Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has been questioned as a witness as part of an investigation into a possible abuse of official authorities related to the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia’s Investigative Committee said.
The Armenian Apostolic Church has authorized one of its senior clergymen to address an opposition rally in Yerevan that will warn Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian against recognizing Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh.
A senior official from the U.S. State Department has visited one of the sections of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijani which saw heavy fighting last month.
An Armenian man is among eight suspects arrested by Russia over the bombing of a strategic bridge to Crimea which Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.
Azerbaijan on Tuesday freed and handed over to Armenia 17 Armenian soldiers taken prisoner last month during two days of heavy fighting on the border between the two countries.
Arayik Harutiunian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president, has expressed hope that Russian peacekeeping forces will remain stationed in Karabakh in the foreseeable future.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of executing at least two of its soldiers who were taken prisoner during last week’s heavy fighting on the border between the two states.
An ad hoc commission working on constitutional reform will officially respond later this month to outgoing Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian’s controversial calls for restoring the death penalty for individuals convicted of high treason in Armenia.
The director of a Yerevan market where an apparent fireworks warehouse explosion last Sunday killed more than a dozen people has denied any breach of fire-safety regulations.
A court in Yerevan on Thursday granted bail to former Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian who was arrested last September on a string of corruption charges denied by him.
An Armenian opposition figure prosecuted on what he sees as politically motivated charges was arrested again on Wednesday one week after his release from custody.
An Armenian government agency has asked prosecutors to investigate its allegations of serious financial irregularities committed by Yerevan’s municipal administration during former Mayor Hayk Marutian’s tenure.
A former Armenian mayor arrested after defeating the ruling Civil Contract in a local election in Vanadzor last December has been hospitalized following a reported deterioration of his health.
An Armenian opposition figure was released from custody late on Wednesday more than two months after being arrested on what he sees as trumped-up charges.
Armenia’s Central Bank on Monday did not confirm or deny reports that one of its senior executives is facing strong government pressure to resign because of being the brother of a jailed opposition politician.
Three weeks after a stated decriminalization of slander in Armenia, law-enforcement authorities are continuing to formally prosecute individuals accused of insulting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian or other senior officials.
Law-enforcement authorities have pledged to investigate the sudden death of a vocal critic of the Armenian government who was controversially arrested two months ago.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Wednesday that it has not yet indicted anyone in an ongoing investigation into leaked audio that led to the resignation of Gagik Jahangirian, the acting head of the country’s judicial watchdog.
Gagik Khachatrian, a former Armenian finance minister and tax chief standing trial on corruption charges, refused on Friday to comment on U.S. law-enforcement authorities’ efforts to confiscate his luxury mansion in California.
Dozens of parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh again rallied outside prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Thursday to demand criminal charges against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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