Five people were killed and eleven others injured on Wednesday in an apparent natural-gas explosion that ripped through an apartment block in the northeastern Armenian town Chambarak.
Hundreds of people mobilized by Armenian opposition groups gathered at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport on Tuesday night to greet Catholicos Garegin II and show support for him in his standoff with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In a move denounced by his critics as illegal, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday that he will set up a special body tasked with replacing Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Georgia has still not given a clear explanation for its decision to introduce physical transit checks that have disrupted part of Armenia’s multimillion-dollar brandy exports to Russia, the Armenian Economy Ministry said on Tuesday.
One month after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian publicly vowed to jail former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian, prosecutors have asked the Armenian parliament for permission to indict him and another opposition lawmaker.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian demanded the resignation of Catholicos Garegin II on Monday amid growing support for the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church voiced by opposition and public figures, including former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Three people, including a police officer, were injured on Sunday when their cars collided on a highway in Armenia’s southern Ararat province just seconds after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade raced through it.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s opposition Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) is making another attempt to put a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his government.
Georgia’s agriculture minister has abruptly cancelled a visit to Armenia during which he was due to discuss major obstacles to the transit through Georgian territory of Armenian brandy exports to Russia.
Russia again played down its tensions with Armenia through the speaker of its upper house of parliament, Valentina Matvienko, who visited Yerevan and praised Russian-Armenian relations on Friday.
Two teenage residents of an Armenian border community, who were feared to have been detained by Azerbaijan, returned home on Friday evening less than 24 hours after their disappearance.
An ongoing campaign by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife purportedly aimed at educating Armenians but dismissed by critics as a political gimmick is financed by Armenia’s government, a senior official revealed on Friday.
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