The prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used by most vehicles in Armenia have jumped by over 40 percent in recent days amid reports about serious hurdles to its import from Russia via neighboring Georgia.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has brought criminal charges against Diana Gasparian, the former pro-government mayor of the town of Vagharshapat who resigned two months ago, sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
The Armenian government on Monday ruled out the possibility of the United States taking over a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Five of the seven Armenian opposition activists arrested late last week on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks have been released without charge.
The European Union’s two top officials voiced support for Armenia’s “sovereignty, territorial integrity, and democratic reforms” when they met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Brussels on Monday.
Almost one month after his controversial arrest and prosecution, Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian announced on Monday that he is setting up his own political group that will challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Parish priests from across Armenia on Friday joined senior clergymen in reaffirming support for Catholicos Garegin II and condemning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
A group of angry greenhouse owners in the southern Armavir province demonstrated on Friday to demand that the Armenian government take urgent action over Russia’s serious restrictions on the import of cut flowers from Armenia.
Armenia’s energy regulator has refused to allow the national electric utility owned by jailed businessman Samvel Karapetian to invest an additional 7 billion drams ($18 million) in the country’s power distribution network ahead of its anticipated seizure by the government.
The United States, the European Union and Russia have welcomed fresh face-to-face talks held by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
A pro-Armenian member of the U.S. House of Representatives expressed serious concern on Thursday over last month’s arrests in Armenia of two archbishops and a billionaire businessman critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Seven more members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) were arrested on Thursday on charges or suspicion of “terrorism” dismissed by the opposition party as politically motivated.
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