Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician who used to challenge Armenia’s current government, has said that he has still not decided whether to run in the next general elections expected in June 2026.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry on Thursday declined to give any reason for continuing delays in the planned opening of a Russian consulate in Armenia’s strategic Syunik province.
A senior U.S. State Department official discussed with Armenian leaders bilateral ties and the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiation process during a visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed on Thursday his calls for a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia.
Another civilian house in a village on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was hit early on Thursday by what the Armenian Defense Ministry and local residents described as cross-border gunfire.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Wednesday to have made Armenia far more independent and sovereign during his seven-year rule, drawing scorn from his political opponents.
Hungary has effectively admitted blocking the European Union from allocating last month an additional 20 million euros ($22 million) in “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia through its European Peace Facility (EPF).
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov on Wednesday expressed concern about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and, in particular, what he called lingering tensions over Armenia’s strategic Syunik province.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has arrested a man who it believes stole last week $590,000 in cash kept in another law-enforcement agency’s offices in Yerevan.
The Armenian parliament debated on Tuesday a government proposal to increase maximum prison sentences for men evading compulsory military service or call-ups of reservists.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian sought on Tuesday to rationalize Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s continuing description of much of Armenia’s territory as “Western Azerbaijan,” linking it to activities of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership in Armenia.
Russia appeared to blame Armenia on Tuesday for continuing delays in the opening of a Russian consulate in a key Armenian region, Syunik.
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