A visibly drunk member of Armenia’s parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract party swore at a reporter late on Sunday as he roamed streets in downtown Gyumri during a tense local election held there.
German President Franck-Walter Steinmeier called on Azerbaijan to sign a peace deal with Armenia finalized earlier this month during an official visit to Yerevan on Monday.
Azerbaijani forces opened fire at a border village in Armenia’s Syunik province overnight, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday as it denied renewed Azerbaijani allegations of Armenian truce violations along the border between the two countries.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party risked losing control of Gyumri despite winning most votes in a municipal election held in Armenia’s second largest city on Sunday.
Thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Saturday to demand that Armenia’s government stop discriminating against them, champion their right to safely return to their homeland on the international stage and keep up housing allowances paid to many of them.
Law-enforcement authorities have freed all eight people arrested in Thursday’s police raids on the offices of two opposition blocs challenging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s candidate in the upcoming mayoral election in Gyumri faced an uproar from Armenian opposition figures and exiled Nagorno-Karabakh activists on Friday after saying that Karabakh was a “bad place” before being recaptured by Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan will not sign a peace deal with Armenia before clinching further concessions from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, representatives of the leading Armenian opposition groups insisted on Friday.
Residents of two border villages in Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province said on Thursday that Azerbaijani troops deployed nearby opened cross-border fire for the seventh consecutive night.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Thursday allowed prosecutors to bring criminal charges against two opposition lawmakers who reject them as politically motivated.
Law-enforcement officials raided the Gyumri offices of two opposition blocs and arrested at least three of their activists on Thursday three days before a tightly contested municipal election that will take place in Armenia’s second largest city.
Armenia will have to leave the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and lose economic benefits provided by the Russian-led trade bloc if it keeps trying to join the European Union, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said on Thursday.
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