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.
Two months after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian publicly vowed to jail former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian, the Armenian parliament allowed prosecutors on Monday to indict him and another opposition lawmaker.
Security forces must be able to again raid the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Monday three days after its top clergy called for the immediate release of two outspoken archbishops arrested late last month.
Armenia is now more open to accepting Azerbaijani demands to open a land corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed over the weekend.
Thousands of supporters of Samvel Karapetian marched to a prison in downtown Yerevan on Friday to demand the release of the Russian-Armenian billionaire arrested two weeks ago after denouncing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev again demanded on Friday that Armenia ensure the return of Azerbaijanis who lived there until the late 1980s as he hosted the leaders of Turkey, Iran and several other Muslim states in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed confidence that the United States will be instrumental in ending conflicts in the South Caucasus when he congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump on America’s Independence Day on Friday.
The Armenian parliament approved on Thursday a government bill that will allow authorities to fine commuters boycotting a significant increase in the cost of public transport in Yerevan.
Nearly three months after committing itself to seeking Armenia’s membership in the European Union, the Armenian government announced on Thursday plans to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a China-led grouping of 10 Eurasian states.
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