Law-enforcement authorities have not prosecuted any of the police officers who injured dozens of anti-government protesters in Yerevan three months ago in a crackdown condemned by Armenia’s leading civic groups.
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun and his Armenian counterpart Suren Papikian explored closer military ties between their countries during talks held in Beijing on Thursday.
Thousands of weapons given by the Armenian government to citizens during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan remain unaccounted for, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday, commenting on a sharp rise in gun violence in Armenia.
Russia said on Wednesday that it has clarified to Iran its renewed calls for a transport corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave passing through Armenia which have prompted angry reactions from Tehran.
Hrayr Tovmasian, the former chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, rejected criminal charges levelled against him as baseless and politically motivated at the end of his marathon trial in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan is setting “ridiculous” conditions to avoid signing an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty that is “not going to be fair” to Armenia, according to Ben Cardin, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The European Union and Armenia have opened official negotiations on lifting the EU’s visa requirements for Armenian citizens, a process which is expected to take years.
An Armenian court decided on Tuesday to move an opposition figure close to former President Serzh Sarkisian to house arrest more than one year after he was detained on charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Exiled leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have pushed backed against a senior Armenian official’s claims that their government bodies have ceased to exist since Azerbaijan regained full control of the region last September.
The ruling Civil Contract party stripped three more opposition members of Yerevan’s municipal council of their seats on Tuesday ahead of a planned opposition bid to oust Mayor Tigran Avinian through a no-confidence vote.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian repeated on Tuesday his proposal to sign an interim peace deal with Azerbaijan one day after it was again rejected by Baku.
The mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris, who has challenged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in the past, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for defying an earlier court ruling that barred him from holding public office.
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