Iran tops the list of foreign states described by Armenians as their country’s leading allies in an opinion poll released by the Washington-based International Republican Institute (IRI) late on Monday.
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian on Tuesday discussed with the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Kristina Kvien, possible transport links between Armenia and Azerbaijan which have prompted a far-reaching proposal from the United States.
Most Armenians do not think that their country is heading in the right direction and only 13 percent of them trust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, according to a U.S.-funded opinion poll conducted last month.
The Armenian Apostolic Church accused of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday of planning a violent attack on its Echmiadzin headquarters one day after he urged supporters to get ready to remove Catholicos Garegin II from there.
A maverick opposition politician was arrested and charged with calling for a violent overthrow of Armenia’s government at the weekend after saying that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be “thrown out” of office.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian spoke with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian by phone at the weekend after other senior officials from the two neighboring states discussed prospects for Armenian-Azerbaijani transport links relevant to Tehran.
The Armenian government indicated on Monday that it still disagrees with Baku on some practical modalities of a transport corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian met with Iran’s ambassador in Yerevan on Friday one day after top security officials from the two neighboring states discussed practical modalities of Armenian-Azerbaijani transport links.
The Armenian authorities appointed on Friday an “interim manager” of the national electric utility owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian in what is widely seen as the first step towards its effective seizure and possible sale to other investors.
One week after arresting an opposition activist and then releasing him without charge, Armenian law-enforcement authorities have still not returned a mobile phone confiscated from his father, parliament deputy Gegham Manukian.
An Armenian priest in Russia has refused to allow an Armenian pro-government lawmaker strongly supporting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II to be the godfather at the baptism of a child.
Senior Iranian and Armenian security officials spoke by phone on Thursday the day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled readiness to let a U.S. company run a transport corridor for Azerbaijan passing through an Armenian region bordering Iran.
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