Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin repeated Russia’s demands for Armenia to choose between joining the European Union and remaining part of a Russian-led bloc during his recent meeting with his Armenian counterpart Nikol Pashinian, a Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
A Yerevan-based lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian businessman jailed in Azerbaijan, said on Wednesday that she has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against a 20-year prison sentence given to him early this year.
Law-enforcement authorities have moved to arrest another senior member of billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia alliance in a continuing post-election crackdown on the Armenian opposition which critics say was ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prosecutors have dropped one of the criminal charges brought against jailed businessman Gagik Tsarukian following last month’s disputed parliamentary elections in which his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) was one of the main opposition contenders.
Hundreds of owners and workers of export-oriented Armenian fish farms protested on Tuesday against they called a lack of government assistance to their businesses hit increasingly hard by a Russian trade embargo.
UN human rights experts have questioned the credibility of coup charges that were brought against an outspoken Armenian archbishop and his supporters last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Avetis Arakelian, the acting opposition mayor of Gyumri, made clear on Monday that he will not take up his seat in Armenia’s newly elected parliament, all but ending media speculation about his resignation reportedly sought by the government.
Yet another former leader of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan has accused Armenia’s leadership of being indifferent to the fate of Armenian prisoners.
An Armenian opposition politician has not been allowed to see or talk by phone to her 13-year-old daughter and other relatives since being arrested last week on charges rejected by her as politically motivated.
Vartan Ghukasian, the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, was moved to house arrest on Friday after spending nine months in prison on what he sees as politically motivated charges.
A U.S. company is the new owner of Armenia’s second largest mining enterprise that belonged to a leading Russian bank until this month, according to official documents obtained by RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Russia has told Iran to stop supplying it with cut flowers, saying that they were most probably grown in neighboring Armenia and cannot be sold in the Russian market due to Moscow’s sanctions against Yerevan.
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