The government will continue to strengthen Armenia’s armed forces despite reaching peace agreements with Azerbaijan and cutting defense its spending this year, Defense Minister Suren Papikian insisted on Tuesday.
Armenia’s government remains reluctant to provide lawyers representing an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed by Azerbaijan with medical records which they say could facilitate his release from prison.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a major opposition party, signaled on Tuesday plans to maintain its alliance with former President Robert Kocharian ahead of this year’s parliamentary elections.
Police remained deployed around the offices of a pro-government bishop on Monday in an apparent effort to prevent the Armenian Apostolic Church from enforcing Catholicos Garegin II’s decision to dismiss him as head of a diocese just south of Yerevan.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador in Yerevan on Monday to protest against a Kremlin-linked television host’s calls for Moscow to consider invading Armenia and other ex-Soviet states.
Russia remains Armenia’s by far the most important commercial partner even after a sharp fall in bilateral trade recorded last year, according to Armenian government data released on Monday.
The two hosts of an Armenian pro-opposition podcast went on trial on Friday two months after being arrested for verbally abusing parliament speaker Alen Simonian in response to his personal insults.
The Armenian authorities appear to have still not tried to reach a negotiated settlement with the parent company of the national electric utility almost two months after controversially stripping it of its operating license.
Armenia is importing a second batch of fuel from Azerbaijan in line with recent agreements reached by the governments of the two states, Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan announced on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian dismissed on Thursday growing accusations that he is abusing his powers and violating Armenia’s constitution in his drive to oust the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi met with senior officials in Yerevan on Thursday amid Tehran’s lingering concerns about the Armenian government’s plans to open a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan.
Vartan Ghukasian, the jailed opposition mayor of Gyumri, has been hospitalized for a second time in two months, one of his lawyers said on Thursday.
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