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.
A company controlled by Khachatur Sukiasian, a wealthy businessman close to the Armenian government, said one Friday that it is one of the two wholesale buyers of Azerbaijani gasoline delivered to Armenia for the first time in decades.
Azerbaijan sent a trainload of gasoline to Armenia via Georgia on Thursday four months after Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements reached in Washington.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities raided Nagorno-Karabakh’s permanent representation in Yerevan on Thursday the day after its exiled leaders vowed to keep fighting for the Karabakh Armenians’ right to return to their homeland recaptured by Azerbaijan in 2023.
The Armenian Apostolic Church strongly condemned the Armenian authorities on Friday for arresting and bringing “baseless charges” against another of its bishops amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing drive to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Two jailed archbishops have strongly condemned a dozen of their colleagues who have effectively joined in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II.
Arman Tatoyan, Armenia’s former human rights ombudsman leading a newly formed opposition group, claimed on Wednesday that former Presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian will help Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian retain power if they run in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Armenia remains in no rush to formally leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) despite continuing to boycott summits of the leaders of ex-Soviet states making up the Russian-led military alliance, a senior Armenian official said on Wednesday.
Human rights activists joined on Friday opposition leaders and lawyers in condemning Armenian authorities for extending the five-month arrest of the only female defendant in the ongoing trial of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his 17 supporters.
The wife of Viken Euljekian, one of the 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, on Tuesday renewed her appeals for his release, saying that he is not receiving adequate medical care despite his worsened health.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that construction of the so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) in the country’s strategic southern Syunik region is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026.
A senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s ruling Civil Contract party has rejected Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov’s recent claims that Armenia withdrew from peace negotiations and provoked the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Former Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation, authorities confirmed on Friday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested the brother and nephew of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II on suspicion of committing a crime amid mounting tensions between the government and the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has expressed confidence that his Civil Contract party will win Armenia’s next general elections expected in June 2026.
The United States and Armenia are engaged in detailed talks on practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan which would pass through a key Armenian region, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorians said on Monday.
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