A judge in Gyumri has refused to continue the trial of a local resident who described as a “clown” the head of an Armenian law-enforcement agency prosecuting senior clergymen at odds with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Armenian government has taken the first step towards rebuilding a section of Armenia’s Russian-run railway network leading to its closed border with Turkey, Infrastructure Minister Davit Khudatian said on Monday.
Opposition groups in Gyumri insisted on Friday that they will not cede control of the municipal administration to Armenia’s ruling party despite the arrest of one of their leaders denounced by them as politically motivated.
Vartan Ghukasian, the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, was moved to house arrest on Friday after spending nine months in prison on what he sees as politically motivated charges.
Armenia’s three main opposition groups said law-enforcement authorities continued to arrest scores of their members and supporters as voting began in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities arrested 27 more opposition members and supporters on Thursday in a continuing crackdown on the main opposition groups running in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
Former President Robert Kocharian again accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of needlessly antagonizing Russia and leading Armenia to economic ruin as he took his Hayastan alliance’s election campaign to the southeastern Vayots Dzor province on Monday.
The Armenian government continued to downplay its mounting tensions with Russia at the weekend just as Moscow imposed more bans on agricultural imports from Armenia and lambasted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was accused of intensifying a crackdown on his key election challengers on Friday as law-enforcement authorities searched the homes and offices of two prominent opposition figures allied to Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian.
A genuine peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible only if it is guaranteed by major foreign powers, former President Robert Kocharian insisted on Wednesday as he campaigned for next month’s parliamentary elections.
A resident of Gyumri went on trial on Thursday three months after describing as a “clown” the head of an Armenian law-enforcement agency prosecuting Catholicos Garegin II and other senior clergymen at odds with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian civic group has accused the ruling Civil Contract party of forcing schoolteachers and kindergarten workers to attend a pre-election concert in Gyumri organized by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Sunday.
Six people died and eleven others were seriously injured on Friday in one of the worst car accidents reported in Armenia in recent years.
A top aide to former President Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Tuesday that his Armenian National Congress (HAK) is discussing with billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s opposition movement the possibility of joining forces for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
An Armenian opposition supporter has been arrested and prosecuted for making what her lawyer described on Monday as a disparaging statement about Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his family in a private message sent online.
One of the Armenian archbishops prosecuted amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against Catholicos Garegin II was greeted by scores of believers on Tuesday as he was taken back to Gyumri to serve his house arrest there.
Two journalists working for an independent Armenian newspaper were forcibly removed from the parliament building in Yerevan on Friday after being controversially stripped of their accreditation.
Vartan Ghukasian, the jailed opposition mayor of Gyumri, has been hospitalized for a second time in two months, one of his lawyers said on Thursday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped a criminal charge against the jailed opposition mayor of Gyumri stemming from his calls for closer ties between Armenia and Russia.
Workers of a Chinese company contracted to build a $112 million irrigation reservoir in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province have left the country, heralding the failure of another infrastructure project overseen by the Armenian government.
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