Prosecutors have filed a new criminal charge against Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and opposition politician who plans to run in next year’s Armenian parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s official poverty rate has fallen in the past year but is still well above the government’s target set in 2021, according government data.
Bowing to opposition pressure, the Armenian government publicized on Tuesday past international plans to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including the one apparently rejected by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian before the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
The European Union accused Russia on Tuesday of spreading “disinformation” in Armenia head of next year’s Armenian parliamentary elections as it pledged to deepen ties with Yerevan through a new “strategic agenda.”
An Armenian appeals court on Monday moved to house arrest a jailed opposition parliamentarian standing trial with Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his 16 other supporters on coup charges rejected by them as politically motivated.
Two years after his release from prison, law-enforcement authorities have filed new criminal charges a prominent military general who demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation in 2021.
Two jailed archbishops have strongly condemned a dozen of their colleagues who have effectively joined in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II.
Armenian prosecutors have reportedly been monitoring people posting angry comments about Prime Miniter Nikol Pashinian on social media and have even ordered criminal investigations into some of them.
An Armenian government delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian visited Azerbaijan on Friday for fresh talks on the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
About a dozen bishops and archbishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church have openly revolted against its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s intensifying efforts to depose him.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian has pledged to draft a new Armenian constitution, demanded by Azerbaijan, by next March.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian accused opposition leaders on Thursday of continuing to inflate the number of Armenians killed during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan, insisting that it stands at 3,833.
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