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critics or their relatives working in the public sector. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33801176.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33801176.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:42:54 +0400 in English An Armenian court has allowed prosecutors to confiscate around 630 million drams ($1.7 million) in cash, properties and other assets belonging to former President Serzh Sarkisian in a ruling denounced by his lawyer as illegal on Tuesday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33798812.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33798812.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:21:57 +0400 in English Municipal authorities in Yerevan have started removing murals of Armenian soldiers killed in fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, causing outrage among their families, opposition figures and other citizens. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33792125.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33792125.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:04:17 +0400 in English A prominent opposition politician allied to billionaire Samvel Karapetian was arrested and indicted on Wednesday in what Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s critics see as a post-election government crackdown on the Armenian opposition. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787953.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787953.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:45:23 +0400 in English Billionaire Samvel Karapetian proposed on Friday a run-off vote between his Strong Armenia alliance and the ruling Civil Contract party as he continued to reject the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33779277.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33779277.html Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:36:05 +0400 in English Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday that Armenia’s three main opposition forces must win no seats in the new National Assembly and at least one of their leaders will go to jail if he wins Sunday’s parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33773673.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33773673.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:34:16 +0400 in English Armenian law-enforcement authorities did not arrest or charge anyone on Wednesday one day after supporters of two key opposition groups running in the June 7 parliamentary elections were physically assaulted by government loyalists in separate incidents caught on camera. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33771992.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33771992.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:06:22 +0400 in English 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. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33768574.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33768574.html Fri, 29 May 2026 22:45:38 +0400 in English In a fresh statement circulated on Wednesday, Davit Ishkhanian, one of the eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan, claimed that Armenia’s leadership does not want Baku to free them. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33766850.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33766850.html Wed, 27 May 2026 18:41:25 +0400 in English Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading one of the three main opposition groups running in Armenia’s parliamentary elections, insisted on Tuesday that he remains undeterred by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledges to seize his business assets and properties. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33766115.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33766115.html Tue, 26 May 2026 21:49:00 +0400 in English Schoolchildren, their teachers and other public sector employees continue to attend Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign rallies during work and school hours in what Armenian election observers see as abuse of power by the ruling Civil Contract party. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33762783.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33762783.html Fri, 22 May 2026 21:45:15 +0400 in English Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team played down on Thursday Armenia’s mounting tensions with Russia and the resulting risk of Russian sanctions that could cripple the Armenian economy. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33761992.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33761992.html Thu, 21 May 2026 21:04:42 +0400 in English Yet another former leader of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan has condemned his and the other Armenian prisoners’ trials and accused Azerbaijani authorities of continuing to violate their rights. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33756853.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33756853.html Thu, 14 May 2026 16:58:38 +0400 in English Armenia’s government appears to be reluctant to publicize before the June 7 parliamentary elections its draft of a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33734640.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33734640.html Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:13:21 +0400 in English The chief of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s staff has initiated legal action aimed at ousting businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian as long-serving chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia (HAOK). https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33733872.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33733872.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:39:32 +0400 in English Andranik Kocharian, the controversial chairman of the Armenian parliament committee on defense, on Monday insulted another journalist and seemed to claim that his son exempt from compulsory military service is more intelligent that the country’s soldiers. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33726106.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33726106.html Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:43:45 +0400 in English Former President Serzh Sarkisian has said that his Republican Party (HHK) will encourage supporters to go to the polls and vote for other opposition groups following its decision not to run in the June 7 parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33725963.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33725963.html Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:29:14 +0400 in English Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again pledged on Friday to try to enact the kind of constitutional change that Azerbaijan has set as a necessary condition for ending the conflict with Armenia. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33704941.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33704941.html Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:49:07 +0400 in English Azerbaijan has advanced deeper into Armenia’s territory from some of the border areas seized by it after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian opposition leader claimed on Wednesday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33695285.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33695285.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:11:18 +0400 in English