The Armenian government has still not addressed Iran’s concerns about its plans to open a U.S.-run transit corridor along Armenia’s border with the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian diplomat indicated on Wednesday five days after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to Tehran.
A lion belonging to Gagik Tsarukian died on Tuesday the day after being confiscated by Armenian law-enforcement authorities as part of a crackdown on the opposition leader promised by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian court has allowed prosecutors to confiscate around 630 million drams ($1.7 million) in cash, properties and other assets belonging to former President Serzh Sarkisian in a ruling denounced by his lawyer as illegal on Tuesday.
Billionaire Samvel Karapetian insisted on Tuesday that his Strong Armenia alliance is right to take up its seats in the new Armenian parliament without protesting against the official results of last month’s parliamentary elections in the streets.
Businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian strongly denied early on Tuesday new criminal charges that led to his arrest condemned by his party and other Armenian opposition groups as politically motivated.
Amid heightened tensions between Moscow and Yerevan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with his Russian counterpart Mikahil Mishustin on Monday on the sidelines of an international trade exhibition in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities arrested opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian on Monday after searching his home and the offices of his key companies in mass raids linked by his aides to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledges to “dispossess” his main political foes.
Armenia’s two leading opposition groups have decided to take up their seats in the country’s new parliament despite rejecting as fraudulent the official results of the June 7 elections that gave victory to the ruling Civil Contract party.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Saturday rejected opposition demands to annul the official results of last month’s parliamentary elections that gave victory to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party.
The judge presiding over the trial of Samvel Karapetian, a billionaire businessman leading Armenia’s largest opposition group, insisted on Friday that he is not acting on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s orders.
Opposition lawmakers pledged on Friday to ask the Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional a new law that will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenians living abroad and Russia in particular.
“Extra-regional” powers must not be allowed to interfere in Armenia’s relations with neighboring Iran, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian told Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during talks in Tehran on Friday.
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