Armenia’s government risks plunging the country into widespread poverty with plans to seek its membership in the European Union, Russia said on Friday in yet another warning to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Friday that his government has extended a controversial deadline for mandatory income declarations which hundreds of thousands of Armenians must file with tax authorities.
Police used force against several opposition members of Yerevan’s municipal council on Friday during its ill-tempered session that discussed a significant increase in the cost of public transport initiated by Mayor Tigran Avinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Friday that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, responding to a wave of condemnation of his comments on the subject made late last week.
Senior law-enforcement and military officials spent more than four hours on Thursday answering questions from relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a U.S. legal think-tank, on Thursday joined Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s domestic critics in accusing him of helping Turkey deny the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other government officials defended on Thursday the ongoing introduction of mandatory universal income declaration in Armenia which is due to be mostly completed by May 1.
Armenia remains ready to establish conventional transport links with Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Thursday in response to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest demands for a land corridor through a key Armenian region.
Representatives of the European Union member states approved on Wednesday a proposal to extend the EU’s monitoring mission along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan by two years.
Russia again warned the Armenian government on Wednesday of severe economic consequences of its plans to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
A former mayor of Vanadzor, who was arrested in December 2021 after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a municipal election, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Wednesday at the end of his corruption trial.
One day after ruling out major concessions, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Tuesday pledged to scale back the impending significant increase in the cost of public transport in the Armenian capital.
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