A pro-Armenian member of the U.S. House of Representatives expressed serious concern on Thursday over last month’s arrests in Armenia of two archbishops and a billionaire businessman critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Seven more members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) were arrested on Thursday on charges or suspicion of “terrorism” dismissed by the opposition party as politically motivated.
The Armenian government is ready, in principle, to allow a foreign entity to handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Abi Dhabi on Thursday for fresh talks on ending the long-running conflict between their countries.
Armenia’s main security service illegally wiretapped the phones of many of the people who rallied in Yerevan last week in support of jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian, a defense lawyer said on Wednesday.
Russia deplored on Wednesday the Armenian government’s travel bans on Russian public figures critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after two more such persons were barred from entering Armenia amid renewed tensions between the two countries.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian spoke with his Iranian counterpart Aziz Nasirzadeh by phone on Wednesday for the first time since Iran’s 12-day war with Israel.
Armenia and Azerbaijan could strike a peace deal “pretty soon,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday ahead of fresh talks between the leaders of the two South Caucasus states.
Pro-government members of Armenia’s parliament brawled with their opposition colleagues on Tuesday before allowing prosecutors to arrest one of them on coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
A worldwide coalition of churches on Tuesday expressed “deep concern” at the Armenian government’s ongoing campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church that has led to the arrests of two archbishops.
Law-enforcement authorities raided more companies belonging to Samvel Karapetian and arrested at least five of their executives on Tuesday four days after the jailed billionaire vowed to fight for regime change in Armenia.
Representatives of Armenia’s leading opposition forces on Monday welcomed jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s apparent plans to set up his own political group that will also challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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