Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian has branded Armenian media outlets as a “garbage dump” after one of them effectively accused him and his family of illicit enrichment.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday dismissed Azerbaijan’s continuing demands for Armenia to change its constitution and stop buying weapons and accused Baku of harboring territorial claims against his country.
Five days after reopening its embassy in Damascus, Armenia resumed on Thursday the work of its consulate in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo evacuated late last month during a rebel offensive that overthrew Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
The governor of Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province, Sergei Movsisian, has gone on vacation following the arrest of his close aide charged with illegal drug possession.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev listed multiple preconditions for signing a peace accord with Armenia in an interview with a Russian state broadcaster publicized on Wednesday.
The government has moved to establish a new auxiliary force that would reinforce Armenia’s army in times of war.
An Armenian parliament deputy has been formally expelled from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party after protesting against a crackdown on another pro-government lawmaker who is refusing to resign from the National Assembly.
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.
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