Armenians around the world should buy more food and beverages produced in Armenia to end the country’s heavy dependence on their exports to Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s chief of staff said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Armenian trucks were stuck at the main Russian-Georgian border crossing on Monday after Russia reportedly tightened import and export controls on them amid its unprecedented tensions with Armenia.
Law-enforcement authorities arrested on Tuesday yet another vocal critic of the Armenian government on charges of calling for politically motivated violence on social media.
The government formally decided on Thursday to allocate 30 billion drams ($75 million) for the housing needs of tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians who have taken refuge in Armenia since last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
Three weeks after its worse-than-expected performance in municipal elections, the ruling Civil Contract party installed on Tuesday one of its senior members as mayor of Yerevan with the decisive help of a controversial video blogger wanted by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
Campaigning for municipal elections in Yerevan officially ended on Friday with more reports of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party forcing public sector workers to attend its mayoral candidate’s meetings.
The ruling Civil Contract party has denied growing reports that it is forcing public sector employees in Yerevan to attend election campaign rallies of its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian.
Armenia’s government has barred yet another Diaspora-based activist of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) from entering the country, again drawing strong condemnation from the opposition party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party moved on Monday to oust the last remaining opposition lawmaker heading a standing committee of the Armenian parliament.
Justice Minister Grigor Minasian on Friday defended his decision to initiate the dismissal of a prominent judge who accused Armenia’s government and state judicial watchdog of seeking to control courts.
Scores of Armenians eligible for free healthcare financed by the state complain that hospitals across the country have stopped providing such services due to an alleged lack of government funding.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have again banned restaurants from hosting large dinner parties and post-funeral gatherings amid worsening shortages of food caused by the recent tightening of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor.
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh struggled with worsening shortages of food and medicine on Monday four days after Azerbaijan completely blocked relief supplies to the Armenian-populated region.
The mother of an Armenian soldier killed during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh has been detained on suspicion of threatening and attempting to “kidnap” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s son.
The post of Yerevan’s mayor will remain formally vacant until the next municipal elections slated for this fall, Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party announced on Tuesday.
Two current and former senior officials from Yerevan’s municipal administration were set free on Wednesday one day after being arrested on apparently corruption charges.
Two more senior local government officials in Yerevan were arrested on Tuesday four days after the resignation of Mayor Hrachya Sargsian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again claimed to have eliminated “systemic” corruption in Armenia amid continuing allegations about illicit enrichment of members of his government and political team.
A former deputy health minister currently serving as vice-mayor of Yerevan was arrested over the weekend on charges stemming from what an Armenian law-enforcement agency called misuse of government funds provided for the fight against COVID-19.
The chief of a Western-funded major division of the Armenian police has been sacked following an extraordinary traffic incident at Yerevan’s main square which sparked accusations of incompetence directed at its officers.
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