Residents of a village in southeastern Armenia continue to drink water from their taps, ignoring strict warnings by health authorities that detected mercury in it one month ago.
An Armenian judge resumed the trial of Catholicos Garegin II on Friday three weeks after trying unsuccessfully to recuse himself from the unprecedented case brought amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
A second judge refused to preside over the trial of Catholicos Garegin II when it resumed on Friday amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Armenian authorities have filed fresh criminal charges against Gagik Tsarukian, a jailed businessman whose party was one of the main opposition contenders in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
A farmer critical of the Armenian government has been detained and held in police custody for 24 hours following a bitter political argument with a pro-government blogger who pledged to have him imprisoned.
A lion belonging to Gagik Tsarukian died on Tuesday the day after being confiscated by Armenian law-enforcement authorities as part of a crackdown on the opposition leader promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In what she sees as political retribution, an Armenian college administrator and lecturer has been fired following parliamentary elections in which she ran as a candidate of the main opposition Strong Armenia alliance.
The sister of an outspoken opposition figure has been sacked as deputy head of the Armenian government’s drug regulatory agency for what she sees as political reasons.
The Armenian military has drafted more than a dozen priests amid reports that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government is using callups of reservists to punish Russia-based Armenians suspected of having voted against his party in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Azerbaijan on Thursday to compensate the family of an Armenian army officer who was captured and decapitated by Azerbaijani troops during fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2016.
The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigorian, met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s top foreign policy aide, Hikmet Hajiyev, in the Armenian resort town of Dilijan at the weekend.
Law-enforcement authorities have detained and indicted a Russia-based Armenian national who voiced fears of post-election unrest in Armenia when he arrived in Yerevan to vote in Sunday’s legislative polls.
Iran should also be a “guarantor” of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deals brokered by the United States, a leader of the main opposition group running in Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections said on Monday.
More than one month after the resignation of its director ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) hastily deleted on Friday its online posts on Catholicos Garegin II’s visit to the genocide memorial in Yerevan.
Satellite photographs obtained by RFE/RL confirm that Azerbaijani authorities have recently demolished Nagorno-Karabakh’s main Armenian cathedral.
Azerbaijani authorities appear to have demolished Nagorno-Karabakh’s main Armenian cathedral and another church in Stepanakert, according to online imagery cited by exiled Karabakh activists in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has exposed the presence of his former de facto wife in his official residence and made a joint public appearance with her less than two months after the announcement of their divorce dismissed by critics as a pre-election ploy.
An Armenian deacon on Friday claimed to have been physically attacked by a bishop who has joined Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in demanding Catholicos Garegin II’s resignation.
The Armenian Apostolic Church said on Wednesday that law-enforcement authorities have banned at least two of its priests from visiting prisons amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Twenty-five scholars based in the United States and Europe have deplored the resignation of the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) in Yerevan ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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