Armenia’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) agreed on Tuesday to a government demand to discipline a judge who recused himself from the trial of an archbishop arrested late last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Armenia’s economy would not be hit very hard by a sharp rise in the price of Russian natural gas threatened by Moscow, two senior government officials in Yerevan insisted on Monday.
Azerbaijan’s top Shia Muslim cleric closely linked to the government on Monday added his voice to Baku’s demands for Armenia to allow a mass influx of Azerbaijanis who had lived there in Soviet times.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday repeated his threats to generate “public pressure” on Armenia’s two main opposition groups if they continue to reject his draft of a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
Law-enforcement authorities have dropped criminal charges against a Russia-based Armenian national who voiced fears of post-election unrest in Armenia when he arrived in Yerevan to vote in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
Despite assurances made by the Armenian government, Iran remains concerned about its plans to open a U.S.-run transit corridor for Azerbaijan along the Armenian-Iranian border, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador in Yerevan said on Friday.
Armenia’s two main opposition groups continued to reject on Friday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s draft of a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan, responding to his threats to bar them from possible snap parliamentary elections.
The Armenian government has initiated disciplinary proceedings against a judge who recently recused himself from the controversial trial of Catholicos Garegin II.
A Yerevan court extended on Thursday by two months the arrest of Gagik Khachatrian, a seriously ill former finance minister and tax chief who has long been standing trial on corruption charges denied by him.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday threatened to generate “strong public pressure” on Armenia’s two main opposition groups and bar them from possible snap parliamentary elections if they continue to reject his draft of a new Armenia constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised lawmakers from his Civil Contract party and mocked their opposition colleagues after they brawled on the Armenian parliament floor on Thursday.
Russia rejected on Wednesday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that it is seeking to topple him with plans to freeze Armenia out of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
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