The judge presiding over the trial of Samvel Karapetian, a billionaire businessman leading Armenia’s largest opposition group, insisted on Friday that he is not acting on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s orders.
Opposition lawmakers pledged on Friday to ask the Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional a new law that will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenians living abroad and Russia in particular.
“Extra-regional” powers must not be allowed to interfere in Armenia’s relations with neighboring Iran, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian told Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during talks in Tehran on Friday.
Outgoing parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Thursday that he does not know why the leadership of the ruling Civil Contract party decided last week to push him out of the job.
Ignoring strong objections from the opposition and civil society, the ruling Civil Contract party hastily pushed through Armenia’s outgoing parliament on Thursday a bill that will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenians living abroad and Russia in particular.
Armenian opposition politicians and activists accused the European Union of continuing to turn a blind eye to government repression in Armenia as they demonstrated during European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged to have the European Union open its market to food and beverage imports from Armenia effectively banned by Russia when she visited Yerevan on Thursday for the second time in two months.
A senior Armenian diplomat on Wednesday gave no indication that his government will agree to Russia’s involvement in the planned opening of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan passing through Armenia.
Following Russia’s threats to sharply increase the price of natural gas supplied to Armenia, the Armenian utility regulator on Wednesday blocked the Russian-owned national gas distribution network from raising its retail prices for domestic consumers until the end of this year.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian telephoned Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Wednesday two days after downplaying the impact of Russian trade restrictions on Armenia’s economy.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is reportedly planning to attend the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that will begin in Tehran on July 4.
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.
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