Armenian’s National Security Service will present new “high-profile revelations” soon as part of its ongoing anticorruption efforts, the powerful agency’s chief told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Friday.
The Ethics Committee for High-Ranking Officials has found that the head of a supervisory body subordinate to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has violated rules of ethics set out in Armenia’s law on public service.
There is a growing wave of social discontent in Armenia and it is dangerous if the prime minister is not aware of it, an opposition lawmaker said on Wednesday, commenting on the statement that Nikol Pashinian amde at a press conference yesterday.
An extra-parliamentary party espousing radical views has announced the start of a process “to incorporate Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia as a province,” one of its leader said on Monday.
Armenia and Georgia are unanimous in their opinion that conflicts in the region have different natures and the grounds for their settlement are not identical, Armenian President Armen Sarkisian said following his talks with visiting Georgian counterpart Salome Zourabichvili in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh where he is to chair a meeting of Armenia’s Security Council planned for tomorrow, his press service said on Monday.
Armenia’s government is doing its best to bring back home a resident of an Armenian border village who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Azerbaijan, Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian said on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan is reluctant to accept a compromise solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday ahead of his anticipated fresh talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Economic Development Minister Tigran Khachatrian touted on Monday a preferential trade agreement signed by Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) last year, saying that it could greatly benefit Armenian exporters.
Samvel Babayan, a retired general who wants to run for president of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Monday claimed to have been “illegally” stripped of Karabakh citizenship over a decade ago.
The leaders and other members of a radical group that seized an Armenian police station in 2016 do not qualify for a general amnesty declared by the authorities late last year, Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian confirmed on Friday.
The Armenian government must not use the approaching 11th anniversary of deadly post-election violence in Yerevan for political purposes, a senior opposition lawmaker said on Friday.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) has urged Armenia’s leadership to reverse the country’s transition to a parliamentary system of government which was completed less than a year ago.
Former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian urged Armenian authorities on Friday to release former President Robert Kocharian from custody pending investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday of showing contempt for their criticism of his government’s five-year policy program debated by the Armenian parliament.
A senior Armenian lawmaker expressed confidence on Monday that Western powers will not rebuke Armenia for deploying military personnel to Syria with Russia’s support.
The chief of the Armenian police, Valeri Osipian, on Wednesday spoke out against pardoning members of a radical group who stormed a police base in Yerevan and held him and several other officers hostage in 2016.
Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former military leader, has expressed his desire to run in a presidential election that will be held in the Armenian-populated territory next year.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry on Monday confirmed that it has purchased four multirole fighter jets from Russia and hinted at more such acquisitions in the future.
Criminal charges leveled against three retired top generals in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan have affected morale within the Armenian military, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said on Monday.
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