One Armenian journalist has been hit by a police vehicle and another knocked unconscious while covering police crackdowns on protesters in Yerevan demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Police in Armenia detained early on Thursday dozens of people in a border village in the northern Tavush province trying to prevent the controversial handover of adjacent border areas to Azerbaijan.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Monday that it has brought criminal charges against one of several dozen persons who jeered Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife last week.
An Armenian court on Friday again refused to free an opposition figure from Vanadzor who was arrested right after defeating Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in a municipal election held in December 2021.
Law-enforcement authorities could bring criminal charges against over a dozen men arrested during ongoing protests in northern Tavush region against the Armenian government’s decision to hand over four contested border areas to Azerbaijan.
Friday’s high-level negotiations between Armenia, the United States and the European Union will add to the West’s geopolitical rivalry with Russia in the South Caucasus, former President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
A former Nagorno-Karabakh official who did not flee the region right after its recapture by Azerbaijan has been arrested on espionage charges after unexpectedly arriving in Armenia late last week.
Investigators raided on Friday the offices of a fringe political group increasingly critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in connection with an armed attacked on a police station in Yerevan carried out by its supporters.
Two men were wounded and another arrested during an apparent armed attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by them on Sunday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian met with an exiled opponent of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Brussels on Thursday, underscoring a growing pro-Western tilt in Armenia’s foreign policy.
A once prominent Armenian politician accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and seize power will be moved to house arrest on Saturday after spending six months in pre-trial detention.
A lawyer representing former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian on Thursday strongly denied corruption charges brought against him, saying that they are the result of a deeply flawed criminal investigation.
The pro-government majority in the National Assembly on Wednesday refused to elect a candidate nominated by Armenian judges as a member of the Constitutional Court.
Russia allowed an Azerbaijani man accused by Armenia of beheading a Nagorno-Karabakh civilian during the 2020 war to return to Azerbaijan on Thursday one day after briefly detaining him at a Moscow airport.
Police in Russia briefly detained on Wednesday an Azerbaijani man accused by Armenia of committing war crimes during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan allowed law-enforcement authorities to put former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian under house arrest on Friday one day after they indicted him in an ongoing corruption investigation criticized by him.
One day after being relieved of his duties, former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian was indicted and detained on Thursday in an ongoing corruption investigation criticized by him.
A powerful body overseeing Armenia’s courts faced on Monday fresh accusations of suppressing judicial independence after circulating a video that lambastes judges presiding over the protracted trials of former senior officials at odds with the country’s current leadership.
A court in Yerevan on Monday gave a suspended prison sentence to a prominent Armenian surgeon and former opposition lawmaker convicted of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
Armenia is ready to formally pledge not to have any territorial claims to Azerbaijan in the future, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said over the weekend.
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