Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised Armenia’s “special” relationship with the Vatican as he was received by Pope Francis on Monday.
The pro-government mayor of a major rural community near Yerevan resigned on Monday two days after being reportedly involved in a violent dispute that left one person dead.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has effectively begun campaigning for the next parliamentary elections by forcing six high-ranking state officials to resign, Armenian opposition leaders said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian telephoned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the weekend to discuss U.S.-Armenian relations and regional security.
The heads of Armenia’s judicial oversight body and two law-enforcement agencies as well as three government members resigned on Monday, bowing to orders from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A member of the ruling Civil Contract party who has denounced “Russian neocolonialism” in Armenia was appointed on Friday as head of the country’s state utility regulator.
A controversial former head of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s security detail has reportedly assaulted one of his subordinates in yet another violent incident decried by the Armenian opposition and media.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian castigated Armenia’s judicial and law-enforcement bodies on Friday, saying that they have failed to end a perceived lack of “justice” in the country during his more than six-year rule.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on Friday declined to confirm Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s assertion that Armenia and Azerbaijan may be close to opening their border to trade and travel.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday again condemned the holding of the COP29 summit in Baku, saying that the international community thus let Azerbaijan “greenwash” ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh and other “extreme human rights abuses” committed by it.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party has signaled plans to delay the holding of an early municipal election in Gyumri, raising concerns among local opposition groups.
Armenia said on Thursday that it has not unfrozen its membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) despite attending a meeting in Moscow of senior diplomats of the ex-Soviet states making up the Russian-led military alliance.
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