In what opposition lawmakers see as a pre-election ploy and serious threat to national security, the Armenian government pressed ahead on Monday with its controversial plans to shorten compulsory military service in the country.
An opposition party running in local elections in western Armenia has condemned what it describes as the abduction of one of its supporters in the town of Etchmiadzin.
Opposition candidates running in municipal elections in a western Armenian community have accused the ruling Civil Contract party of exploiting administrative resources ahead of the vote.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has imposed a travel ban on former President Serzh Sarkisian over a criminal case stemming from 2019 testimony that his lawyer and political allies argue was already disproved at the time.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian said on Wednesday that his opposition Republican Party (HHK) has not abandoned plans to put a motion of no confidence in Armenia’s government despite the arrest of its candidate to replace Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II, the Armenian parliament approved on Wednesday government-backed legislation allowing authorities to halt broadcasts of a TV channel controlled by the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian pledged to continue campaigning for a change of Armenia’s government at the weekend as his opposition movement claimed to have enlisted 5,000 members since being launched in late August.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged on Wednesday to “throw out” the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri who took office in April following the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a local election.
A woman fired from an Armenian government agency last week has accused her former boss of organizing a brutal attack on her husband reported on Monday.
An Armenian appeals court upheld on Monday a lower court’s decision to extend the pre-trial arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian, who is expected to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
In response to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial statements, the main opposition Hayastan alliance has again drafted legislation toughening punishment for anyone who denies or questions the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
The Armenian government publicized on Friday a nonbinding agreement with the United States which, contrary to some speculation, says nothing explicit about a transit corridor for Azerbaijan that would pass through Armenia.
The Armenian government’s controversial decision to significantly reduce financial aid to refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh is also having serious ramifications for those of them who are enrolled at Armenia’s universities and colleges.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership has appealed to countries making up the Organization for Security and Cooperation to block Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s joint efforts to disband its Minsk Group formed in 1992 to deal with the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian appeared to have failed to dispel neighboring Iran’s concerns about his decision to grant the United States exclusive rights to a transit corridor for Azerbaijan during talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian held in Yerevan on Tuesday.
The Armenian government has turned down a U.S. proposal to lease a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, according to a senior lawmaker allied to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian appeals court has ordered a law-enforcement agency to launch criminal investigations into two supporters of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian who have made offensive comments about refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on social media.
The Armenian authorities have moved to seize the building of Nagorno-Karabakh’s permanent representation in Yerevan that currently houses the region’s exiled leadership.
Pro-government members of Armenia’s parliament brawled with their opposition colleagues on Tuesday before allowing prosecutors to arrest one of them on coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
One week after being arrested on coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated, Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Tuesday continued accusing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of misrule and promising to deal with grave challenges facing Armenia.
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