https://www.azatutyun.am/z/1089 «Ազատություն» ռադիոկայանի կայքէջի անգլերեն բաժինը https://www.azatutyun.am/Content/responsive/RFE/hy-AM/img/logo.png https://www.azatutyun.am/z/1089 hy Բոլոր իրավունքները պաշտպանված են 2014 - «Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայան 60 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:39:28 +0400 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Law-enforcement authorities have not brought criminal charges against any of the officials from Yerevan’s municipal administration who were caught on camera assaulting opposition members of the city council on Tuesday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33788032.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33788032.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:59:40 +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 A senior Russian official claimed on Wednesday that the United States and the European Union will only destabilize the South Caucasus with their deepening security ties with Armenia. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787850.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787850.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:40:34 +0400 in English The Armenian military has drafted more than a dozen priests amid reports that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government is using callups of reservists to punish Russia-based Armenians suspected of having voted against his party in the June 7 parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787277.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787277.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:33:58 +0400 in English European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly planning to visit Armenia on July 1 to reaffirm support for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his pro-Western foreign policy increasingly resented by Russia. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787209.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787209.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:37:37 +0400 in English Investigators searched opposition leader Ishkhan Saghatelian’s Yerevan apartment and car on Tuesday in a criminal investigation linked by him to Armenia’s disputed parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787156.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33787156.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:19:06 +0400 in English Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledges to “dispossess” his main political foes, the Armenian government revoked on Monday the operating license of a company managing the country’s largest casino owned by businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33786454.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33786454.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:21:19 +0400 in English Billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia alliance is negotiating with at least two other major opposition groups over his proposal to jointly challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after the disputed parliamentary elections held on June 7. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33786436.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33786436.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:00:09 +0400 in English Armenia’s leadership keeps ignoring Russia’s serious concerns about its drift towards the European Union, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33786336.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33786336.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:38:20 +0400 in English An Armenian opposition politician was briefly detained and charged with spreading antigovernment “hate speech” on Friday less than one year after his release from prison. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784748.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784748.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:13:50 +0400 in English Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s pledges to “dispossess” his main political foes, the Armenian authorities have launched tax audits of companies owned by opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian, his spokeswoman said on Friday. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784722.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784722.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:57:06 +0400 in English Six opposition groups and one pro-government party petitioned Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Friday to invalidate the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections that gave victory to the ruling Civil Contract party. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784658.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784658.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:18:40 +0400 in English Armenia has urged the European Union to speed up its aid measures designed to help the country mitigate potentially severe consequences of a Russian embargo on key Armenian imports, according to diplomatic sources in Brussels. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784572.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33784572.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:29:26 +0400 in English The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Azerbaijan on Thursday to compensate the family of an Armenian army officer who was captured and decapitated by Azerbaijani troops during fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2016. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783983.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783983.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:48:08 +0400 in English Less than two weeks after the Armenian parliamentary elections, Azerbaijan’s leadership renewed on Thursday its demands for Armenia to allow a mass influx of Azerbaijanis who had lived there in Soviet times. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783930.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783930.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:23:55 +0400 in English Billionaire Samvel Karapetian has said that his Strong Armenia bloc will join forces with other opposition groups to continue challenging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after the disputed parliamentary elections held on June 7. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783870.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783870.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:38:03 +0400 in English The ruling Civil Contract party has drafted legislation that would effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenian nationals living abroad and Russia in particular. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783184.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783184.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:54:21 +0400 in English Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged on Wednesday to “crush” the leaders of Armenia’s three main opposition groups that won at least 37 percent of the vote in the June 7 parliamentary elections. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783130.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783130.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:02:10 +0400 in English French and Greek soldiers joined an annual U.S.-Armenian military exercise that began in Armenia on Wednesday amid the South Caucasus country’s heightened tensions with Russia. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783039.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33783039.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:17:48 +0400 in English Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s repeated pledges to have the leaders of Armenia’s main opposition groups imprisoned, prosecutors have asked the Central Election Commission (CEC) for permission to bring more criminal charges against former President Robert Kocharian. https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33782424.html https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33782424.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:09:20 +0400 in English