Major anti-government protests continued in Armenia for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with opposition leaders vowing that there will be no letup in their efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenian press freedom groups have condemned the head of a security agency that provides bodyguards to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other senior officials for reportedly assaulting two journalists during an opposition demonstration in Yerevan.
The Constitutional Court has refused to strike down a controversial law that made it a crime to insult Armenian officials and public figures.
An Armenian book publisher known for his conciliatory views on Azerbaijan and Turkey was assaulted late on Wednesday by opposition supporters holding an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan.
Riot police made at least 18 arrests on Wednesday as they scuffled with opposition activists holding small-scale protests across Yerevan to try to drum up popular support for an opposition bid to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Thursday criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and warned him against helping Azerbaijan regain control over the Armenian-populated territory.
Armenian opposition parliamentarians were barred from entering Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday to continue their campaign against far-reaching Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s two main opposition groups said on Tuesday that their lawmakers will not attend this week’s parliament sittings and will visit Nagorno-Karabakh instead as part of their campaign to prevent far-reaching Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia has not only stopped being the guarantor of Nagorno-Karabakh’s security but is also not providing the Armenian-populated territory with adequate diplomatic support, a senior official in Stepanakert complained on Monday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership and population will never agree to live under Azerbaijani rule, a senior official in Stepanakert reiterated on Thursday.
The Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Tuesday that it will deploy more soldiers in and around a local village that was occupied by Azerbaijani forces last week.
Azerbaijani forces have withdrawn from a village in Nagorno-Karabakh’s east but continue to occupy territory outside it seized by them last week, military authorities in Stepanakert said on Monday.
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have accused Azerbaijan of violating the line of contact in the east of the region by the advancement of its troops denied by Baku.
The Armenian government should implement a full-scale anti-crisis program to prevent irreversible economic losses, an opposition lawmaker has said.
Thousands of Russians, many of them tech professionals, have migrated to Armenia since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing tightening of Western sanctions against Moscow.
Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian claimed on Tuesday that Russian tech companies are moving operations to Armenia to evade crippling Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff, Lieutenant-General Artak Davtian, and four other generals were dismissed on Thursday through presidential decrees initiated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s two main opposition forces have described Russia’s and Azerbaijan’s pledges to act like regional allies as a serious geopolitical setback for Yerevan and blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration for it.
Azerbaijan again rejected on Thursday Armenia’s conditions for demarcating the long border between the two states where deadly skirmishes break out on a regular basis.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has rejected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing criticism of peace proposals made by the United States, Russia and France during his rule, insisting that they did not call for Azerbaijani control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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