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.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday acknowledged that he forced the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) to resign because of what she told and gave U.S. Vice President JD Vance during his recent visit to Yerevan.
Just weeks after showing U.S. Vice President JD Vance around the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) in Yerevan, its director, Edita Gzoyan, has resigned under reported pressure from Armenia’s government.
A video blogger and activist highly critical of Yerevan’s municipal authorities claimed on Tuesday that the Armenian military has illegally called him up for short service in a bid to “silence” him ahead of the June 7 parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his influential wife, Anna Hakobian, announced the breakup of their longtime de facto marriage on Friday in a surprise move dismissed by their detractors as a pre-election ploy.
Bishops and archbishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church were gathering in Austria for an emergency meeting on Monday despite travel bans imposed on Catholicos Garegin II and six other Armenia-based clergymen facing criminal charges rejected by them as politically motivated.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have indicted six more bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church, raising to ten the total number of senior clergymen prosecuted amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
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