An Armenian opposition politician was arrested on Friday on suspicion of trying to pay university students to participate in ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Yerevan.
The National Security Service (NSS) confirmed on Thursday that it has arrested former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan in an ongoing criminal investigation into supplies of allegedly faulty ammunition to Armenia’s armed forces.
Deputy Prime Minister Suren Papikian told Iran’s ambassador in Yerevan on Wednesday that Armenia will complete soon work on an alternative road that will allow Iranian trucks to bypass an Azerbaijani roadblock set up on the main highway connecting the two states.
A road construction company run by parliament speaker Alen Simonian’s brother has won in the last few months two government contracts worth $1.4 million, raising suspicions of a conflict of interest and even corruption.
The last remaining pro-opposition head of a major community in Armenia’s Syunik province will have his tenure cut short and face an early election due to sudden resignations of most members of the local council.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian replaced Armenia’s ministers of justice and finance on Tuesday as part of a post-election cabinet reshuffle.
A senior Armenian prosecutor insisted on Monday that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian did not intimidate his political opponents or promise a violent crackdown on them during the recent election campaign.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court began on Friday public hearings on opposition demands to overturn official results of last month’s parliamentary elections which gave victory to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party.
The leader of the Bright Armenia Party (LHK), one of the two opposition groups represented in the outgoing Armenian parliament, on Thursday blamed former President Robert Kocharian for its failure to win any seats in the new National Assembly.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday admitted that Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to signing a Russian-brokered agreement on the demarcation of their border but denied a prominent critic’s claims that it will be heavily tilted in favor of Baku.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended his track record on Monday, saying that his administration has achieved the key aim of the “velvet revolution” that brought him to power three years ago.
Former President Robert Kocharian has said that he will team up with two or three Armenian opposition parties to participate in snap parliamentary elections expected in June.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sees no contradictions between his comments about why Armenia did not purchase missiles for Russian fighter jets to be able to use them in its recent war with Azerbaijan and his prewar post on social media about the multirole aircraft “successfully testing missiles.”
Armenia on Tuesday again accused Azerbaijan of “artificially” delaying the release of Armenian soldiers and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity more than three months after a Russian-brokered ceasefire stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A major opposition party demanded on Friday explanations from the Armenian government over allegations that a controversial delimitation of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was the result of its secret agreement with Baku reached following the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan regained control of another distict adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after Armenian forces withdrew from it in line with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war on November 10.
The National Assembly rejected on Thursday an opposition proposal to lift martial law which was declared in Armenia following the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh war on September 27.
Armenian officials denied Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian would have prevented significant Armenian territorial losses in Nagorno-Karabakh had he accepted Azerbaijan’s terms of a ceasefire set three weeks before the end of the war.
About two dozen opposition political parties have announced their plans to hold a rally in Yerevan one day after demanding that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian resign.
Nagorno-Karabakh towns again came under rocket fire on Thursday as heavy fighting continued in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone for a twelfth day.
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