A body overseeing state-funded broadcasters has formally replaced the executive director of Armenian Public Radio who criticized earlier this year Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s statements on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Former Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian has claimed that he was kept in the dark about the handover to Azerbaijan of contested border areas along Armenia’s Syunik province which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian controversially ordered in December 2020.
After a two-year hiatus, Turkish and Armenian envoys will meet on Tuesday for more talks on the normalization of relations between their countries, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pointed on Sunday to Turkey’s direct involvement in the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijani war in Nagorno-Karabakh when he seemed to threaten military action against Israel.
Armenia’s Investigative Committee has paid 49 million drams ($125,000) to buy a new car for its government-linked head, Argishti Kyaramian.
More than three years after declaring coup charges brought against Robert Kocharian unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court has given the green light for another trial of Armenia’s former president sought by prosecutors.
Armenia and Iran have flatly denied a report claiming that they secretly signed earlier this year several contracts for the delivery of $500 million worth of Iranian weapons to Yerevan.
Armenia should not follow the example of Ukraine in deepening its ties with the European Union and other Western powers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan threatened on Thursday to take large-scale military action against Armenia in response to what it called Armenian “provocations” along the border between the two countries.
Louis Bono, a U.S. special envoy for Armenia-Azerbaijan peace talks, visited Yerevan on Thursday two weeks after a meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers held in Washington.
Armenia’s Health Minister Anahit Avanesian on Thursday defended her controversial decision to allow riot police to use more powerful stun grenades which some experts say can kill protesters.
A reputedly government-linked member of Armenia’s Commission on Prevention of Corruption has prevented it from fining Defense Minister Suren Papikian’s wife for not declaring at least $23,000 in cash in her asset statement submitted to the state body.
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