An outspoken priest leading Armenia’s latest protest movement vowed renewed efforts to remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from power as he continued to tour Armenia’s regions this month.
Most of the draft peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan has already been agreed upon and political will is required to finalize it, Toivo Klaar, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, has said.
Armenia will not send its representatives to another military exercise conducted by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led bloc of six former Soviet nations from which Yerevan has sought to distance itself lately.
A judicial oversight body has decided not to apply any disciplinary action sought by Armenia’s justice minister against a judge hearing two high-profile cases.
Armenia has called on its citizens to temporarily refrain from visiting Lebanon amid an increased risk of military conflict in this Middle Eastern country.
A body overseeing state-funded broadcasters has admitted objecting to Armenian Public Radio’s critical coverage of the government years before replacing its executive director, Garegin Khumarian.
A Western-funded division of the Armenian police faced fresh torture allegations on Friday after arresting a man accused of illegally parking his car in Yerevan.
The United States remains concerned with the fate of at least 23 Armenian prisoners of war and civilians still held in Azerbaijan, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Thursday.
A member of an ad hoc government panel tasked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with drafting a new Armenian constitution on Thursday spoke out against such a change demanded by Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government set up on Thursday a company tasked with implementing its ambitious plans to build a new nuclear power plant that would replace the aging facility at Metsamor.
Turkey will open its border with Armenia if the latter negotiates a peace accord with Azerbaijan, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday two days after fresh normalization talks held by Ankara and Yerevan.
The United States is assisting Armenia’s political leadership in its efforts to “break with Russia,” according to a senior U.S. State Department official.
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