In what opposition lawmakers see as a pre-election ploy and serious threat to national security, the Armenian government pressed ahead on Monday with its controversial plans to shorten compulsory military service in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has claimed that Armenia’s public debt has more than doubled during his time in office mainly because of arms acquisitions, prompting strong rebuttals from opposition politicians and some analysts.
Kazakhstan would like to make use of a planned U.S.-administered corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday.
Human rights activists joined on Friday opposition leaders and lawyers in condemning Armenian authorities for extending the five-month arrest of the only female defendant in the ongoing trial of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his 17 supporters.
Russia has defended the track record of Armenia’s national electric utility owned by jailed Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian but stopped short of explicitly criticizing the company’s controversial seizure by the authorities in Yerevan.
A district court in Yerevan on Thursday extended by three more months the arrest of the only female defendant in the ongoing trial of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his 17 supporters facing coup charges denied by them.
The son of Vartan Ghukasian, the recently jailed opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, was arrested on Thursday for a second time in just over two months.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday that he expects the United States to help secure the release of the 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, citing a promise given to him by President Donald Trump.
Armenia’s leadership on Thursday objected to Turkey’s continuing precondition for normalizing bilateral relations and use of an Azerbaijani term for a would-be land corridor through Armenia.
The two opposition groups represented in Armenia’s parliament will rally supporters and introduce a joint parliamentary resolution to demand the release of dozens of critics of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian arrested in recent months.
One day after a Yerevan court extended his pre-trial arrest by two more months, billionaire Samvel Karapetian assured supporters on Wednesday that his recently established opposition movement will unseat Armenia’s government “in just a few months.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has made clear that the normalization of his country’s relations with neighboring Armenia remains conditional on the signing of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
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