Opposition leaders accused the Armenian parliament of undermining judicial independence on Wednesday as it approved a government proposal to hire new judges who will deal only with corruption cases or pre-trial arrests of criminal suspects.
Law-enforcement authorities arrested five protesters who clashed with riot police while demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation on Thursday.
In a move sought by Yerevan, Russia’s government has provisionally lifted a coronavirus-related entry ban for Armenian nationals which has aggravated Armenia’s economic problems.
Opposition leaders denounced on Monday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s reported plans to appoint a senior but politically inexperienced lawmaker as Armenia’s new ambassador to the United States.
Two pro-government lawmakers are pressing the National Assembly to scale back a recent sharp increase in a special tax used for compensating the families of Armenian soldiers killed or seriously wounded in action.
The Armenian government did not confirm or refute on Friday reports that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will fly to Moscow on Monday for further talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The head of a state body overseeing Armenian courts rejected on Tuesday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest strong criticism of the country’s judiciary.
Armenia’s leading opposition forces have rejected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s offer to discuss with them the conduct of snap parliamentary elections.
The opposition Bright Armenia Party (LHK) has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the causes and the outcome of the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thousands of people poured into Yerevan’s main square on Tuesday as the Armenian opposition tried to intensify its campaign for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Citing an increase in the number of military casualties due to the ongoing war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia’s Ministry of Defense has proposed raising the size of monthly compulsory payments to the Army Insurance Fund.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s two largest towns again came under rocket attack on Wednesday as deadly shelling of civilian areas in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone intensified following the collapse of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s authorities have prevented food shortages, largely ensured continued electricity supplies and kept paying salaries and pensions despite large-scale hostilities around the Armenian-populated region that broke out late last month, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Thursday.
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian visited Moscow again on Monday as fierce fighting reportedly continued in Nagorno-Karabakh despite the Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire agreement reached at the weekend.
The prime ministers of Russia, Armenia and two other Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states discussed on Friday the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences for the Russian-led trade bloc at a meeting in Yerevan overshadowed by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A Yerevan court allowed investigators late on Friday to arrest Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading the opposition Prosperous Armenia (BHK), on vote buying charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Armenia’s Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutiunian dismissed growing opposition demands for his resignation and defended his policies on Wednesday.
Teachers in Armenia queued up at policlinics on Wednesday to undergo mandatory coronavirus tests ahead of the reopening of the country’s schools scheduled for September 15.
An opposition member of Yerevan’s municipal council on Monday accused Mayor Hayk Marutian of failing to deliver on his promises to completely revamp and modernize the city’s collapsing system of public transport.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of violating international humanitarian law with its treatment of an Armenian army officer who was taken prisoner late last week.
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