The Armenian government has indicated plans to introduce drug tests in the country’s schools in response to a sharp rise in drug trafficking and abuse recorded during its nearly seven-year tenure.
The government has moved to establish a new auxiliary force that would reinforce Armenia’s army in times of war.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has launched a fresh criminal investigation into a lawmaker ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party after defying Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s “request” to resign from the parliament.
The Armenian community in Syria and the war-torn city of Aleppo in particular hopes to receive urgent economic assistance from Armenia, one of its representatives indicated on Wednesday.
A senior representative of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party on Friday pointedly declined to say whether Armenia is discussing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s further demands in ongoing negotiations on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday confirmed that he refused to host an upcoming Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) summit and said Armenia will not unfreeze its membership in another Russian-led bloc: the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday claimed to have successfully coped with grave security challenges facing Armenia, saying that he can now guarantee the country’s survival “for the next century.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has confirmed his intention to appoint an acting mayor of Gyumri ahead of an early municipal election expected in Armenia’s second largest city.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted a former provincial governor on Thursday one day after naming him as Armenia’s new minister of territorial administration and infrastructures.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian named Armenia’s new ministers of interior and public infrastructures on Wednesday, replacing two of the six senior state officials forced by him to resign on Monday.
A member of the ruling Civil Contract party who has denounced “Russian neocolonialism” in Armenia was appointed on Friday as head of the country’s state utility regulator.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s presumptive top candidate in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri denied on Tuesday media reports that he bitterly argued and brawled with other local activists allied to the Armenian government.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday rejected an opposition-drafted resolution calling on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan to free all of the at least 23 Armenian prisoners held by it.
A senior Armenian official did not rule out Armenia’s participation in the COP29 climate summit just as it kicked off in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Monday.
Armenia has signaled that differences remain with Azerbaijan over the draft text of a peace treaty following the latest exchange of proposals earlier this week.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian spoke about another “day of self-criticism” within Civil Contract following the ruling party’s late Thursday meeting chaired by him.
Two opposition factions in the Armenian parliament have initiated a move to convene a special session of the legislative body on the issue of prisoners of war and other Armenians jailed in Azerbaijan.
A top Armenian investigator has expresses regret regarding an incident between him and a group of pro-government lawmakers that took place in parliament earlier this month.
Armenia’s anti-corruption body has launched a criminal probe following claims by the country’s top investigator regarding attempts at interference in an investigation allegedly orchestrated by a pro-government lawmaker.
Official Yerevan says no revision of the Armenian-Russian interstate agreement on the status of Russian border guards in Armenia is planned following a decision earlier this month that a checkpoint at the border with Iran will be manned exclusively by Armenian personnel beginning next year.
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