Riot police clashed with protesters and made more than 100 arrests on Monday as daily anti-government demonstrations organized by Armenia’s main opposition groups entered their fifth week.
Opposition leaders and their supporters blocked the Armenian Foreign Ministry building in Yerevan on Tuesday during a fourth week of daily protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
An Armenian judge was set free over the weekend three months after being arrested on what he sees as politically motivated charges.
Armenian security forces made at least 244 arrests on Monday as they clashed with protesters blocking streets in Yerevan as part of an opposition campaign to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has set free a police officer whose car hit and killed a young woman while escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade in Yerevan earlier this week.
Representatives of the ruling Civil Contract party on Thursday denounced opposition efforts to bring down Armenia’s government through street protests and said they will end in failure.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties have pledged to stage coordinated street protests in an attempt to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and thus prevent what they see as unacceptable concessions to Azerbaijan planned by him.
In what Armenia’s leading media groups see as a new restriction on press freedom, pro-government lawmakers have drafted legislation that would empower state bodies to withdraw the accreditation of journalists.
At least 23 ethnic Armenian citizens or residents of Ukraine have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion, according to leaders of the country’s Armenian community.
An Armenian court has extended by one month the pre-trial arrest of a judge prosecuted on what he sees as politically motivated charges.
Law-enforcement officers have raided the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations as part of an apparent investigation into corruption.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party has won a repeat election held in Armenia’s southern Ararat province amid accusations of foul play voiced by opposition figures, election observers and some media outlets.
A post on the official Twitter account of Ukraine’s parliament regarding Nagorno-Karabakh “does not reflect the position of official Kyiv,” Ukrainian Chargé d’Affaires to Armenia Denis Autonomov said on Friday.
Official Yerevan sees no expediency in organizing charter flights for citizens of Armenia fleeing the ongoing war in Ukraine to other countries at the moment.
Armenians smoking in cafes and restaurants will risk paying a hefty fine after a new law banning smoking in all indoor and outdoor public places has been enforced in their country.
Azerbaijani troops are continuing to fire mortars towards villages in Nagorno-Karabakh and impede natural gas supplies to the territory cut off earlier this week, officials in Stepanakert said on Friday.
Two more Armenian prisoners of war held by Azerbaijan received long prison sentences at the weekend in trials strongly condemned by Armenia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted air travel between the two countries and Armenia.
Iranian diplomats and clerics have criticized Azerbaijani lawmakers for claiming that a 18th century Shia mosque in Yerevan managed by Iran is an Azerbaijani monument.
Armenian prosecutors on Tuesday pledged to thwart Azerbaijan’s stated attempts to arrest former Presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian in a third country.
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