An Armenian law-enforcement agency has brought corruption charges against yet another senior official from Yerevan’s municipal administration.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that his government will make only “proportionate” and “reasonable” efforts to try to secure the release of the Armenians jailed in Azerbaijan.
Former Presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian have indirectly accused each other of helping Nikol Pashinian come to power in 2018 in an escalating war of words between Armenia’s two main opposition groups led by them.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said that Armenia and neighboring Iran continue to trust each other despite Yerevan’s efforts to move closer to the West.
The uncle of a pregnant woman who died in April 2022 after being hit by a police car leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade has suffered a heart attack during the protracted trial of the car’s driver.
A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan urged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday to do “much more” for the release of his client and the other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
The European Union is considering allocating an additional 10 million euros ($10.5 million) in “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia through its European Peace Facility (EPF), a special fund aimed at strengthening the defense capacities of EU partners.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday complained about Azerbaijan’s failure to accept his proposals regarding transport links for its Nakhichevan exclave and again suggested that Baku may be preparing the ground to attack Armenia.
Small-scale traders in Yerevan and Gyumri resumed on Monday their protests against a sharp increase in the key tax paid by them, dismissing a conditional six-month reprieve offered to them by the Armenian government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted at the weekend that his government is doing its best behind the scenes to try to secure the release of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
The Armenian parliament on Monday unexpectedly postponed final debates on a government-backed bill calling for Armenia’s eventual membership in the European Union which has prompted stern warnings from Russia.
U.S. customs and border protection officials have not cancelled a visit to Armenia that was due to take place last month, a senior Armenian official said on Monday.
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