Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sacked his chief of protocol on Monday two days after publicly mistaking the name of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov’s country during their meeting in Yerevan.
Echoing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s statements, the secretary of Armenia’s Security Council on Friday downplayed the October 1 shooting of an Armenian woman by an Azerbaijani soldier who crossed into the country’s Syunik province in still unclear circumstances.
Two senior Armenian military officials have been sacked following the capture of an Azerbaijani soldier who crossed into Armenia and attacked members of a local family.
An Armenian woman who was seriously wounded by an Azerbaijani soldier in her home on October 1 insisted on Monday that he held her two children hostage and tried to kill them when she came to their rescue.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that an Armenian woman treated for serious injuries in hospital should not have taken on an armed Azerbaijani soldier who broke into her house and reportedly held her children at the gunpoint last week.
Armenian investigators pressed on Friday multiple charges against an Azerbaijani soldier who was arrested after crossing into Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province and attacking members of a local family.
Armenian security forces arrested on Thursday an Azerbaijani serviceman who they said crossed into Armenia’s Syunik province and wounded a local resident.
Azerbaijan has again denied the Armenian origin of Nagorno-Karabakh’s most famous medieval church, drawing strong condemnation from Armenian opposition leaders and exiled Karabakh activists but no official reaction from Yerevan.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has called for an investigation into claims that a local entrepreneur is seeking to “create the impression” that his businesses are linked to the prime minister’s family.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has declined to say whether Yerevan has formally asked Azerbaijan to allow diplomats from a third country to visit Armenian prisoners held in Baku, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
Former President Robert Kocharian was formally remanded in custody on Thursday despite being hospitalized again two days after being arrested on what he and his opposition Hayastan alliance see as politically motivated charges.
Robert Kocharian, a former Armenian president leading one of the country’s main opposition groups, was arrested on Tuesday the day after his younger son Levon bitterly argued with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in the parliament.
Opposition lawmakers walked out of the Armenian parliament on Monday after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian derided Catholicos Garegin II and accused him of obstructing peace with Azerbaijan.
Armenia has asked a third country to have its diplomats visit Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan said on Friday.
At least four senior military officials have been sacked due to continuing noncombat deaths of Armenian soldiers which have reignited calls for Defense Minister Suren Papikian’s resignation.
Armenia’s two leading opposition groups said on Wednesday that they will fight hard to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from enacting a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
One month after being arrested on charges rejected by her as politically motivated, an Armenian opposition politician is still not allowed to see or even talk by phone to her 13-year-old daughter and other relatives.
Armenia’s leadership may soon hold a constitutional referendum to meet Azerbaijan’s key precondition for signing a peace treaty between the two nations, a senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s government is keen to significantly increase imports of natural gas from neighboring Iran, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Davit Khudatian confirmed on Tuesday after a weekend visit to Tehran.
Some of the Armenian prisoners held by Azerbaijan have suffered serious injuries in Azerbaijani jails, an Armenian human rights lawyer claimed on Friday, citing their families.
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