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.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday threatened to “throw against the wall” and “trample underfoot” Armenia’s three former presidents if they don’t stop blaming him for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Security officers used force on Wednesday to stop journalists covering sessions of the Armenian parliament from protesting against a senior pro-government lawmaker who publicly insulted one of them last week.
Ignoring repeated warnings from Russia, the National Assembly on Wednesday approved in the second and final reading a government-backed bill declaring the “start of a process of Armenia's accession to the European Union.”
Investigators have searched the home of the mayor of the Armenian town of Vagharshapat affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party following a deadly shooting at a local gas station belonging to her father-in-law.
A renewed escalation of tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan is unacceptable to the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in a phone call late on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry downplayed on Tuesday the significance of cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan reported by residents of some Armenian border villages.
Armenia is not considering unfreezing its membership in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday amid Yerevan’s apparent efforts to ease tensions with Moscow.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party on Tuesday rejected opposition demands for significant increases in modest pensions paid to more than 500,000 Armenians.
Visiting Yerevan on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign “as soon as possible” a bilateral peace treaty finalized by them on March 13 after years of negotiation.
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