A senior Russian official claimed on Wednesday that the United States and the European Union will only destabilize the South Caucasus with their deepening security ties with Armenia.
The Armenian military has drafted more than a dozen priests amid reports that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government is using callups of reservists to punish Russia-based Armenians suspected of having voted against his party in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly planning to visit Armenia on July 1 to reaffirm support for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his pro-Western foreign policy increasingly resented by Russia.
Investigators searched opposition leader Ishkhan Saghatelian’s Yerevan apartment and car on Tuesday in a criminal investigation linked by him to Armenia’s disputed parliamentary elections.
Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledges to “dispossess” his main political foes, the Armenian government revoked on Monday the operating license of a company managing the country’s largest casino owned by businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian.
Billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia alliance is negotiating with at least two other major opposition groups over his proposal to jointly challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after the disputed parliamentary elections held on June 7.
Armenia’s leadership keeps ignoring Russia’s serious concerns about its drift towards the European Union, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
An Armenian opposition politician was briefly detained and charged with spreading antigovernment “hate speech” on Friday less than one year after his release from prison.
Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledges to “dispossess” his main political foes, the Armenian authorities have launched tax audits of companies owned by opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian, his spokeswoman said on Friday.
Six opposition groups and one pro-government party petitioned Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Friday to invalidate the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections that gave victory to the ruling Civil Contract party.
Armenia has urged the European Union to speed up its aid measures designed to help the country mitigate potentially severe consequences of a Russian embargo on key Armenian imports, according to diplomatic sources in Brussels.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Azerbaijan on Thursday to compensate the family of an Armenian army officer who was captured and decapitated by Azerbaijani troops during fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2016.
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