Armenia’s total public debt has doubled to over $12.6 billion during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s time in office, official statistics show.
Armenia will not take part in this week’s summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, a senior Russian diplomat said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has confirmed that he told the head of Armenia’s judicial oversight body, Karen Andreasian, to resign last week, saying that he is unhappy with some of the decisions made by Armenian courts.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has drawn strong condemnation from historians, opposition leaders and other critics after saying that Armenians should stop describing as “Western Armenia” parts of moder-day eastern Turkey populated by their ancestors until the 1915 genocide.
An Armenian court on Friday convicted a former Nagorno-Karabakh official, who did not flee the region right after its recapture by Azerbaijan, of spying for Baku and sentenced him to 18 years in prison.
Six months after being tasked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with drafting a new constitution of Armenia, an hoc government panel has still not met to discuss the matter, a senior official said on Friday.
Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri has been left without a municipal administration for almost a month, with the central government still not clarifying as of Friday afternoon whether it will hold a snap election there in the coming weeks.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has again interrogated an outspoken pro-government lawmaker who seems to be defying reported government orders to resign from the parliament.
Armenia has not participated in the COP29 climate summit in Baku because of Azerbaijan’s failure to free any of at least 23 Armenian prisoners held by it, a senior official in Yerevan indicated on Thursday.
The Armenian government announced on Thursday it will stop paying housing allowances to many refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and significantly reduce them for others next year.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted a former provincial governor on Thursday one day after naming him as Armenia’s new minister of territorial administration and infrastructures.
Hovik Aghazarian, an Armenian pro-government lawmaker, insisted on Wednesday that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is not pressuring him to leave the parliament after forcing the resignations of six senior state officials.
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