Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian named Armenia’s new ministers of interior and public infrastructures on Wednesday, replacing two of the six senior state officials forced by him to resign on Monday.
A member of the ruling Civil Contract party who has denounced “Russian neocolonialism” in Armenia was appointed on Friday as head of the country’s state utility regulator.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s presumptive top candidate in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri denied on Tuesday media reports that he bitterly argued and brawled with other local activists allied to the Armenian government.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday rejected an opposition-drafted resolution calling on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan to free all of the at least 23 Armenian prisoners held by it.
A senior Armenian official did not rule out Armenia’s participation in the COP29 climate summit just as it kicked off in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Monday.
Armenia has signaled that differences remain with Azerbaijan over the draft text of a peace treaty following the latest exchange of proposals earlier this week.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian spoke about another “day of self-criticism” within Civil Contract following the ruling party’s late Thursday meeting chaired by him.
Two opposition factions in the Armenian parliament have initiated a move to convene a special session of the legislative body on the issue of prisoners of war and other Armenians jailed in Azerbaijan.
A top Armenian investigator has expresses regret regarding an incident between him and a group of pro-government lawmakers that took place in parliament earlier this month.
Armenia’s anti-corruption body has launched a criminal probe following claims by the country’s top investigator regarding attempts at interference in an investigation allegedly orchestrated by a pro-government lawmaker.
Official Yerevan says no revision of the Armenian-Russian interstate agreement on the status of Russian border guards in Armenia is planned following a decision earlier this month that a checkpoint at the border with Iran will be manned exclusively by Armenian personnel beginning next year.
The Armenian police have done a good job in the last five years despite a significant increase in various crimes committed in the country, Interior Minister Vahe Ghazarian insisted on Tuesday.
Armenia has no plans yet to remove Russian borders from its borders with Turkey and Iran after their impending withdrawal from the sole Armenian-Iranian border crossing, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The impending withdrawal of Russian border guards from Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran will boost its sovereignty, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held separate talks with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on Tuesday after apparently failing to organize a trilateral meeting with them.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday refused to sign up to statements by his Russian and other ex-Soviet counterparts implicitly denouncing Western sanctions against Russia and calling for a “multipolar” international security architecture.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appears to have set further conditions for ending his country’s conflict with Armenia amid Yerevan’s continuing offers to swiftly sign a bilateral peace deal.
Senior Armenian and Iranian officials reaffirmed their governments’ pledges to significantly increase trade between the two neighboring countries when they inaugurated a large Iranian shopping center just outside Yerevan on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to help make the world a better place when he addressed the UN General Assembly in New York late on Monday hours after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made fresh threats of military action against Armenia.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed by Azerbaijan, hit back at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s recent scathing comments about him in a statement released by his Yerevan-based office on Friday.
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