Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has branded Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian a “foreign spy” and pledged to send former President Robert Kocharian back to prison, drawing strongly worded responses from both election challengers.
An opposition party running in Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections said on Friday that college students in the Armavir province were ordered to attend a campaign rally held there by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed on Friday President Vladimir Putin’s plans to discuss Armenia’s continued membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) at an upcoming summit of the leaders of the Russian-led trade bloc.
Former President Robert Kocharian’s Hayastan alliance accused the Armenian government of trying to obstruct its parliamentary election campaign after several of its members and supporters were arrested on vote-buying charges on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday that Armenian authorities are looking into reports that teachers and students of several public schools in the central Aragatsotn province were forced to attend his election campaign meetings held there on Wednesday.
Law-enforcement authorities pressed on Thursday criminal charges against a man arrested after using offensive language to attack Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during Armenia’s ongoing parliamentary election campaign.
Yet another former leader of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan has condemned his and the other Armenian prisoners’ trials and accused Azerbaijani authorities of continuing to violate their rights.
A genuine peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible only if it is guaranteed by major foreign powers, former President Robert Kocharian insisted on Wednesday as he campaigned for next month’s parliamentary elections.
Scores of schoolteachers and students in Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province interrupted classes on Wednesday to attend Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s election campaign rallies in what vote-monitoring groups condemned as a gross violation of Armenian law.
Turkey on Wednesday announced the lifting of its longtime ban on imports from Armenia but again set no date for the partial reopening of the Turkish-Armenian border promised by it in 2022.
The speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament predicted a further deterioration of Russian-Armenian relations on Tuesday as he denounced Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Yerevan last week.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday insulted and pledged to imprison the fugitive son of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading one of the three main opposition groups challenging him in next month’s parliamentary elections.
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