The Armenian government has contracted two Iranian companies to build Armenia’s longest tunnel that will be part of a strategically important highway leading to the Iranian border.
After decades of resistance, Israel has moved to officially recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, prompting strong condemnation from Ankara.
Signaling no letup in their economic pressure on Armenia, Russian authorities blacklisted on Friday the last two Armenian fish farms that were still technically allowed to export their products to Russia.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court began on Friday hearings on appeals against the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections filed by six opposition groups and one pro-government party.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed as demagogic Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s scathing response to Russia’s and other ex-Soviet states’ implicit threats to freeze Armenia out of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) due to its pro-Western foreign policy.
The sister of an outspoken opposition figure has been sacked as deputy head of the Armenian government’s drug regulatory agency for what she sees as political reasons.
The ruling Civil Contract party on Thursday designated one of its senior members, Ruben Rubinian, as the speaker of Armenia’s new parliament elected in the disputed June 7 elections.
An Armenian appeals court overturned on Thursday a prison sentence for an outspoken archbishop who was arrested one year ago amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial campaign to oust Catholicos Garegin II.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday blamed Armenian opposition and Diaspora groups for Azerbaijan’s renewed demands for Armenia to allow a mass influx of Azerbaijanis who had lived there in Soviet times.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reacted scathingly on Thursday to Russia’s and other ex-Soviet states’ recent calls for Armenia to decide whether to remain part of their Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) or continue seeking membership of the European Union.
Law-enforcement authorities have not brought criminal charges against any of the officials from Yerevan’s municipal administration who were caught on camera assaulting opposition members of the city council on Tuesday.
A prominent opposition politician allied to billionaire Samvel Karapetian was arrested and indicted on Wednesday in what Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s critics see as a post-election government crackdown on the Armenian opposition.
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