Around 200 more Armenians stranded in the United Arab Emirates due to Iran’s war with the United States and Israel have returned to Yerevan in recent days, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan spoke with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov by phone late on Thursday hours after Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave was hit by what Baku described as drones launched from neighboring Iran.
Iran reopened its border with Armenia on Thursday one day after partly closing it amid continuing U.S. and Israeli air strikes against the Islamic Republic.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Thursday that he will tread carefully in his efforts to end Russia’s management of Armenia’s railway network.
An appeals court on Thursday released from custody one of the three archbishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church arrested last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Thursday that his government has not been careless in the face of neighboring Iran’s escalating war with the United States and Israel and its potential impact on Armenia’s national security.
Azerbaijan has advanced deeper into Armenia’s territory from some of the border areas seized by it after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian opposition leader claimed on Wednesday.
Reportedly citing technical problems, Iran closed its border with Armenia to individual travelers early on Wednesday for the second time since the start of large-scale U.S. and Israeli air strikes against the Islamic Republic.
Russia on Wednesday criticized the European Union’s plans to deploy a “hybrid rapid response team” ahead of Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections while offering to send a similar mission to the country.
A video blogger and activist highly critical of Yerevan’s municipal authorities claimed on Tuesday that the Armenian military has illegally called him up for short service in a bid to “silence” him ahead of the June 7 parliamentary elections.
A coalition of Western press freedom groups has for the first time included Armenia on its list of countries in wider Europe jailing journalists or other media figures.
The Armenian government has not yet made a final decision to end Russia’s management of Armenia’s railway network, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday.
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