A former mayor of Gyumri who will challenge Armenia’s ruling party in next month’s local election accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of trying to bully him into dropping out of the mayoral race after being briefly detained by police on Thursday.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian refused to say on Thursday what the Armenian government is doing to try to secure the release of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh standing trial in Azerbaijan.
The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigorian, dismissed on Thursday calls by some opposition figures for Yerevan to try to revive the Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has given more indications that his administration is stepping up efforts to enact a new constitution of Armenia demanded by Azerbaijan.
Armenia must seek to revive the Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh if it is to prevent another Azerbaijani military aggression, a former political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian businessman and philanthropist jailed in Azerbaijan, has launched another hunger strike to protest against his ongoing trial described by him as a “judicial farce.”
The unfolding thaw in U.S.-Russian relations is another reason why Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must not accept Azerbaijan’s demands for the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian opposition leader said on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has amended a controversial plan to help tens of thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh obtain permanent housing in Armenia after failing to attract strong interest from them.
Russia’s ambassador in Yerevan met with Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday five days after the former Armenian president seemingly praised neighboring Iran for opposing an Azerbaijani land corridor that would pass through Armenia.
A company importing and selling mobile phones became Armenia’s second largest corporate taxpayer last year in what appears to be a result of Western economic sanctions against Russia.
An Armenian court granted bail to a retired top general critical of the government on Tuesday more than one month after he was arrested on charges stemming from the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Former President Robert Kocharian said on Monday that he has no plans to leave active politics and will continue to lead the main opposition Hayastan alliance in its declared efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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