Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Tuesday refused to provide further information about what it called last week a “possible attempt” to illegally enter the country from neighboring Turkey which alarmed residents of an Armenian border village.
The chief of the police department of Ashtarak, a small town 22 kilometers northwest of Yerevan, resigned on Tuesday one day after policemen led by him detained a local government official suspected of illegal drug possession.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot urged the European Union to deepen its ties with Armenia during a meeting of the top diplomats of EU member states held in Brussels late on Monday.
A member of Armenia’s parliament ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party on Tuesday dismissed as politically motivated criminal proceedings launched against him after his refusal to resign from the National Assembly.
Armenia reopened its embassy in Damascus on Monday one week after evacuating it amid the rebel offensive that toppled Syria’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has launched a fresh criminal investigation into a lawmaker ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party after defying Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s “request” to resign from the parliament.
The Azerbaijani authorities have reportedly brought more criminal charges against Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier Ruben Vardanyan more than one year after capturing him during the exodus of Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population.
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.
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