Meeting with parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov deplored the Armenian government’s implicit claims about Russia’s meddling in Armenia’s upcoming legislative elections which have been picked up by the European Union.
Five former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh were sentenced to life imprisonment and two others received 20-year jail terms on Thursday at the end of their yearlong trial in Azerbaijan condemned by Armenian human rights activists as a travesty of justice.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian reaffirmed on Wednesday her pledge to have a new Armenian constitution, demanded by Azerbaijan, drafted before the end of next month.
Two international religious rights groups based in Europe have strongly condemned the Armenian government’s intensifying pressure on the Armenian Apostolic Church and demanded the immediate release of four senior clerics arrested last year.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev praised progress in the implementation of their U.S.-brokered agreements when they met in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
A court in Yerevan on Tuesday extended by two months the pre-trial arrest of one of the three Armenian archbishops arrested last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian said on Tuesday that his Republican Party (HHK), one of the two opposition groups represented in the current Armenian parliament, has still not decided whether to run in the upcoming general elections.
Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Davit Khudatian could not say on Tuesday when the European Union will allow airlines registered in Armenia to resume flights to EU member states.
General Anil Chauhan, the chief of India’s Defense Staff, met with Armenia’s top military officials in Yerevan on Monday during an official visit highlighting close military ties between the two nations.
Dozens of Christian chaplains have been removed from the Armenian army ranks after reportedly refusing to back Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial attempts to oust the supreme head of the Armenian Apostoli Church, Catholicos Garegin II.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have indicted six more bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church, raising to ten the total number of senior clergymen prosecuted amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Russia remains interested in having a stake in a planned U.S.-run transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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