Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday doubled down on accusations against his political rivals of planning to undermine peace with Azerbaijan if they manage to come to power as a result of upcoming parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s parliamentary opposition has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of attempting to influence voters ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections by invoking the threat of war.
Armenia has sent humanitarian aid, primarily medicines, to Iran amid an ongoing regional war involving the neighboring country, a senior official in Yerevan said Monday.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Monday he does not consider Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s warnings about the risk of war in the event of an opposition victory in upcoming parliamentary elections to be blackmail.
Investigators in Armenia have interrogated the editor of a pro-opposition daily as part of a criminal probe into an editorial published more than a year ago in a case she believes may be linked to a pre-election crackdown on dissent.
Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharian will take part in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7 as the leader of the Hayastan Alliance and its candidate for prime minister.
In an apparent reference to Russia, Armenian authorities claimed on Tuesday that security services of a foreign state are pressuring Armenians doing business there to support opposition forces during Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
A top aide to former President Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Tuesday that his Armenian National Congress (HAK) is discussing with billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s opposition movement the possibility of joining forces for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Former President Robert Kocharian has given the clearest indication yet that he will top his Hayastan alliance’s list of candidates in Armenia’s parliamentary elections slated for June 7.
With just over three months left before parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Wednesday an impending rise in Armenia’s modest pensions which his critics portrayed as an attempt to win over elderly voters.
The top aide to Samvel Karapetian, a billionaire controversially prosecuted by Armenian authorities, declined to speculate on Tuesday about possible power-sharing deals between his newly established party and two other opposition groups.
A spokeswoman for Gagik Tsarukian on Friday added her voice to concerns that the Armenian government may bar his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) or other opposition groups from running in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
Law-enforcement officials raided businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian’s private compound outside Yerevan on Thursday amid his efforts to set up a major electoral alliance which have prompted serious concern from Armenia’s ruling party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political allies have vowed to prevent the Armenian opposition from winning the upcoming parliamentary elections, raising more opposition concerns over their proper conduct.
Samvel Karapetian’s newly established opposition party said on Thursday that the billionaire controversially prosecuted by the Armenian authorities will vie for the post of prime minister in Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections despite currently not being eligible for it.
Five former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh were sentenced to life imprisonment and two others received 20-year jail terms on Thursday at the end of their yearlong trial in Azerbaijan condemned by Armenian human rights activists as a travesty of justice.
A court in Yerevan on Tuesday extended by two months the pre-trial arrest of one of the three Armenian archbishops arrested last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
A planned U.S.-run transit corridor for Azerbaijan passing through a key Armenian region would pose a grave security threat to Armenia, former President Robert Kocharian said on Thursday.
A former nurse heading a standing committee of the Armenian parliament tendered her resignation on Wednesday two days after making a controversial statement criticized even by some fellow members of the country’s ruling party.
Three days after his latest visit to Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday renewed his calls for the Russian operator of Armenia’s railway network to quickly restore its sections leading to the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders.
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