Law-enforcement authorities made more arrests in Gyumri on Wednesday, raising to 37 the total number of people taken into custody in connection with Monday’s angry protests sparked by the arrest of the city’s opposition mayor.
Amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II, the Armenian parliament approved on Wednesday government-backed legislation allowing authorities to halt broadcasts of a TV channel controlled by the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Armenian election monitors on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party of trying to bribe voters in a large community west of Yerevan ahead of an upcoming local election.
A priest who appears to have helped Armenian authorities arrest two more clergymen last week publicly pledged allegiance to Prime Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday right after being defrocked by the leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Azerbaijan will allow shipments of wheat and other goods to Armenia through its territory, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced on Tuesday.
Hundreds of heavy trucks disrupted cargo traffic through Armenia’s main border crossings with Georgia on Tuesday as their drivers kept pressing the Armenian government to negotiate an agreement to exempt them from Russia’s tougher entry requirements for them.
An Armenian court suspended Vartan Ghukasian as mayor of Gyumri on Tuesday as it remanded him in custody for two months one day after his arrest that sparked angry protests in the country’s second largest city.
A young woman from the Russian North Caucasus region of Chechnya who recently moved to Armenia to escape alleged domestic abuse was found dead at a Yerevan apartment at the weekend.
A resident of a community in central Armenia claimed at the weekend to have been beaten up by its mayor affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party.
The Armenian Apostolic Church is undaunted by the arrests of two more of its priests, Catholicos Garegin II said on Sunday after a law-enforcement agency opened a new criminal case which could land him in jail.
Three weeks after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to “throw out” Vartan Ghukasian, law-enforcement authorities arrested on Monday the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, sparking angry protests by his supporters.
Armenia’s economy is on track to expand by about 5 percent this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday in an upward revision of its earlier GDP growth forecast for the country.
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