Some provisions of a U.S.-Armenian agreement to open a U.S.-run transit corridor for Azerbaijan through Armenia run counter to Armenian law, according to the Justice Ministry in Yerevan.
The Armenian government has officially seized two of the several dozen companies belonging to Gagik Tsarukian that were effectively closed by them last week during the opposition leader’s arrest promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian sounded a note of caution on Thursday as the Armenian government approved new licensing rules aimed at helping local fish farms blacklisted by Russia redirect their exports to the European Union.
The International Olympic Committee (OIC) said on Thursday that it is looking into ways to “protect” Armenia’s National Olympic Committee (ANOC) seized by the Armenian authorities as part of a crackdown on Gagik Tsarukian, a businessman and opposition leader heading the ANOC.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have not prosecuted any of their officers in connection with the death of a man arrested two months ago for tearing down an election campaign poster of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party.
The wife of an Armenian prisoner of war who has been held in Azerbaijan for nearly six years expressed on Wednesday serious concern about what she described as a sharp deterioration of his health.
Businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian denounced the Armenian authorities on Wednesday for effectively shutting down dozens of his companies as part of a post-election crackdown promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The U.S. State Department has appointed a Russian-born American entrepreneur as chairman of a $200 million fund tasked with facilitating the creation of a U.S.-run transit corridor passing through Armenia.
Hundreds more workers of companies owned by jailed businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian protested on Tuesday against their effective closure by the Armenian authorities.
Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, visited the Iranian Embassy in Yerevan on Monday to pay respects to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his burial last week.
In what she sees as political retribution, an accomplished Armenian doctor has been fired from a state policlinic two months after bitterly arguing with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during his parliamentary election campaign in Yerevan.
The European Union on Monday officially launched a new mission to Armenia which it said will help the Armenian government cope with “hybrid threats” emanating from abroad, presumably Russia.
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