The two opposition groups represented in Yerevan’s municipal council accused the Armenian authorities on Friday of trying to stifle dissent after the ruling Civil Contract party moved to oust five of their council members.
Health Minister Anahit Avanesian reaffirmed on Friday government plans to start gradually introducing in July this year a system of mandatory health insurance in Armenia.
Russia is not torpedoing U.S. efforts to broker an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace accord despite being strongly opposed to them, the U.S. State Department insisted on Thursday.
Pro-government lawmakers rejected on Monday an opposition-backed ballot initiative to legally ban Armenia’s leadership from recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.
Former President Robert Kocharian’s younger son arrested during recent anti-government protests in Yerevan was released from custody on Monday after taking up a vacant parliament seat reserved for the main opposition Hayastan alliance.
The Armenian government has no plans to pay the pensions and other benefits received by residents of Nagorno-Karabakh until their exodus to Armenia, Finance Minister Vahe Hovannisian said on Tuesday.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will not meet in Brussels before the end of this month for fresh talks that were due to be hosted by the European Union’s top official, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
Yerevan’s new Mayor Tigran Avinian sparked strong opposition criticism on Thursday after it emerged that a lavish inauguration ceremony organized by him last week cost taxpayers over 87 million drams ($220,000).
Former President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday brushed aside government claims that Armenia became a democratic country after he was forced to resign during the 2018 “velvet revolution.”
A first group of 149 people was evacuated from Israel to Armenia on Monday on a special flight organized by the Armenian government.
An Armenian government official on Thursday urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to help reverse what Yerevan regards as “ethnic cleansing” in Nagorno-Karabakh resulting from last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
Former Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian has questioned the legitimacy of Armenia’s leadership, pointing to the results of last month’s municipal elections in which he finished second.
Nearly 100 people who fled Nagorno-Karabakh after last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive continued to live in a school gym in Armenia on Monday, highlighting the Armenian government’s failure to accommodate all refugees lacking adequate housing.
A senior European Union official visited Armenia on Friday to discuss details of the EU’s humanitarian assistance to the more than 100,000 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who have fled to the country since last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
Police in Yerevan arrested on Friday morning at least 84 more people participating in protests demanding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian resign because of his failure to defend Nagorno-Karabakh against Azerbaijani attacks.
A U.S.-Armenian joint venture building a metallurgical plant on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan may have decided to relocate the facility repeatedly targeted by gunfire from nearby Azerbaijani army positions.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract is facing more allegations of electoral foul play after scores of schoolteachers and other public sector employees were spotted attending its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian’s campaign rallies in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian hailed on Thursday a continuing sharp increase in Armenia’s trade with Russia which results in large measure from Western economic sanctions against Moscow.
Campaigning officially began on Wednesday for municipal elections in Yerevan effectively boycotted by Armenia’s main opposition groups.
De facto ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh believe that agreeing to the opening of an “alternative road” from Azerbaijan would legitimize the current blockade of the Lachin Corridor and cut the region from Armenia.
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