The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it was taken aback by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s comments on the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey which caused outcry in Armenia and its worldwide Diaspora.
An extraterritorial corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through a key Armenian region would be bad for both Armenia and Iran, a senior Iranian diplomat said on Thursday, reaffirming his country’s position on the issue.
The two Turkish nationals handed over by Armenian law-enforcement authorities last month to Turkey completed 11-month prison sentences in Armenia before their extradition, court records show.
The Armenian government remained on Thursday in no rush to try to end a continuing general strike that has paralyzed the country’s largest metallurgical enterprise and number one corporate taxpayer.
One man was killed and another wounded in a major rural community near Yerevan early on Wednesday less than two months before a snap local election triggered by another deadly shooting.
Several senior officials from Yerevan’s municipal administration were arrested on Wednesday in a criminal investigation conducted by Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC).
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has expressed hope that the new U.S. administration of President Donald Trump will not stay “indifferent” to his efforts to end Armenia’s conflict with Azerbaijan.
The extended family of Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian is facing fresh media scrutiny after it emerged that some of its members purchased an expensive three-story mansion late last year.
Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise remained paralyzed by a strike on Tuesday as its management and striking workers failed to reach any agreements during their first face-to-face meeting.
Four years after its defeat in the war with Azerbaijan, Armenia has a chance to become a truly sovereign and independent country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed late on Monday.
Iran remains strongly opposed to any changes in regional borders, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has told a senior aide to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev one month after the latter threatened to forcibly open a land corridor through Armenia.
Many commuters appeared to be heeding on Monday opposition calls to boycott a significant increase in the cost of public transport in Yerevan initiated by Mayor Tigran Avinian.
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