A former senior official from Armenia’s Investigative Committee was moved to house arrest on Friday two months after reportedly admitting organizing the theft of $590,000 in cash kept at the law-enforcement agency.
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.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reportedly told his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin on Thursday that he still has no plans to pull Armenia out of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-led trade bloc.
Russia criticized on Thursday the U.S. proposal to have an American company run a transport corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave passing through Armenia’s strategic Syunik region.
The Armenian government gave more indications on Thursday that it will not comply with an international arbitration panel’s order to stop the ongoing seizure of Armenia’s national electric utility owned by a jailed critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to abandon plans to storm the Echmiadzin headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church and to free instead two archbishops and other jailed critics described by him as political prisoners.
An international arbitration body has reportedly ordered the Armenian government to stop enforcing controversial legislation allowing it to seize Armenia’s national electric utility owned by Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire at odds with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Iran tops the list of foreign states described by Armenians as their country’s leading allies in an opinion poll released by the Washington-based International Republican Institute (IRI) late on Monday.
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian on Tuesday discussed with the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Kristina Kvien, possible transport links between Armenia and Azerbaijan which have prompted a far-reaching proposal from the United States.
Most Armenians do not think that their country is heading in the right direction and only 13 percent of them trust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, according to a U.S.-funded opinion poll conducted last month.
The Armenian Apostolic Church accused of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday of planning a violent attack on its Echmiadzin headquarters one day after he urged supporters to get ready to remove Catholicos Garegin II from there.
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