A Yerevan court on Tuesday unexpectedly agreed to move to house arrest Samvel Karapetian, a Russian-Armenian billionaire who was jailed in June before pledging to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
The Armenian opposition accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday of continuing to crack down on dissent ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections after eight more opposition members and supporters were arrested overnight.
Russia has expressed concern over a new policy framework for deepening Armenia’s relations the European Union, saying that it calls into question the South Caucasus country’s continued membership in a Russian-led trade bloc.
Armenian prosecutors said on Monday that they are looking into calls for the murder of Catholicos Garegin II voiced by a supporter of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian outside a rural church.
The Armenian Apostolic Church is being subjected in Armenia to “state repression” which serves geopolitical interests of Azerbaijan and Turkey, according to the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on some major issues, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said at the weekend, pointing to Baku’s key precondition for signing an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
The Armenian government has no plans to drive Russia out of Armenia despite its continuing efforts to move closer to the West, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan insisted at the weekend.
Prompting concern from press freedom groups, the Armenian government has moved to enact legislation that would ban broadcasters from airing reports or programs deemed “harmful” to national security.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday nominated its candidate for the post of prime minister but indicated that it still hopes to forge an election alliance with other opposition groups.
Workers of a Chinese company contracted to build a $112 million irrigation reservoir in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province have left the country, heralding the failure of another infrastructure project overseen by the Armenian government.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament on Thursday defended huge yearend bonuses that have been paid to its members and staffers, costing taxpayers at least 545 million drams ($1.4 million).
Three days after his latest visit to Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday renewed his calls for the Russian operator of Armenia’s railway network to quickly restore its sections leading to the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders.
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