Amid heavy police presence, tensions remained high on Tuesday in a major rural community just west of Yerevan two weeks after the killing of its opposition mayor.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian continued to offer on Tuesday differing interpretations of their U.S.-brokered agreement to open a special transit route for Azerbaijan through a key Armenian region.
One week after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to “throw out” the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, police tried to impound his private limousine on Tuesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian denounced on Tuesday the recent Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying that Armenia will effectively give up control of its border with Iran and gain nothing in return.
Speaker Alen Simonian has formally classified the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh after unexpectedly blocking their discussion on the parliament floor.
The uncle of an Armenian soldier who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested on Monday one week after actively participating in a demonstration outside the Defense Ministry in Yerevan.
A U.S. court has reportedly issued a deportation order for a notorious Armenian blogger with political ambitions who is wanted in Armenia for alleged fraud, extortion and calls for violence.
At least several dozen drivers of Armenian commercial trucks regularly transporting goods to Russia are facing travel bans or deportation from the country due to a significant toughening of Russian immigration laws.
An outspoken archbishop was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday three months after being arrested amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
A political ally of Nikol Pashinian confirmed on Friday that the Armenian prime minister intends to depose the opposition mayor of Gyumri who took office in April following the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a local election.
U.S. customs and immigration officials have arrived in Armenia for what the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan described on Friday as the first step to towards opening a U.S.-administered transit route for Azerbaijan through a key Armenian region.
The European Union’s two top officials hailed recent U.S.-brokered agreements as a “crucial step” towards a resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict when they met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Copenhagen on Thursday.
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