Armenia’s government agencies must be purged of officials who have their underage sons renounce Armenian citizenship to avoid compulsory military service, Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday rejected continuing Azerbaijan demands for a change of Armenia’s constitution which Baku says contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan.
Iran and Russia have diverging interests in the South Caucasus, according to the Iranian ambassador to Armenia, Mehdi Sobhani.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s presumptive top candidate in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri denied on Tuesday media reports that he bitterly argued and brawled with other local activists allied to the Armenian government.
Armenia’s government has to spend public money more sparingly due to an ongoing slowdown of economic growth in the country, Finance Minister Vahe Hovannisian said on Tuesday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the son of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician, in connection with a shooting incident reported three weeks ago.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday rejected an opposition-drafted resolution calling on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan to free all of the at least 23 Armenian prisoners held by it.
Last year’s exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population was the result of Azerbaijan’s systematic “policy of ethnic cleansing,” U.S.-based watchdog Freedom House and six other human rights groups said in an extensive report released on Monday.
Following criticism from a Western human rights organization, the Armenian government has put on hold plans to require shops, restaurants and other small businesses to install surveillance cameras and give police full access to their footage.
The Armenian police have reinstated one of their officers who was suspended after being caught on camera beating up an opposition parliamentarian during antigovernment protests in Yerevan in May.
A senior Armenian official did not rule out Armenia’s participation in the COP29 climate summit just as it kicked off in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Monday.
Gyumri’s City Council failed to secure a quorum on Friday during a special session convened to elect a new mayor, setting the stage for possible snap elections in Armenia’s second largest community.
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