The head of Yerevan’s northern Nor Nork district avoided arrest on Wednesday after beating up, together with several other men, a civic activist and video blogger highly critical of the municipal administration.
The Armenian government suspended on Wednesday its controversial decision to largely end housing allowances for many refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh which sparked angry protests in Yerevan.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Tuesday criticized one of its archbishops based in Europe for praising Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s policies opposed by Catholicos Garegin II and other top clergymen.
An Armenian judge known for sanctioning the arrests of opposition figures was detained on Tuesday in a criminal investigation conducted by the country’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC).
Amnesty International criticized on Tuesday the use of force against participants of last spring’s antigovernment protests in Armenia sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Former President Robert Kocharian said that while Armenian opposition groups can work together in trying to remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from power they should not be expected to form a single electoral alliance.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has pledged to investigate a pro-government website editor and blogger over their offensive comments about disgruntled refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian soldiers are reportedly taking part in a NATO-led military exercise that began in neighboring Georgia on Monday.
Economic growth in Armenia will continue to slow down this year amid dwindling positive side effects of Western sanctions against Russia, according to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has said that his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has devised a new plan to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian but refused to shed light on it.
Critics of the Armenian government expressed on Friday serious concern over an apparent lack of progress in a yearlong investigation into the alleged torture of an opposition supporter arrested for insulting a pro-government lawmaker.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declined to describe the 1915 mass killings of Armenians as genocide, breaking with his predecessor Joe Biden’s policy and drawing strong condemnation from a key Armenian-American group.
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