The leadership of Armenia’s parliament on Thursday defended huge yearend bonuses that have been paid to its members and staffers, costing taxpayers at least 545 million drams ($1.4 million).
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.
One of a handful of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who did not flee the region during Azerbaijan’s September 2023 military offensive has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for allegedly plotting a “terrorist” attack on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II, Armenia’s government formally decided on Thursday to halt broadcasts of a TV channel controlled by the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Two journalists working for an independent Armenian newspaper have been stripped of their parliamentary accreditation after trying to interview a senior pro-government lawmaker about a property deal that has raised more questions about government corruption in Armenia.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency on Wednesday shed light on corruption charges brought by it against Diana Gasparian, the former pro-government mayor of the town of Vagharshapat.
A longtime ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian heading Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) insisted on Wednesday that he will do his best to ensure the proper conduct of next year’s parliamentary elections.
One week after reports emerged about his impending sacking by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, the governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province said on Tuesday that he still does not know whether he will retain his post.
The executive director of the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theater has claimed that his deputy and cousin Vrezh Durgarian did not try last week to break into Armenia’s main cathedral together with other supporters of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
One of the Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan has reportedly been hospitalized after what authorities in Baku described on Tuesday as a sharp deterioration of his health.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has forced a local electronics chain to temporarily close its shops in Yerevan, acting on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s order denounced by critics as illegal and arbitrary.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday his government’s plans to open a U.S.-run transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
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