Riot police made eight arrests on Friday as they clashed with angry meat vendors in Yerevan protesting against the renewed enforcement of a government ban on home slaughter of livestock.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on Friday, saying that the Russian-led trade bloc has contributed to economic growth in Armenia and its other member states.
Armenia, India and Iran reaffirmed their commitment to a new transport corridor passing through their territories during a second round of trilateral negotiations held in New Delhi on Thursday.
The Armenian authorities on Thursday scheduled an early municipal election in Gyumri for March 30 after amending a law to install an acting mayor of the country’s second largest city.
A 71-year-old refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh stood trial in Armenia on Thursday for hurling an apple towards Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in protest.
The Azerbaijani government demanded on Thursday the withdrawal of European Union monitors deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan with the aim of preventing or minimizing ceasefire violations there.
A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan has criticized the Azerbaijani authorities for not allowing him to visit Azerbaijan to see the Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed there.
The Armenian community in Syria and the war-torn city of Aleppo in particular hopes to receive urgent economic assistance from Armenia, one of its representatives indicated on Wednesday.
An Armenian parliamentarian pledged renewed allegiance to the ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday just hours after freezing his party membership in protest against its crackdown on another pro-government lawmaker who has refused to resign from the National Assembly.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again rejected continuing Azerbaijan demands for a change of Armenia’s constitution which Baku says contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan.
Turkish and Armenian officials met last month to explore the possibility of restoring a rail link between their countries as part of attempts to normalize bilateral relations, Armenia’s deputy parliament speaker Ruben Rubinian said on Tuesday.
A lawmaker facing strong government pressure to resign from the Armenian parliament has demanded a criminal investigation into the disclosure of his personal communication which is stored in his mobile phone controversially confiscated by a law-enforcement agency.
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