An outspoken archbishop was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday three months after being arrested amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
A political ally of Nikol Pashinian confirmed on Friday that the Armenian prime minister intends to depose the opposition mayor of Gyumri who took office in April following the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a local election.
U.S. customs and immigration officials have arrived in Armenia for what the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan described on Friday as the first step to towards opening a U.S.-administered transit route for Azerbaijan through a key Armenian region.
The European Union’s two top officials hailed recent U.S.-brokered agreements as a “crucial step” towards a resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict when they met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Copenhagen on Thursday.
A senior pro-government lawmaker continued to demand on Thursday that speaker Alen Simonian allow him to present the Armenian parliament with the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of a European summit in Denmark on Thursday just days after accusing him of effectively making territorial claims against Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged on Wednesday to “throw out” the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri who took office in April following the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a local election.
Armenia’s top appeals court has upheld a prison sentence given to a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army over one of its military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Azerbaijan to submit by November 4 fresh information about the detention and health conditions of 23 Armenian prisoners held by it, a Yerevan-based lawyer representing them said on Wednesday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has unexpectedly blocked another senior pro-government lawmaker from releasing this week the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia is facing a shortage of military personnel, Deputy Defense Minister Arman Sargsian said on Tuesday less than a month after his ministry drafted legislation which could downsize the country’s army.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again made clear on Tuesday that his government will not press Azerbaijan to enable Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive to return to its homeland.
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