President Armen Sarkissian offered on Wednesday to host talks between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and opposition leaders aimed at ending the political crisis in Armenia.
The Armenian government has forced the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF to recall its permanent representative in Armenia, Marianne Clark-Hattingh.
Law-enforcement authorities have reportedly brought criminal charges against a veteran Armenian politician who has said that opposition forces trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be ready to stage an uprising.
A correspondent and a cameraman of RFE/RL’s Armenian Service were assaulted while covering an opposition demonstration in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Dozens of members and supporters of an Armenian opposition alliance were detained on Tuesday as they attempted to stop Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from entering a government building in Yerevan.
Police launched criminal proceedings against a veteran Armenian politician on Monday after he said that opposition forces trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be ready to stage an uprising.
Four anti-government activists were arrested and indicted over the weekend for allegedly creating a social media account that regularly spreads offensive comments about Armenia’s leadership.
Traffic was brought to a standstill in much of central Yerevan on Saturday as an alliance of more than a dozen Armenian opposition parties resumed street protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
An Armenian court on Thursday again adjourned a trial of former President Serzh Sarkisian following the death of another defendant.
In a move condemned by press freedom groups, Armenian prosecutors have drafted legislation that would make defamation of government, law-enforcement and other state officials a crime punishable by up to two years in prison.
Representatives of three major Nagorno-Karabakh parties have put forward a bill that would make Russian the Armenian-populated territory’s second official language.
An outspoken lawmaker announced on Tuesday his decision to leave Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), citing differences with the country’s largest parliamentary opposition force.
Armenian media organizations have accused the government of trying to restrict press freedom with bills that would sharply increase fines for libel and make it harder for journalists to use anonymous sources.
European Union member states have completed the ratification of the EU’s Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Armenia which was signed more than three years ago.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have exchanged more prisoners in line with the Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 10.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a London-based think-tank, has downgraded Armenia’s position in its annual survey of the state of democracy around the world.
Opposition leaders accused the Armenian parliament of undermining judicial independence on Wednesday as it approved a government proposal to hire new judges who will deal only with corruption cases or pre-trial arrests of criminal suspects.
Law-enforcement authorities arrested five protesters who clashed with riot police while demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation on Thursday.
In a move sought by Yerevan, Russia’s government has provisionally lifted a coronavirus-related entry ban for Armenian nationals which has aggravated Armenia’s economic problems.
Opposition leaders denounced on Monday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s reported plans to appoint a senior but politically inexperienced lawmaker as Armenia’s new ambassador to the United States.
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