An ongoing campaign by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife purportedly aimed at educating Armenians but dismissed by critics as a political gimmick is financed by Armenia’s government, a senior official revealed on Friday.
Samvel Shahramanian, who served until this month as Nagorno-Karabakh’s president in exile, was interrogated by an Armenian law-enforcement agency on Wednesday for the fourth time in two weeks following reports about Armenian government efforts to prevent his reelection.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday defended his political allies’ calls for the Armenian opposition to try to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian through a parliamentary vote of no confidence.
An Armenian journalist is facing criminal charges stemming from her coverage of angry protests that marred Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to the southeastern Syunik province four years ago.
Two lawmakers expelled from the ruling Civil Contract party late last year said on Friday that they will put a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his government.
A court in Yerevan sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of assaulting in November 2020 then parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan during riots sparked by Armenia’s defeat in a war with Azerbaijan.
In what local journalists see as a pre-election attempt to curb press freedom, Armenia’s Ministry of Justice has drafted legislation that would force online media to remove content deemed slanderous by authorities.
A 31-year-old son of Armen Abazian, the head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), has paid more than $600,000 to buy a luxury apartment in a deal which an Armenian investigative publication believes may have been riddled with corruption.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Tuesday criticized one of its archbishops based in Europe for praising Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s policies opposed by Catholicos Garegin II and other top clergymen.
Armenia’s constitution does not contain territorial claims to Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reiterated on Tuesday in a continuing effort to convince Baku to drop its main precondition for signing a peace treaty with Yerevan.
Activists representing refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Monday to demand that law-enforcement authorities tackle hate speech against them which they said is incited by the Armenian government.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party has still not clarified whether it will accept opposition demands for an ethics inquiry into a senior pro-government parliamentarian who insulted a journalist last month.
A high-ranking Armenian cleric has praised former President Robert Kocharian but lambasted his successor Serzh Sarkisian, drawing the ire of the latter’s political allies.
Anti-graft activists expressed on Tuesday serious concern over an apparent lack of progress in a nearly two-year criminal investigation into a now defunct state fund that was tasked with attracting foreign investment in Armenia.
A parliament deputy from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party announced his resignation on Tuesday two days after appearing drunk in public and insulting a journalist.
A visibly drunk member of Armenia’s parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract party swore at a reporter late on Sunday as he roamed streets in downtown Gyumri during a tense local election held there.
Thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Saturday to demand that Armenia’s government stop discriminating against them, champion their right to safely return to their homeland on the international stage and keep up housing allowances paid to many of them.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Thursday allowed prosecutors to bring criminal charges against two opposition lawmakers who reject them as politically motivated.
Journalists accredited in the Armenian parliament on Friday called for a senior pro-government lawmaker to be stripped of his seat for publicly insulting one of their colleagues in an incident strongly condemned by opposition figures and press freedom groups.
Prosecutor-General Anna Vardapetian has asked the Armenian parliament to allow criminal charges to be brought against two of its opposition members.
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