Ignoring a court ruling handed down last week, Yerevan’s municipal council prolonged on Tuesday a sharp increase in car parking fees in the Armenian capital which took effect in January this year.
Armenia’s three former presidents on Monday again accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of lying to try to absolve himself of blame for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh following his renewed claims about past peace proposals made by the United States, Russia and France.
Armenia has not formally recognized Kosovo as an independent state despite agreeing to accept its passports, the Armenian Foreign Ministry clarified on Monday.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has refused to investigate the disclosure by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of personal communication of a parliament deputy who has been resisting government pressure to resign from the National Assembly.
Amid an uproar from his political opponents and media, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian said on Monday that he will pay the municipal administration about $20,000 to cover the exorbitant cost of his recent flight to the United States.
Deputy prime ministers of Russia and Armenia hailed on Friday a continuing rapid growth of Russian-Armenian trade contrasting with heightened tensions between the two longtime allies.
The Armenian government has indicated plans to introduce drug tests in the country’s schools in response to a sharp rise in drug trafficking and abuse recorded during its nearly seven-year tenure.
The administration of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden will keep trying to help Armenia and Azerbaijan reach a peace deal during its last remaining weeks in office, according to the U.S. State Department.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian has branded Armenian media outlets as a “garbage dump” after one of them effectively accused him and his family of illicit enrichment.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday dismissed Azerbaijan’s continuing demands for Armenia to change its constitution and stop buying weapons and accused Baku of harboring territorial claims against his country.
Five days after reopening its embassy in Damascus, Armenia resumed on Thursday the work of its consulate in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo evacuated late last month during a rebel offensive that overthrew Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
The governor of Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province, Sergei Movsisian, has gone on vacation following the arrest of his close aide charged with illegal drug possession.
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