Russia on Wednesday criticized the European Union’s plans to deploy a “hybrid rapid response team” ahead of Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections while offering to send a similar mission to the country.
A video blogger and activist highly critical of Yerevan’s municipal authorities claimed on Tuesday that the Armenian military has illegally called him up for short service in a bid to “silence” him ahead of the June 7 parliamentary elections.
A coalition of Western press freedom groups has for the first time included Armenia on its list of countries in wider Europe jailing journalists or other media figures.
The Armenian government has not yet made a final decision to end Russia’s management of Armenia’s railway network, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday.
The first group of Armenians stranded in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states due to Iran’s war with the United States and Israel returned to Yerevan early on Tuesday on a special flight from Oman.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian lavished praise on billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Monday, effectively endorsing him ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections.
The Armenian government believes that neighboring Iran’s escalating war with the United States and Israel poses no security threats to Armenia, senior officials in Yerevan said on Monday.
Armenia’s leaders on Monday offered condolences to neighboring Iran over the deaths of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, other senior officials and ordinary citizens killed in ongoing U.S.-Israeli air strikes and called for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
Armenia’s political leadership reacted cautiously and, according to its critics, belatedly on Sunday to the joint massive attack on neighboring Iran launched by the United States and Israel.
Senior Russian and Armenian government officials discussed the restoration of two short sections of Armenia’s Russian-run railway network leading to the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders during talks in Yerevan on Friday.
The Georgian government has yet to explain why dozens of Armenian trucks carrying construction materials from Russia have been held up in Georgia and not allowed to proceed to Armenia for the last two weeks, according to Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his influential wife, Anna Hakobian, announced the breakup of their longtime de facto marriage on Friday in a surprise move dismissed by their detractors as a pre-election ploy.
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