The son of Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian was moved to house arrest against investigators’ wishes hours after being detained on Thursday on extortion charges described by his father as politically motivated.
The United States is planning to allocate $145 million for the implementation of a U.S.-brokered agreement to open a transit route for Azerbaijan passing through Armenia, a senior State Department official said during a visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday sought to rationalize Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s demands for would-be traffic between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia to be exempt from Armenian border checks.
Armenia’s government has moved to shorten compulsory military service in the country, prompting opposition claims that it is bowing to Azerbaijan’s demands to downsize the Armenian army.
The son of the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, Vartan Ghukasian, was arrested on Thursday in what the latter called a government attempt to intimidate or force him to resign.
The agreements reached by Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington last month did not fully resolve the long-running conflict between the two South Caucasus states, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan acknowledged on Wednesday.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Wednesday that a parliamentary vote of no confidence in the Armenian government is the best way to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Catholicos Garegin II was allowed to visit on Tuesday an outspoken archbishop who was arrested more than two months ago amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian called on Tuesday for Russia’s continued geopolitical presence in the South Caucasus, saying that it is essential for Armenia.
Acting on an extradition warrant issued by Russia, Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested a Georgian man who has reportedly fought against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Ignoring Nikol Pashinian’s objections, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday again described as “Zangezur corridor” a special transit route for Azerbaijan which the Armenian prime minister pledged to open during a recent summit in Washington.
An Armenian appeals court upheld on Monday a lower court’s decision to extend the pre-trial arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian, who is expected to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
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