A senior adviser to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Yerevan on Wednesday for talks that focused on the planned creation of a U.S.-run transit corridor passing through Armenia.
A company owned by Gagik Tsarukian has asked an Armenian court to invalidate the expropriation of its large fitness center in Yerevan initiated by the municipal authorities amid a government crackdown on the jailed businessman and opposition leader.
The Armenian government is due to formally approve on Thursday $320 million in new foreign loans secured by it, adding to the country’s public debt that has more than doubled during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s rule.
Armenian banks have restructured over 30 billion drams ($81.5 million) in loans to farmers and firms affected by Russia’s recent bans on agricultural imports from Armenia, according to the country’s Central Bank.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry declined to comment on Tuesday on Italy’s calls for the European Union to deport en masse illegal migrants to third countries, including Armenia.
Armenia’s leadership may soon hold a constitutional referendum to meet Azerbaijan’s key precondition for signing a peace treaty between the two nations, a senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s leading university has fired one of its most renowned law professors, the latest in a series of sackings of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s critics or their relatives working in the public sector.
Armenia’s new parliament controlled by the ruling Civil Contract party elected its speaker on Monday during its inaugural session marked by bitter accusations traded by pro-government and opposition lawmakers.
An incoming deputy speaker of Armenia’s new parliament affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party insisted on Monday that a massive salary of his wife managing the national postal service is not the result of profligacy or corruption alleged by opposition lawmakers.
Opposition lawmakers made a point of visiting Catholicos Garegin and receiving his blessings late on Sunday after he was effectively barred from addressing the inaugural session of Armenia’s new parliament contrary to an established tradition.
A former government official who has denounced Armenia’s recent parliamentary election as fraudulent filed a defamation suit against Nikol Pashinian on Friday one day after the Armenian prime minister accused him of corruption and demanded criminal proceedings against him.
The Armenian authorities have officially seized another of the several dozen companies belonging to Gagik Tsarukian that were effectively closed by them on July 6 during the opposition leader’s arrest promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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