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.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency on Thursday moved to prosecute Catholicos Garegin II for his decision to defrock a bishop involved in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial campaign to oust the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Catholicos Garegin II has defrocked one of the ten senior clergymen involved in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial campaign to oust the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
The last known Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who entered Armenia late last week were forced to leave their homeland, another Karabakh activist based in Yerevan has said, denying the Armenian government’s claims to the contrary.
Eleven persons, who may well include the last remaining ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, were evacuated from Karabakh to Armenia on Friday.
Police remained deployed around the offices of a pro-government bishop on Monday in an apparent effort to prevent the Armenian Apostolic Church from enforcing Catholicos Garegin II’s decision to dismiss him as head of a diocese just south of Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian dismissed on Thursday growing accusations that he is abusing his powers and violating Armenia’s constitution in his drive to oust the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian faced more accusations of abuse of power on Monday after pledging to keep trying to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in his official capacity as head of government.
One of the Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan has reportedly been hospitalized after what authorities in Baku described on Tuesday as a sharp deterioration of his health.
Dozens of men believed to be law-enforcement officers manhandled journalists outside Armenia’s main cathedral late on Thursday as they escorted renegade clerics who were met with a furious reception from thousands of people demonstrating in support of Catholicos Garegin II.
A priest in Gyumri claimed on Wednesday that officials from Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) have asked him to break canonical rules and defy Catholicos Garegin II so that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian can attend a Sunday mass at his church.
Two jailed archbishops have strongly condemned a dozen of their colleagues who have effectively joined in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II.
An event modeled on the U.S. tradition of holding National Prayer Breakfasts took place in Armenia on November 14, bringing together around 300 local and international guests.
The Catholicos of All Armenians has established a special committee to examine “intimate” videos allegedly depicting Archbishop Arshak Khachatrian, the head of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin’s chancery, a senior clergyman told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
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