An Armenian court has extended by another 30 days the pre-trial arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian, who is expected to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Law-enforcement authorities pressed criminal charges against two of at least 13 priests detained by them on Wednesday in a criminal investigation linked by the Armenian Apostolic Church to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II.
The signing of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty remains conditional on a change of Armenia’s constitution, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reiterated on Wednesday.
The Armenian opposition condemned law-enforcement authorities for arresting 13 more clerics on Wednesday, saying that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has openly declared war on the Armenian Apostolic Church.
An Armenian bishop and at least 12 other priests were detained on Wednesday in a criminal investigation which the Armenian Apostolic Church linked to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing campaign against its top clergy.
The United States and Armenia have yet to work out practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through a strategic Armenian region, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump cut short a brief conversation with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and referred to him as a “compatriot” of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday during a summit in Egypt aimed at ending the devastating war in Gaza.
In an unprecedented petition, thousands of supporters of the opposition head of a large rural community murdered last month have demanded that the Armenian government expel from it his pro-government rival and people related to the latter.
A group of commercial truck drivers demonstrated in Yerevan on Monday to demand that the Armenian government press Russian authorities to exempt them from Russia’s tighter immigration rules that have left them facing travel bans.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician who used to challenge Armenia’s current government, has announced that he and his political allies will run in next year’s general elections.
Jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian pledged to continue campaigning for a change of Armenia’s government at the weekend as his opposition movement claimed to have enlisted 5,000 members since being launched in late August.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian touted the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements brokered by the United States when he attended a summit of the leaders of Russia and several other ex-Soviet states in Tajikistan on Friday.
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