The head of Armenia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS), Kristine Grigorian, flew to Baku on Tuesday to attend an annual international conference organized by the Azerbaijani government.
Armenia’s two main opposition groups on Tuesday denounced as unconstitutional Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s plans to initiate a parliamentary inquiry into the Armenian Apostolic Church as part of his continuing efforts to oust its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II.
An Armenian opposition politician was moved to house arrest on Tuesday more than two months after being arrested on what she calls politically motivated charges.
A court in Yerevan on Tuesday acquitted a man who was arrested after using offensive language to attack Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during Armenia’s parliamentary election campaign.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed confidence that U.S.-Armenian relations will grow closer in the years ahead when he congratulated Armenians on their national independence holiday on Monday.
The Armenian government keeps trying to recover part of some $6 million controversially spent by it on American pop singer Jennifer Lopez’s concert in Yerevan last year, according to Education Minister Zhanna Andreasian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has continued to call on Russia to give up its long-term management of Armenia’s railway network amid fresh warnings to Yerevan issued by senior Russian officials.
An Armenian judge resumed the trial of Catholicos Garegin II on Friday three weeks after trying unsuccessfully to recuse himself from the unprecedented case brought amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Businessman Ruben Vardanyan, one of the 19 Armenian prisoners held by Azerbaijan, has urged the country’s human rights ombudswoman to meet with them and address what he called “violations of their rights” guaranteed by Azerbaijani law.
Senior Russian officials on Friday warned the Armenian government against seizing Russian-linked companies in Armenia in another sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Yerevan.
The Armenian government announced on Thursday plans to roughly double the salaries of its top officials and parliament deputies in addition to hefty bonuses regularly paid to them.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reiterated on Thursday that he is not seeking the withdrawal of Russian troops stationed in Armenia but would not object to it.
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