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.
The wife of Viken Euljekian, one of the 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, on Tuesday renewed her appeals for his release, saying that he is not receiving adequate medical care despite his worsened health.
An Armenian court on Tuesday extended by two more months the pre-trial arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian, who is expected to be one of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s main challengers in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Five members of an Armenian opposition group were detained and indicted late on Monday the day after it finished second in a local election won by the ruling Civil Contract party.
The municipal council of Masis, a small town about 20 kilometers south of Yerevan, voted on Monday to replace its recently arrested Mayor Davit Hambardzumian by his first deputy.
Amid ongoing international arbitration proceedings, the Armenian authorities took on Monday another step towards nationalizing the national electric utility owned by Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire emerging as a major opposition figure.
With the decisive help of rural voters, Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party won a local election held on Sunday in a district near Yerevan comprising the town of Vagharshapat and 17 villages.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker visited Yerevan on Monday for further talks with Armenian leaders on practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan which would pass through a key Armenian region.
An event modeled on the U.S. tradition of holding National Prayer Breakfasts took place in Armenia on November 14, bringing together around 300 local and international guests.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal has upheld a lower-court ruling keeping Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetian in pretrial detention, rejecting a complaint filed by his legal team five months after his arrest.
Yerevan is discussing with Washington the possibility of granting construction rights for the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) project for either 99 or 49 years, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday.
Prosecutors in Azerbaijan have requested prison terms ranging from 16 years to life for former political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as other Armenian detainees, during an ongoing trial in Baku.
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