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more bans on agricultural imports from Armenia and lambasted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33764405.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33764405.html Mon, 25 May 2026 17:08:04 +0400 in English Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was accused of intensifying a crackdown on his key election challengers on Friday as law-enforcement authorities searched the homes and offices of two prominent opposition figures allied to Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33762553.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33762553.html Fri, 22 May 2026 15:24:32 +0400 in English A genuine peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible only if it is guaranteed by major foreign powers, former President Robert Kocharian insisted on Wednesday as he campaigned for next month’s parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33756215.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33756215.html Wed, 13 May 2026 21:27:42 +0400 in English A resident of Gyumri went on trial on Thursday three months after describing as a “clown” the head of an Armenian law-enforcement agency prosecuting Catholicos Garegin II and other senior clergymen at odds with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33746550.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33746550.html Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:24:19 +0400 in English An Armenian civic group has accused the ruling Civil Contract party of forcing schoolteachers and kindergarten workers to attend a pre-election concert in Gyumri organized by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Sunday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33737373.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33737373.html Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:08:20 +0400 in English Six people died and eleven others were seriously injured on Friday in one of the worst car accidents reported in Armenia in recent years. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33729579.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33729579.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:55:47 +0400 in English A top aide to former President Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Tuesday that his Armenian National Congress (HAK) is discussing with billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s opposition movement the possibility of joining forces for the upcoming parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33700699.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33700699.html Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:11:44 +0400 in English An Armenian opposition supporter has been arrested and prosecuted for making what her lawyer described on Monday as a disparaging statement about Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his family in a private message sent online. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33686207.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33686207.html Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:29:40 +0400 in English One of the Armenian archbishops prosecuted amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against Catholicos Garegin II was greeted by scores of believers on Tuesday as he was taken back to Gyumri to serve his house arrest there. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33680802.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33680802.html Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:58:32 +0400 in English Two journalists working for an independent Armenian newspaper were forcibly removed from the parliament building in Yerevan on Friday after being controversially stripped of their accreditation. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33651418.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33651418.html Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:50:34 +0400 in English Vartan Ghukasian, the jailed opposition mayor of Gyumri, has been hospitalized for a second time in two months, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33643245.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33643245.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:01:45 +0400 in English Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped a criminal charge against the jailed opposition mayor of Gyumri stemming from his calls for closer ties between Armenia and Russia. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33639123.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33639123.html Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:18:55 +0400 in English 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. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33633530.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33633530.html Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:21:16 +0400 in English One week after reports emerged about his impending sacking by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, the governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province said on Tuesday that he still does not know whether he will retain his post. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33631222.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33631222.html Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:28:16 +0400 in English The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province cancelled a planned news conference at the last minute on Wednesday amid reports that he will be sacked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after just one year in office. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33625838.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33625838.html Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:16:59 +0400 in English Priests serving at the main church of Gyumri were forced to leave it ahead of a Sunday mass held there by renegade clerics as part of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s intensifying efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33616257.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33616257.html Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:06:26 +0400 in English Investigators arrested two more local government officials in Gyumri on Friday in connection with angry protests that broke out on October 20 during the arrest of the city’s opposition mayor, Vartan Ghukasian. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33614510.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33614510.html Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:14:51 +0400 in English Vartan Ghukasian, the jailed opposition mayor of Gyumri, said on Tuesday that he will not cut any deals with the Armenian authorities to regain his freedom despite yet another accusation levelled against him. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33605468.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33605468.html Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:10:08 +0400 in English The son of Vartan Ghukasian, the recently jailed opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, was arrested on Thursday for a second time in just over two months. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33597479.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33597479.html Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:46:33 +0400 in English