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.
Senior Turkish and Armenian officials will meet in Armenia in the coming days for fresh talks on the normalization of relations between their countries.
More than 100 heavy trucks belonging to Armenia’s largest food exporting company, Spayka, reportedly remain stranded in Russia more than one week after being intercepted by authorities there for still unknown reasons.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday downplayed the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements signed in Washington last month, saying that they did not necessarily resolve the long-running conflict between the two South Caucasus nations.
Government delegations from Armenia and Azerbaijan meet on their border on Friday for further talks on its delimitation as well as transport links between the two South Caucasus states.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has issued an international arrest warrant for the former head of a state fund that was closed last year after failing to attract major foreign investment in Armenia.
Deputy Defense Minister Hrachya Sargsian insisted on Friday that he does not know yet whether the Armenian government is indeed planning to end significant annual increases in its defense expenditures that followed the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
One week after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to continue trying to depose him, Catholicos Garegin II accused Azerbaijan on Thursday of destroying Armenian churches in Nagorno-Karabakh and decried the “illegal” captivity of the region’s former leaders.
The Armenian government abruptly rescinded on Thursday its decision to pay a U.S. law firm $3.2 million to represent it in international arbitration hearings on the legality of its seizure of a company owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian.
The brother of Narek Mkrtchian, Armenia’s newly appointed ambassador to the United States, has been arrested on suspicion of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking.
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