The National Assembly held on Friday hearings on the introduction of “transitional justice” in Armenia which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian regards as a major element of judicial reforms planned by him.
Armenian prosecutors have decided to appeal against a judge’s controversial decision to suspend former President Robert Kocharian’s trial and request an important clarification from the Constitutional Court.
The president of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakian, insisted on Monday that he is unaware of the existence of anti-government forces which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said are plotting conspiracies and treasonous acts in Karabakh.
A major opposition party pushed on Monday for an emergency session of the Armenian parliament after criticizing a blockade of the country’s courts initiated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s leading opposition forces denounced as unconstitutional on Sunday night Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s calls for a blockade of all court buildings in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday reacted cautiously to repeated calls for former President Robert Kocharian’s release from custody made by Nagorno-Karabakh’s current and former leaders.
Calls for Robert Kocharian’s release from custody voiced by Nagorno-Karabakh’s present and former leaders reflect public opinion in the Armenian ex-president’s native region, the speaker of the Karabakh parliament said on Wednesday.
Two Armenian pro-government lawmakers on Monday hit out at a senior Nagorno-Karabakh official who has traded insults with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s press secretary.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed suggestions that his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev behaved disrespectfully towards him at a Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) meeting held in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reiterated on Friday that the number of officially employed people in Armenia has increased by more than 50,000 since last spring’s “velvet revolution” that brought him to power.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) is not legally allowed to launch a crackdown on false news reports and social media comments ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a prominent civic activist insisted on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed three senior members of his staff, including the mother of the influential head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).
The Special Investigation Service is looking into claims made recently by a former senior official about massive falsifications during the 1998 presidential election that allegedly gave victory to then Prime Minister Robert Kocharian, a spokesperson said on Friday.
Armenian’s National Security Service will present new “high-profile revelations” soon as part of its ongoing anticorruption efforts, the powerful agency’s chief told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Friday.
The Ethics Committee for High-Ranking Officials has found that the head of a supervisory body subordinate to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has violated rules of ethics set out in Armenia’s law on public service.
There is a growing wave of social discontent in Armenia and it is dangerous if the prime minister is not aware of it, an opposition lawmaker said on Wednesday, commenting on the statement that Nikol Pashinian amde at a press conference yesterday.
An extra-parliamentary party espousing radical views has announced the start of a process “to incorporate Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia as a province,” one of its leader said on Monday.
Armenia and Georgia are unanimous in their opinion that conflicts in the region have different natures and the grounds for their settlement are not identical, Armenian President Armen Sarkisian said following his talks with visiting Georgian counterpart Salome Zourabichvili in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh where he is to chair a meeting of Armenia’s Security Council planned for tomorrow, his press service said on Monday.
Armenia’s government is doing its best to bring back home a resident of an Armenian border village who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Azerbaijan, Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian said on Wednesday.
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