Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian lavished praise on billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Monday, effectively endorsing him ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections.
The Armenian government believes that neighboring Iran’s escalating war with the United States and Israel poses no security threats to Armenia, senior officials in Yerevan said on Monday.
Armenia’s leaders on Monday offered condolences to neighboring Iran over the deaths of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, other senior officials and ordinary citizens killed in ongoing U.S.-Israeli air strikes and called for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
Armenia’s political leadership reacted cautiously and, according to its critics, belatedly on Sunday to the joint massive attack on neighboring Iran launched by the United States and Israel.
Senior Russian and Armenian government officials discussed the restoration of two short sections of Armenia’s Russian-run railway network leading to the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders during talks in Yerevan on Friday.
The Georgian government has yet to explain why dozens of Armenian trucks carrying construction materials from Russia have been held up in Georgia and not allowed to proceed to Armenia for the last two weeks, according to Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his influential wife, Anna Hakobian, announced the breakup of their longtime de facto marriage on Friday in a surprise move dismissed by their detractors as a pre-election ploy.
Former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian’s Fatherland party on Friday said that it will not run in Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections and urged supporters to vote for other opposition groups.
Another critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has been arrested and prosecuted for insulting him on social media, it emerged on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated late on Wednesday that he still has no plans to put an end to Russia’s military presence in Armenia despite forging closer ties with the West.
A senior official insisted on Thursday that the Armenian government has asked the European Union to assist in the proper conduct of Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections, rather than help it win them.
Three deputy chiefs of the Armenian police were sacked on Wednesday following a spate of fresh shootings and murders that highlighted a significant increase in gun violence in the country.
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