With the decisive help of rural voters, Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party won a local election held on Sunday in a district near Yerevan comprising the town of Vagharshapat and 17 villages.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker visited Yerevan on Monday for further talks with Armenian leaders on practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan which would pass through a key Armenian region.
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.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal has upheld a lower-court ruling keeping Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetian in pretrial detention, rejecting a complaint filed by his legal team five months after his arrest.
Yerevan is discussing with Washington the possibility of granting construction rights for the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) project for either 99 or 49 years, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday.
Prosecutors in Azerbaijan have requested prison terms ranging from 16 years to life for former political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as other Armenian detainees, during an ongoing trial in Baku.
A serviceman from Russia’s 102nd military base in Armenia has been found guilty and sentenced to seven years and six months in prison over the death of a woman in Gyumri.
Security officers in Armenia have detained opposition activists and podcast hosts Narek Samsonian and Vazgen Saghatelian following searches of their homes in Yerevan that lasted more than an hour.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that construction of the so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) in the country’s strategic southern Syunik region is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026.
An opposition party running in local elections in western Armenia has condemned what it describes as the abduction of one of its supporters in the town of Etchmiadzin.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has publicly rejected Moscow’s claims that Yerevan intends to import wheat from Ukraine to partially replace its current supplies from Russia.
Opposition candidates running in municipal elections in a western Armenian community have accused the ruling Civil Contract party of exploiting administrative resources ahead of the vote.
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