A joint investigation involving researchers from several Internet watchdogs and rights groups has revealed that at least a dozen public figures in Armenia, including two RFE/RL journalists, were targeted with Pegasus spyware during and after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sought to justify on Monday the arrest of a grief-stricken woman accused of attempting to “kidnap” his son which has sparked street protests and widespread condemnation in Armenia.
The next municipal elections in Yerevan will take place on September 17, according to Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC).
An Armenian law-enforcement agency on Wednesday claimed to have seized about one ton of cocaine one day after an even bigger consignment of the drug, allegedly bound for Armenia, was found in Italy.
Not only Azerbaijan but also Armenia should withdraw troops from contested areas along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a senior EU diplomat said on Monday.
A pro-government lawmaker hit out at the Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday after its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, lamented “deepening intolerance” in Armenia and defended his earlier calls for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has joined the Armenian opposition in accusing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of grossly misrepresenting international peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh made before the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
The parents of Armenian soldiers found dead at their military barracks in January blocked a major highway late on Tuesday as they continued to accuse authorities of trying to cover up the shock deaths.
Armenia’s parliament on Wednesday allowed prosecutors to bring criminal charges against an opposition lawmaker who punched a pro-government colleague in disputed circumstances.
The Armenian parliament has voted to appoint a candidate of the ruling Civil Contract party, who has served as a deputy prosecutor-general until now, as Armenia’s new human rights defender.
At least three Azerbaijani and four Armenian soldiers were killed on Tuesday in fresh fighting that broke out on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Russia and Armenia will remain close allies despite unprecedented friction between, the Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Sergei Kopyrkin, said on Monday.
The Armenian military confirmed on Friday that it will not take part in a U.S.-led military exercise in Europe that will start later this month.
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged the European Union to pressure Azerbaijan to end its “inhuman” blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh during a visit to Armenia on Tuesday.
Police in Armenia briefly detained on Tuesday a Russian man prosecuted in Russia for painting anti-war graffiti.
The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday ordered Azerbaijan to restore “unimpeded” traffic through the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
The Armenian police continue to ill-treat criminal suspects to extract confessions or other testimony from them despite police reforms declared by the government, a civic activist claimed on Tuesday.
Two Armenian lawyers on Friday claimed to have been beaten up by police officers while representing a juvenile criminal suspect.
Schools and colleges in Nagorno-Karabakh were shut down on Thursday one day after Azerbaijan again blocked Armenia’s natural gas supplies to the region cut off from the outside world for more than a month.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Friday expressed solidarity for Nagorno-Karabakh and urged its embattled residents to “remain firm” in the face of the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the region’s land link with Armenia.
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