Russia and Armenia remain allies despite continuing to disagree on some major issues, the foreign ministers of the two states said after talks held in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh met with his Armenian counterpart Suren Papikian on Tuesday during an official visit to Yerevan that came one month after a first-ever joint military exercise held by the two neighboring states.
Four days after talking to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during a European summit in Albania, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence on Tuesday that Armenia will accept his preconditions for signing a bilateral peace deal finalized in March.
Yerevan’s municipal administration has admitted suffering significant financial losses as a result of many commuters’ continuing boycott of a recent significant increase in the cost of public transport.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) again raided the headquarters of Yerevan’s municipal administration on Tuesday, arresting two more officials working there.
Former President Robert Kocharian has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of corruption and misrule and insisted that he can successfully deal with Armenia’s grave security challenges if he returns to power.
An Armenian journalist is facing criminal charges stemming from her coverage of angry protests that marred Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to the southeastern Syunik province four years ago.
Iran will not allow anyone to undermine its relations with neighboring Armenia, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reportedly told his visiting Armenian counterpart Armen Grigorian at the weekend.
The head of Yerevan’s northern Nor Nork district, Tigran Ter-Margarian, resigned on Monday almost three weeks after publicly beating up a video blogger critical of the municipal administration.
Two lawmakers expelled from the ruling Civil Contract party late last year said on Friday that they will put a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his government.
The Russian ambassador in Yerevan on Friday strongly condemned a senior Armenian official for claiming that Nazi Germany planned to create a “united Armenia” in case of defeating the Soviet Union in the Second World War.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke on the sidelines of a European Political Community summit held in Albania’s capital Tirana on Friday.
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