Several pro-Western political and civic groups announced on Monday that they will start collecting next month signatures in support of their demands for a referendum on Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
Several families in a small village in northwestern Armenia have been increasingly worried about the fate of their relatives in Kursk since Moscow’s war against Ukraine spilled over into this Russian region earlier this month.
Vazgen Mkhitarian, a native of the village of Voskehat in Armenia’s Shirak province, says he plans to return to Kursk despite the fighting that erupted in this Russian region last week.
An outspoken priest leading Armenia’s latest protest movement vowed renewed efforts to remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from power as he continued to tour Armenia’s regions this month.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s main political factions have rejected as inadequate the Armenian government’s new plan to help Karabakh refugees obtain permanent housing in Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party dropped its objections to the 2024 municipal budget of Gyumri on Tuesday more than one month after pulling out of a power-sharing agreement with the city’s mayor.
Armenia’s ambassador to Iraq was sacked on Friday three weeks after the ruling Civil Contract party pulled out of a power-sharing agreement in Gyumri with a local political group unofficially led by his father.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Friday accused the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of “criminal inaction” and did not rule out the possibility of Armenia’s exit from the Russian-led military alliance.
The mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri made clear on Wednesday that he will not resign following the collapse of his bloc’s coalition arrangement with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party gave no indications on Monday that it will try to oust the mayor of Gyumri through a no-confidnce vote after pulling out of a power-sharing agreement with his political force.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday pulled out of a power-sharing agreement with a political group that won most votes in municipal elections held in Gyumri two years ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian touted his government’s handling of the massive influx of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday even as at least 1,700 of them continued to live in kindergartens, schools and other buildings hastily converted into shelters.
At least 11 people were killed and nine others injured in an overnight collision of a passenger minibus and a truck in Armenia.
Wholesale prices of wheat mostly imported to Armenia from Russia have shrunk by half over the past year, taking their toll on Armenian grain farmers.
An opposition activist based in Gyumri on Monday claimed to have been assaulted by a local police officer.
A local government official affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party is prosecuted for assaulting a fellow villager but is not yet facing charges stemming from his recent threats to “shoot” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s detractors.
A member of Gyumri’s municipal council affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party was arrested on Thursday on charges of involvement in the kidnapping, torture and shooting of a man.
Armenia’ national customs service is struggling to cope with rapidly growing imports of cars that appear to be mostly re-exported to Russia as a result of Western sanctions against Moscow.
A member of Gyumri’s municipal council affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party was arrested over the weekend on charges of mugging a Russian couple.
Arkadi has worked in Russia on a seasonal basis for the last 15 years and is planning to go there again this spring. He earned in 2022 as much as he had in previous years despite the crippling Western sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.
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