Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted air travel between the two countries and Armenia.
Iranian diplomats and clerics have criticized Azerbaijani lawmakers for claiming that a 18th century Shia mosque in Yerevan managed by Iran is an Azerbaijani monument.
Armenian prosecutors on Tuesday pledged to thwart Azerbaijan’s stated attempts to arrest former Presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian in a third country.
The pace of coronavirus vaccinations in Armenia has slowed further since the recent introduction of a mandatory health pass for entry to cultural and leisure venues.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals refused to release the arrested mayor of the southeastern town of Goris and surrounding villages on Wednesday nearly four months after his opposition bloc’s victory in a local election.
An Armenian judge was arrested on Monday in what he sees as government retaliation for his decision late last month to grant bail to an opposition figure detained in December.
Lawyers representing an Armenian judge claimed on Tuesday that law-enforcement authorities want to arrest him because of his decision to grant bail to an opposition figure detained in December.
The Armenian government has no plans to impose additional restrictions despite a new wave of coronavirus infections sweeping across the country, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said on Thursday.
Opposition deputies were not included, for different reasons, in a delegation of the Armenian parliament that began a working visit to the United States at the weekend.
The Armenian government will soon buy the first batch of a domestically manufactured coronavirus vaccine and offer it to all over-18s as a booster jab, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said on Monday.
The government introduced on Wednesday mandatory weekly testing for all unvaccinated workers as part of its efforts to boost Armenia’s low vaccination rates facilitating the spread of the coronavirus.
Health Minister Anahit Avanesian defended on Tuesday the impending introduction of a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to cultural and leisure venues in Armenia.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has sparked a public outcry after calling for an investigation of the circumstances in which over a dozen Armenian soldiers were taken prisoner by Azerbaijan during the latest border clashes.
The Armenian government said on Wednesday that it could appoint a political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to the governing board of Armenia’s largest mining company in which it gained a minority stake last month.
Few Armenians wore masks outdoors on Monday despite being legally required to do so following a surge in coronavirus cases that have killed more than 1,000 people in the country of about 3 million over the past month.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian made clear on Thursday that his government has no plans to impose lockdown restrictions despite record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths registered in Armenia.
The Armenian government sent mixed signals on Wednesday in response to reports that the leaders of Armenia of Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow early next month to sign more Russian-brokered agreements.
The National Assembly approved on Wednesday an opposition initiative to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the use of funds raised by a government-backed pan-Armenian charity for Nagorno-Karabakh during last year’s war with Azerbaijan.
Security officers dragged an Armenian opposition lawmaker from the parliament podium after he strongly criticized one of his pro-government colleagues on Tuesday.
Invoking recently enacted amendments denounced by local and Western human rights groups, the Armenian police have launched more criminal investigations into what they see as offensive remarks about Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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