Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry insisted on Friday that an Azerbaijani man detained by authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh is a civilian, rather than a member of a commando unit that allegedly infiltrated an Armenian-controlled district.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed military said on Thursday that its forces have captured Azerbaijani military personnel after neutralizing a commando raid from the Azerbaijani side of the frontline. (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday accused Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) of using threats and intimidation to try to recruit as informers two senior members of his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party.
A businessman arrested on charges of defrauding a partner insisted through a lawyer on Monday that former Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian was not involved in the alleged scam despite what some media present as evidence to the contrary.
The Armenian government increased on Thursday modest poverty benefits paid to more than 100,000 families in an effort to compensate them for a 10 percent rise in electricity prices.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties on Wednesday pledged to retaliate against the government’s decision to raise electricity prices with “adequate” joint actions.
Two retired senior Armenian diplomats criticized President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday for appointing a politically inexperienced former weightlifter as Armenia’s ambassador to neighboring Georgia.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Tuesday praised former President Robert Kocharian’s latest criticism of the government and said the country’s leading opposition forces should be ready to cooperate with him.
Opposition lawmakers slammed the Armenian government on Friday as the National Assembly debated its plans to relaunch an unpopular pension reform that was blocked by the country’s highest court in April.
The Armenian government on Thursday hit out at Russia’s most famous television journalist backed by the Kremlin for stating that the Russian language must be granted an official status in Armenia.
The Armenian government on Wednesday denied growing allegations that it has ordered employers to ensure that their workers do not exercise their legal right to opt out of a new and controversial pension system.
Armenia’s four main political parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian issued a list of concrete demands to his administration on Tuesday, warning that failure to meet them could lead them to make a joint push for power.
Armenia threatened Azerbaijan with “severe consequences” on Friday after two of its soldiers were shot dead on its border with the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan.
Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, the current chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, backed on Wednesday international mediators’ calls for the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents to meet again and try to revive the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Armenia will not start collecting any customs duties from goods imported from Nagorno-Karabakh after joining Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, a senior Armenian official reiterated on Monday.
It remained unclear on Friday whether Armenia’s political leadership will accept a last-minute condition for joining the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union demanded by Azerbaijan and publicly backed by Kazakhstan.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian played down on Wednesday the significance of continuing cooperation among Armenia’s main opposition parties, saying that he will strive to neutralize it with a strong socioeconomic record.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian again pledged to create a level playing for all businesses and tackle tax evasion on Tuesday as he presented his government’s three-year plan of actions to the Armenian parliament.
France’s President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacres of Armenians as genocide, saying that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent statement acknowledging their suffering is not sufficient.
French President Francois Hollande pointedly declined to criticize Armenia for backing Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and voiced support for an Association Agreement with the European Union sought by the Armenian government during a visit to Yerevan that ended on Tuesday.
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