Prosecutors have brought fresh criminal charges against Movses Hakobian, Armenia’s former top general who has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of mishandling the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
An Armenian court freed on Wednesday an opposition candidate and another woman arrested during the weekend local election in Gyumri.
Dismissing repeated appeals from Yerevan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday reiterated his main preconditions for signing a peace deal with Armenia finalized last month.
The leader of a political group that finished third in the weekend municipal election in Gyumri remained on Tuesday reluctant to clarify whether he will enable another opposition candidate to become the new mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.
Law-enforcement officers ill-treated a female opposition candidate and two other elderly women in Gyumri who were arrested during the weekend municipal election held there, lawyers representing them claimed on Tuesday.
A parliament deputy from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party announced his resignation on Tuesday two days after appearing drunk in public and insulting a journalist.
A visibly drunk member of Armenia’s parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract party swore at a reporter late on Sunday as he roamed streets in downtown Gyumri during a tense local election held there.
German President Franck-Walter Steinmeier called on Azerbaijan to sign a peace deal with Armenia finalized earlier this month during an official visit to Yerevan on Monday.
Azerbaijani forces opened fire at a border village in Armenia’s Syunik province overnight, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday as it denied renewed Azerbaijani allegations of Armenian truce violations along the border between the two countries.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party risked losing control of Gyumri despite winning most votes in a municipal election held in Armenia’s second largest city on Sunday.
Thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Saturday to demand that Armenia’s government stop discriminating against them, champion their right to safely return to their homeland on the international stage and keep up housing allowances paid to many of them.
Law-enforcement authorities have freed all eight people arrested in Thursday’s police raids on the offices of two opposition blocs challenging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri.
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