Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, made clear on Tuesday that he will not resign even if he is arrested by the Armenian authorities seeking to depose him.
Five days before Armenia’s parliamentary elections, law-enforcement authorities on Tuesday arrested a senior member of billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia bloc and raided several campaign offices of another major opposition contender led by former President Robert Kocharian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian criticized on Tuesday Russia’s decisions to ban key imports from Armenia which highlight heightened tensions between Moscow and Yerevan ahead of the June 7 Armenian parliamentary elections.
Russia banned more imports from Armenia on Monday, imposing “temporary restrictions” on the sale of Armenian fruits just days before the country’s crucial parliamentary elections.
Law-enforcement authorities have refused to launch a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledge to “take out” Armenia’s top opposition leaders and his insults and threats addressed to refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.
Opposition leaders running in Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections have blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for Russia’s widening bans on the import of Armenian goods and warned of their devastating impact on the domestic economy.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday rejected Russian-led calls for Armenia to finally decide whether to remain part of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) or continue seeking membership of the European Union.
Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest outburst against Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled ethnic Armenian leadership, an Armenian court has allowed authorities to seize the building of its permanent representation in Yerevan.
Russia and three other ex-Soviet states making up the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) pressed Armenia on Friday to decide “as soon as possible” whether to remain part of the Russian-led trade bloc or continue seeking membership of the European Union.
Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan on Friday urged Armenia’s leading agribusiness firms heavily dependent on the Russian market to diversify their exports after Moscow banned the import of Armenian flowers, vegetables and strawberry amid heightened tensions with Yerevan.
Russia announced on Thursday “temporary restrictions” on the import of more products from Armenia, stepping up economic pressure on the Armenian government accused by it of pursuing an anti-Russian foreign policy.
Armenia demonstrated on Thursday new weapons acquired by it from India, France, China and Iran in recent years during a military parade in Yerevan seen by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s critics as a pre-election publicity stunt.
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