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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 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. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33693323.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33693323.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:29:02 +0400 in English Defense Minister Suren Papikian defended on Friday his decision to expel from Armenia’s armed forces all Armenian Apostolic Church chaplains remaining loyal to Catholicos Garegin II. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33671471.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33671471.html Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:18:50 +0400 in English A government-appointed task force will not manage to draft within the next few months a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan, one of its members said on Friday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33664990.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33664990.html Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:03:28 +0400 in English Ignoring strong opposition objections, the Armenian parliament hastily approved on Friday government-backed legislation that will make it easier for authorities to bar local groups from monitoring the country’s upcoming general elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33657838.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33657838.html Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:15:35 +0400 in English An Armenian appeals court has declared illegal a recent search conducted in the home of an independent expert who concluded that billionaire Samvel Karapetian did not call for a violent regime change before being arrested in June. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33656941.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33656941.html Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:55:09 +0400 in English Faced with accusations of “political corruption,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday defended massive yearend bonuses paid to himself and other senior government officials, saying that the money will make them less prone to corruption. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33649866.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33649866.html Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:32:57 +0400 in English 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. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33646958.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33646958.html Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:55:37 +0400 in English Helped by police, local government officials in the central Armenian town of Talin barred priests from entering a local church on Tuesday, enabling a defrocked cleric loyal to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to hold a Christmas mass there. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33641547.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33641547.html Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:00:48 +0400 in English