The Armenian Foreign Ministry on Thursday declined to give any reason for continuing delays in the planned opening of a Russian consulate in Armenia’s strategic Syunik province.
The Armenian parliament debated on Tuesday a government proposal to increase maximum prison sentences for men evading compulsory military service or call-ups of reservists.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday continued to call on Azerbaijan to drop its preconditions for signing a peace treaty with Armenia finalized by the two sides in March.
Former President Robert Kocharian has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of corruption and misrule and insisted that he can successfully deal with Armenia’s grave security challenges if he returns to power.
Another opposition lawmaker heard on Thursday personal insults from a senior pro-government colleague after strongly criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during a session of Armenia’s parliament.
Investigators questioned on Monday Zhirayr Sefilian, the leader of a pro-Western political group challenging the Armenian government, in connection with a 1999 deadly attack on the country’s parliament.
Former President Robert Kocharian’s Hayastan alliance has essentially dismissed a proposal to try to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian through a vote of no confidence which is backed by the second opposition group represented in Armenia’s parliament.
Former President Robert Kocharian said that while Armenian opposition groups can work together in trying to remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from power they should not be expected to form a single electoral alliance.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian ruled out on Thursday the possibility of an Azerbaijani military attack on Armenia, contradicting statements made by his foreign minister.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leaders and said Armenia does not raise the Karabakh issue in peace talks with Azerbaijan because there are no ethnic Armenians left in the region.
A senior Turkish diplomat reportedly expressed confidence on Friday that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will change Armenia’s constitution to normalize relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Armenia’s government has drawn strong condemnation from the opposition after saying that Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders are to blame for its decision to stop raising the Karabakh issue in peace talks with Azerbaijan.
A U.S. lawyer representing Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan has insisted that the release of his client and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan is a “top priority” for the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Dismissing repeated appeals from Yerevan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday reiterated his main preconditions for signing a peace deal with Armenia finalized last month.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian suggested on Monday that the Armenian and Azerbaijani governments ask a European legal body to determine whether Armenia’s constitution contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s leading opposition groups condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday for making more concessions to Azerbaijan to finalize a bilateral peace deal which they say will not resolve the long-running Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Armenia confirmed on Thursday that it has accepted Azerbaijan’s proposals regarding their remaining differences over a bilateral peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
U.S. immigration authorities appear to have detained a notorious Armenian blogger with political ambitions who is wanted in Armenia for alleged fraud, extortion and calls for violence.
A leader of France’s influential Armenian community critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Thursday that Armenia’s government lifted last year an entry ban imposed on him thanks to intervention from French President Emmanuel Macron.
The top leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that its affiliates in the United States are lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to help the Karabakh Armenians’ safely return to their homeland.
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