Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Wednesday to have made Armenia far more independent and sovereign during his seven-year rule, drawing scorn from his political opponents.
Hungary has effectively admitted blocking the European Union from allocating last month an additional 20 million euros ($22 million) in “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia through its European Peace Facility (EPF).
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov on Wednesday expressed concern about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and, in particular, what he called lingering tensions over Armenia’s strategic Syunik province.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has arrested a man who it believes stole last week $590,000 in cash kept in another law-enforcement agency’s offices in Yerevan.
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.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian sought on Tuesday to rationalize Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s continuing description of much of Armenia’s territory as “Western Azerbaijan,” linking it to activities of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership in Armenia.
Russia appeared to blame Armenia on Tuesday for continuing delays in the opening of a Russian consulate in a key Armenian region, Syunik.
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 Serzh Sarkisian will go on trial for a third time on fresh corruption charges revealed by law-enforcement authorities and rejected by his lawyer and political allies as politically motivated at the weekend.
France and Armenia are planning to cement their close ties with a document on “strategic partnership,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said during a visit to Yerevan on Monday.
The wife of Viken Euljekian, one of at least 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, said on Friday that she fears for his life following a hunger strike reported by him recently.
A senior official from Armenia’s Investigative Committee has been arrested following an extraordinary theft of $590,000 in cash kept in one of the law-enforcement agency’s buildings in Yerevan.
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