Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian thinks that the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh was a blessing for Armenia, according to one of the university students who attended a meeting with him on Monday.
Citing sanitary concerns, Russia threatened on Tuesday to ban the rapidly growing import of cut flowers from Armenia.
The Armenian Apostolic Church strongly condemned on Monday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s vicious attacks on its top clergy which continued unabated amid an uproar from opposition leaders, prominent public figures and many ordinary citizens.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife has defended his and her personal insults of their detractors and said this is now part of their ongoing campaign purportedly aimed at helping Armenians become more educated.
Aram Hovannisian, the chief of Armenia’s national police service who has personally led crackdowns on antigovernment protesters, was unexpectedly dismissed on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sparked an uproar from opposition leaders, prominent public figures and many ordinary citizens on Friday after using obscene language to lambaste senior clergymen who denounced his latest attacks on the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician who used to challenge Armenia’s current government, has said that he has still not decided whether to run in the next general elections expected in June 2026.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry on Thursday declined to give any reason for continuing delays in the planned opening of a Russian consulate in Armenia’s strategic Syunik province.
A senior U.S. State Department official discussed with Armenian leaders bilateral ties and the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiation process during a visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed on Thursday his calls for a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia.
Another civilian house in a village on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was hit early on Thursday by what the Armenian Defense Ministry and local residents described as cross-border gunfire.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Wednesday to have made Armenia far more independent and sovereign during his seven-year rule, drawing scorn from his political opponents.
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