 50 percent pay increase and better working conditions.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Friday that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, responding to a wave of condemnation of his comments on the subject made late last week.
Senior law-enforcement and military officials spent more than four hours on Thursday answering questions from relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have insisted that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in remarks that sparked an uproar from Armenian historians, opposition figures and retired diplomats.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has provoked a storm of criticism from his political opponents and historians after questioning the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and the decades-long Armenian campaign for its international recognition.
A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan has said that the Armenian government is doing little to try to secure the release of his client and seven other former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh standing trial in Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government would not explicitly say on Wednesday whether it is planning to make more territorial concessions to Azerbaijan as a result of the latest agreement on delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
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