In what local anti-graft activists view as an alarming sign, Transparency International has not changed Armenia’s position in its annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world.
Workers of Armenia’s largest metallurgical company have agreed to end their strike after its management pledged to raise their wages and improve their working conditions.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian, a key political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, on Tuesday lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population for fleeing the region following Azerbaijan’s large-scale military assault in September 2023.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry dismissed on Tuesday an Armenian proposal regarding practical modalities of opening transport links between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave via Armenia.
French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his country’s strong support for Armenia’s territorial integrity when he held talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Paris on Monday.
The Russian chief executive of the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) accused “some forces” of trying to seize control of Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise that remained paralyzed by a strike on Monday despite a 20 percent pay rise promised by him.
Armenian lawyers went on a one-day strike on Monday as they continued to protest against their exclusion them from a preferential tax regime that has long been enjoyed by them and many other small businesses.
Two lawmakers expelled from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party late last year pledged to strive to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as they held the founding congress of their new party at the weekend.
Azerbaijan may be preparing the ground to attack Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Monday.
The Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) fired on Friday eight of its workers who organized one week ago a continuing general strike that disrupted mining and ore-processing operations at Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise.
An Armenian court sentenced a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army to five and a half years in prison on Friday after holding him responsible for one of the military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with US Vice President JD Vance late on Thursday at the end of a four-day visit to Washington which prompted questions from his domestic critics.
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