Armenia’s leading press freedom groups decried on Thursday what they described as a smear campaign against RFE/RL’s Armenian Service incited by senior state officials in Yerevan.
The Armenian government gave an effective six-month reprieve to small-scale traders on Thursday after weeks of protests staged by many of them against a sharp increase in the key tax paid by them.
A leader of France’s influential Armenian community critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Thursday that Armenia’s government lifted last year an entry ban imposed on him thanks to intervention from French President Emmanuel Macron.
Six years after helping to disrupt a large-scale gold mining project in Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government on Thursday gave a U.S.-Canadian company $150 million in loan guarantees needed for reviving it.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on two provisions of a draft bilateral peace treaty, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday one day after Baku responded to Yerevan’s most recent proposals designed to bridge their remaining differences.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian businessman and philanthropist jailed in Azerbaijan, reportedly felt unwell during his ongoing trial on Tuesday one week after going on hunger strike to protest against the “judicial farce.”
The top leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that its affiliates in the United States are lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to help the Karabakh Armenians’ safely return to their homeland.
Azerbaijan has responded to Armenia’s most recent proposals designed to bridge their remaining differences on a bilateral peace treaty, according to the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
A senior Armenian lawmaker complained on Tuesday that Azerbaijan is making it harder for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration to enact a new Armenian constitution by continuing to publicly demand such a change.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian telephoned his Russian counterpart Valentina Matvienko on Tuesday to discuss her planned visit to Armenia which may have been delayed amid lingering tensions between Moscow and Yerevan.
The European Union and Armenia are close to finalizing a new agreement to deepen their relations, a senior Armenian diplomat said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday criticized for the first time the trials of former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan.
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