Last year’s exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population was the result of Azerbaijan’s systematic “policy of ethnic cleansing,” U.S.-based watchdog Freedom House and six other human rights groups said in an extensive report released on Monday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday attended the fifth summit of the European Political Community that brought together dozens of leaders in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Oscar-winning U.S. actor Kevin Spacey received a warm welcome from scores of movie fans in Yerevan on Tuesday as he visited Armenia to take part in an annual film festival held there.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday voiced misgivings about the idea of a referendum on Armenia’s membership of the European Union advocated by his political allies.
The head of the European Union’s monitoring mission on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan, Markus Ritter, on Friday backed Yerevan’s proposal to jointly investigate with Baku ceasefire violations reported from there.
Just days after accusing Azerbaijan of planning military aggression against it, Armenia has proposed joint investigations of ceasefire violations on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border alleged by either side.
Citing a wiretapped phone conversation mistranslated and broadcast by state television, Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested a Nagorno-Karabakh man on charges of paying fellow refugees to attend ongoing antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian took his campaign for regime change in Armenia to the Gegharkunik province on Wednesday in advance of another major rally in Yerevan which he hopes will step up pressure on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Demonstrators led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian scuffled with riot police in Yerevan on Friday as they continued to campaign for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Protesters led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian poured into Yerevan’s central Republic Square on Thursday to try to surround the seat of Armenia’s government during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In a move bound to add to mounting tensions with Moscow, the Armenian government has suspended the broadcast of Russia’s leading state TV channel in Armenia after it aired strong criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Public hearings in the case of Armenia vs. Azerbaijan opened at the United Nations International Court of Justice on April 15, with judges hearing objections from the Azerbaijani side on the first day of the proceedings scheduled to last through Friday.
The European Union wants to see “genuine, substantial negotiations” between Armenia and Azerbaijan leading to a peace treaty, agreements on border delimitation and opening of transport links, the 27-nation bloc’s diplomat said.
Armenian investigators reportedly raided the homes of supporters of a radical opposition group on Monday one day after three men linked to it detonated a hand grenade at the entrance to a police station in Yerevan.
A media ethics watchdog has defended the executive director of Armenian Public Radio who was censured by a state body last month for criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s statements on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Thousands of Russians who moved to Armenia after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine appear to have voted against President Vladimir Putin in a tightly controlled presidential election that gave him a fifth term in office.
Armenia has sent a protest note to Russia over fresh harsh criticism of its government aired by Russian state television.
A senior member of Germany’s parliament on Tuesday argued against imposing sanctions on Azerbaijan over its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and what the European Union has described as territorial claims to Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will bow to pressure from Azerbaijan and make more concessions to Baku, former President Serzh Sarkisian claimed on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has pointedly declined to guarantee that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be arrested if he visits Armenia after the country’s recent accession to the International Criminal Court.
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