Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday accused the Armenian Apostolic Church of meddling in politics and said the government should impose more taxes on it in response to antigovernment protests led by one of its archbishops.
The Armenian government on Monday did not deny or confirm reports that Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi cancelled at the last minute a visit to Armenia scheduled for Sunday, the day that he died in a helicopter crash.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday effectively joined other opposition parties in voicing support for street protests in Yerevan against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday hit out at his predecessor and dozens of other retired diplomats involved in ongoing protests against the Armenian government’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Thousands of people demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation again rallied in Yerevan on Friday on the second day of demonstrations led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and backed by virtually all Armenian opposition groups.
Hundreds of people protesting against the Armenian government’s decision to cede key border areas to Azerbaijan continued to march to Yerevan on Monday, with a senior clergyman leading them insisting that their campaign is gaining momentum.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will not attend Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fifth term as president scheduled for Tuesday, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
Police continued to block on Friday all roads leading to a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province one day after arresting dozens of local residents trying to prevent the handover of adjacent territory to Azerbaijan.
Political allies Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian are stepping up scathing personal attacks on a senior clergyman leading nearly two-week protests in Armenia’s northern Tavush province against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan made by the government.
Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Thursday in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday held more meetings with concerned residents of two villages in Armenia’s northeastern Tavush province adjacent to border areas which he seems intent on handing over to Azerbaijan.
Iran says it has received assurances from Armenia regarding its concerns about the potential escalation of geopolitical competition in the South Caucasus stemming from the Armenian leader’s recent high-level discussions with officials from the United States and the European Union in Brussels.
A close ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has denied that his recent controversial remarks on the need to verify the number of the 1915 Armenian genocide victims by drawing up their complete list reflect any political decision of the establishment in this regard.
In remarks denounced by critics as advancement of a Turkish narrative a close ally of Prime Minister Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has pronounced in favor of essentially “verifying” the number of victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey that is widely believed to be 1.5 million.
Armenia has replied to the latest edition of proposals from the Azerbaijani side regarding the draft peace treaty, an Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
A senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan has stopped short of linking the shootings reported along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in recent days to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s meeting with top EU and U.S. officials in Brussels on April 5.
The United States and the European Union are not pressuring Armenia to leave Russian-led alliances of ex-Soviet states during Yerevan’s ongoing rapprochement with the Western powers, a senior Armenian official insisted on Thursday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating the ceasefire along their border on Monday night as tensions between them rose ahead of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials.
Nagorno-Karabakh political figures condemned on Friday Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s threats to crack down on Karabakh’s Yerevan-based leadership which is continuing to present itself as a government in exile.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s Yerevan-based leaders for continuing to present themselves as a government in exile and threatened to crack down on them on Thursday.
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