Armenian law-enforcement authorities claimed to have solved the killing of the opposition head of a major rural community just west of Yerevan after arresting two suspects over the weekend.
Armenia’s leadership remains reluctant to publicize past international proposals to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in response to calls by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and other opposition leaders blaming it for the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev of effectively making territorial claims against Armenia but again claimed that “peace has been established” between the two South Caucasus countries.
Opposition lawmakers condemned on Friday the Armenian government’s plans to cut its defense expenditures by more than 15 percent next year, saying that they represent yet another unilateral concession to Azerbaijan.
The outgoing Iranian ambassador to Armenia on Friday signaled Tehran’s lingering concerns about the Armenian government’s decision to let the United States administer a transit corridor for Azerbaijan adjacent to Iran.
Armenia’s police and Investigative Committee sacked on Friday two of their top officials in the Armavir province where the opposition head of a major local community was shot dead earlier this week.
Russian-Armenian relations are growing “in all areas,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during talks held in the Kremlin on Thursday night.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reaffirmed his government’s declared plans to build a new nuclear plant to replace Armenia’s aging facility at Metsamor when he attended an international forum on atomic energy in Moscow on Thursday.
Amid a continuing military buildup in Azerbaijan, the Armenian government announced on Thursday plans to cut its defense expenditures by more than 15 percent next year.
A Yerevan court on Wednesday passed a guilty verdict in the unusually quick trial of an outspoken archbishop who was arrested in June amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
An indicted man who used to hold government positions in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh was found dead at the Armenian consulate in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg early on Wednesday.
In a renewed war of words with Nikol Pashinian, former President Ter-Petrosian on Wednesday again challenged the Armenian prime minister to publicize all peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh made by international mediators before the 2020 war.
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