Supporters of Gagik Tsarukian picketed the Iranian Embassy in Yerevan on Monday to urge it to help free the wealthy businessman and opposition leader arrested following last month’s Armenian parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s exports fell by over 20 percent year on year last month following unprecedented trade restrictions imposed by Russia, the South Caucasus country’s main trading partner, according to official statistics.
Following Russia’s threats to hike the price of its natural gas for Armenia, Armenian Infrastructures Minister Davit Khudatian discussed with senior Iranian officials in Tehran at the weekend the possibility of increasing Iranian gas supplies to his country.
A farmer critical of the Armenian government has been detained and held in police custody for 24 hours following a bitter political argument with a pro-government blogger who pledged to have him imprisoned.
A leading member of billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia alliance, who has been elected to the new Armenian parliament, was released from custody at the start of his trial on Friday.
Some of the Armenian prisoners held by Azerbaijan have suffered serious injuries in Azerbaijani jails, an Armenian human rights lawyer claimed on Friday, citing their families.
Russia has banned imports of dairy products from Armenia after imposing similar restrictions on other Armenian foodstuffs amid heightened tensions between the two nations.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have raided a shopping center just outside Yerevan to effectively shut down yet another business asset of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman who challenged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in last month’s parliamentary elections.
A court in Yerevan on Thursday refused to set free an opposition lawmaker who was reelected to Armenia’s parliament last month almost one year after being arrested on coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Former President Robert Kocharian’s Hayastan alliance, one of the two opposition groups holding seats in Armenia’s parliament, named on Thursday a new leader of its parliamentary group.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for “further steps” to end the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan when he telephoned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday the day after holding talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) on Wednesday allowed prosecutors to indict but not arrest the incoming parliamentary leader of Armenia’s largest opposition force facing a crackdown linked to last month’s parliamentary elections.
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