An Armenian judge resumed the trial of Catholicos Garegin II on Friday three weeks after trying unsuccessfully to recuse himself from the unprecedented case brought amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Businessman Ruben Vardanyan, one of the 19 Armenian prisoners held by Azerbaijan, has urged the country’s human rights ombudswoman to meet with them and address what he called “violations of their rights” guaranteed by Azerbaijani law.
Senior Russian officials on Friday warned the Armenian government against seizing Russian-linked companies in Armenia in another sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Yerevan.
The Armenian government announced on Thursday plans to roughly double the salaries of its top officials and parliament deputies in addition to hefty bonuses regularly paid to them.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reiterated on Thursday that he is not seeking the withdrawal of Russian troops stationed in Armenia but would not object to it.
Spiritual leaders of the Armenian community in the United States spoke and prayed with U.S. President Donald Trump during a visit to the White House on Wednesday.
The Armenian government is ready to import natural gas from Azerbaijan, a senior official in Yerevan said on Wednesday, commenting on Russia’s threats to sharply raise the price of Russian gas supplied to Armenia.
Alen Simonian, the secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said on Wednesday that he spoke with a senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev who denied the Armenian origin of Nagorno-Karabakh’s most famous medieval church.
The Constitutional Court has validated a U.S.-Armenian agreement to open a U.S.-run transit corridor for Azerbaijan through Armenia.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court has agreed to look into a government-backed law that will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenians living abroad and Russia in particular.
Armenia’s top appeals court has rejected prosecutors’ demand to imprison the formerly opposition mayor of the southeastern town of Goris following his decision to team up with the ruling Civil Contract party for an upcoming local election.
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a proposal to waive the European Union’s tariffs on imports of Armenian agricultural products and beverages that were effectively banned by Russia earlier this year.
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