Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian is facing another corruption scandal after it emerged that an Armenian government agency previously headed by him invested in 2023 over 1.5 billion drams ($3.8 million) in an obscure company run by a friend of his wife.
A U.S. lawyer representing Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s effective refusal to do more for the release of his client and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
The top lawyer representing the Armenian government in international courts has resigned following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s offers to withdraw lawsuits filed by Armenia against Azerbaijan.
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.
Բեռնել ավելին
