A leader of the Armenian opposition said on Thursday that it will push for a parliamentary vote of confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in addition to holding more street protests against him.
Health Minister Anahit Avanesian has asked the Armenian parliament to take disciplinary action against its opposition members who staged an angry protest in her office after she praised riot police using force against anti-government protesters.
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh again rallied outside the main government building in Yerevan on Tuesday to accuse the Armenian authorities of neglecting their grave socioeconomic problems.
The United Arab Emirates-based carrier Air Arabia and an Armenian state agency have announced plans to jointly launch a low-cost “national airline” in Armenia.
A 30-year-old official who was sacked as head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh was named on Monday to run another law-enforcement agency.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Thursday that the weekend general elections in Armenia won by his party were free and fair.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian complained on Thursday about a lack of progress in the Armenian government’s vaccination campaign against COVID-19, telling his ministers to get vaccine shots and thus set an example to skeptical citizens.
President Armen Sarkissian has refused to sign into law a government-backed bill which Armenian opposition groups regard as a threat to judicial independence.
Armenia received the first major batch of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine early on Thursday.
President Armen Sarkissian refused on Thursday to appoint a new chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff nominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Russian border guards reportedly set up an additional post on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan at the weekend after what Armenian officials described as gunshots fired by Azerbaijani forces.
Ignoring strong objections from press freedom groups, the Armenian parliament approved on Thursday a fivefold increase in maximum legal fines set for defamation.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed leadership accused Azerbaijan on Wednesday of continuing to violate a Russian-brokered ceasefire after dozens of Armenian soldiers were taken prisoner in Karabakh’s southwest.
A pro-government deputy has unexpectedly resigned from Armenia’s parliament, citing serious disagreements with Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutiunian.
More than a thousand ethnic Armenian citizens of Lebanon have immigrated to Armenia since last month’s devastating explosion at Beirut port warehouses, according to a government agency in Yerevan.
“Cosmopolitan,” a popular international magazine for young women, appears to have become the best-selling glossy publication in Armenia less than seven months after the launch of its Armenian-language edition.
