Law-enforcement authorities indicted Catholicos Garegin II on Saturday one day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian implicitly pledged to prevent an upcoming meeting in Austria of the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian admitted on Friday that he wants to end Russia’s management of Armenia’s railway network because of his ongoing efforts to restore transport links with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
A law-enforcement agency raided on Friday a hospital in Yerevan belonging to the Armenian Apostolic Church in yet another criminal case relating to the church’s embattled top clergy.
Eight prominent members of the Armenian communities in the United States and Europe have denounced Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Ignoring objections from opposition and press freedom groups, the Armenian parliament approved on Friday a government bill giving the authorities in Yerevan more powers to block broadcasts of foreign television programs critical of them.
Russia indicated on Thursday its readiness to restore two short sections of Armenia’s Russian-led railway network leading to the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders.
Samvel Karapetian’s newly established opposition party said on Thursday that the billionaire controversially prosecuted by the Armenian authorities will vie for the post of prime minister in Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections despite currently not being eligible for it.
An Armenian court on Thursday agreed to move to house arrest one of the four senior clerics jailed last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial campaign to oust Catholicos Garegin II.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has raised questions about Russia’s continued management of Armenia’s railway network, implying that it is hampering his government’s efforts to restore transport links with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Six members and supporters of an opposition group based in the Armenian town of Vagharshapat were arrested on Wednesday on charges described by its leader as politically motivated.
Russia can do a better job of building a new nuclear plant in Armenia than the United States, the Kremlin insisted on Wednesday, commenting on a U.S.-Armenian nuclear energy agreement finalized during U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Yerevan.
Armenia’s parliament approved on Wednesday a bill allowing men who illegally evaded compulsory military service to buy an amnesty.
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