Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday accused Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leaders of spreading false claims about significant territorial concessions to Azerbaijan planned by his government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian commended Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) on Wednesday after it arrested a senior police officer suspected of killing a protester during the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s National Assembly has set up an ad hoc parliamentary commission tasked with investigating the April 2016 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gagik Tsarukian on Monday warned parliament deputies from his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) against publicly expressing their personal opinions after one of them voiced support for the indicted former President Robert Kocharian.
Two men have been arrested in Armenia on suspicion of opening fire on supporters of Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former military leader.
Samvel Babayan, a retired general seeking to run for president of Nagorno-Karabakh, has effectively accused a key political rival of organizing an armed attack on his supporters in Armenia.
The doctoral dissertation of an Armenian judge, who freed former President Robert Kocharian from custody last August, may have come under scrutiny for political reasons, a senior government official said on Monday.
The National Assembly held on Friday hearings on the introduction of “transitional justice” in Armenia which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian regards as a major element of judicial reforms planned by him.
Armenian prosecutors have decided to appeal against a judge’s controversial decision to suspend former President Robert Kocharian’s trial and request an important clarification from the Constitutional Court.
The president of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakian, insisted on Monday that he is unaware of the existence of anti-government forces which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said are plotting conspiracies and treasonous acts in Karabakh.
A major opposition party pushed on Monday for an emergency session of the Armenian parliament after criticizing a blockade of the country’s courts initiated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s leading opposition forces denounced as unconstitutional on Sunday night Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s calls for a blockade of all court buildings in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday reacted cautiously to repeated calls for former President Robert Kocharian’s release from custody made by Nagorno-Karabakh’s current and former leaders.
Calls for Robert Kocharian’s release from custody voiced by Nagorno-Karabakh’s present and former leaders reflect public opinion in the Armenian ex-president’s native region, the speaker of the Karabakh parliament said on Wednesday.
Two Armenian pro-government lawmakers on Monday hit out at a senior Nagorno-Karabakh official who has traded insults with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s press secretary.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed suggestions that his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev behaved disrespectfully towards him at a Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) meeting held in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reiterated on Friday that the number of officially employed people in Armenia has increased by more than 50,000 since last spring’s “velvet revolution” that brought him to power.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) is not legally allowed to launch a crackdown on false news reports and social media comments ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a prominent civic activist insisted on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed three senior members of his staff, including the mother of the influential head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).
The Special Investigation Service is looking into claims made recently by a former senior official about massive falsifications during the 1998 presidential election that allegedly gave victory to then Prime Minister Robert Kocharian, a spokesperson said on Friday.
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