Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, listed “lust for power” among Armenia’s problems on Monday as he celebrated a Christmas mass once again boycotted by the country’s political leadership.
A retired top general critical of the Armenian government was arrested at the weekend on charges stemming from the 2020 war with Azerbaijan during which he received Armenia’s highest state award from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s trade with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) grew more than fivefold, to almost $5 billion, in the first ten months of 2024 as the South Caucasus country seemed to become a major conduit for exports of Russian gold and diamonds to world markets.
Amid widespread fears of another war with Azerbaijan and Baku’s demands for more Armenian concessions, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has claimed to have made Armenia much more secure in the past year.
Russia has completed the withdrawal of its border guards from Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Monday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities said on Monday that they have brought a string of criminal charges against Arshak Karapetian, a Russian-based former defense minister who has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of treason and pledged to topple him.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have eased but not dropped criminal charges that were brought against the exiled mayor of Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital Stepanakert shortly after he signaled support for antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
Less than one month after being expelled from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party, two members of Armenia’s parliament have decided to set up their own political party.
A senior executive of a Canadian-based company said on Friday that it is close to securing $150 million in additional funding needed for starting much-delayed mining operations at Armenia’s massive Amulsar gold deposit by the end of next year.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstian, who led massive anti-government protests in May and June, on Friday apologized to supporters for failing to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and pledged to continue to campaign for regime change.
The father of Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian has landed him in yet another scandal by insulting owners of cheap cars and saying that on-street parking spots in the Armenian capital must be off limits to them.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian exchanged barbs with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday as he participated in a Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) summit in Russia via video link from Yerevan.
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