The National Security Service (NSS) reportedly raided the offices of Armenia’s largest mining company and detained the mayor of a nearby town on Thursday in what the main opposition Hayastan alliance condemned as a continuing government crackdown on its members.
A prominent surgeon running a hospital in Yerevan and supporting an Armenian opposition group was arrested again on Wednesday on charges of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the June 20 parliamentary elections.
Vote counting began in Armenia late on Sunday after polls closed in tightly contested general elections.
The Armenian authorities denied on Thursday opposition allegations that they are grossly underreporting the number of Armenian soldiers and civilians who went missing during the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Another Armenian soldier was captured by Azerbaijani forces on Tuesday in a continuing military standoff on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
Tensions remain high along contested sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, with the Armenian military claiming on Monday to have forced Azerbaijani troops to stop fortifying some of their new positions controversially taken almost a month ago.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have resumed direct talks with Russian mediation over a continuing military standoff at several portions of their border.
The director and two other employees of a morgue were fired on Wednesday as the Armenian authorities faced accusations of showing disrespect to the bodies of Armenian soldiers killed during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutiunian met on Tuesday with the commander of Russian peacekeeping forces deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh to discuss the continuing military standoff on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
Armenia accused Azerbaijan of resorting to border “provocations” after Azerbaijani troops reportedly crossed into its southeastern Syunik province early on Wednesday.
The European Union has called on Azerbaijan to free all Armenian soldiers and civilians held by it more than five months after a Russian-brokered ceasefire stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A Lebanese-Armenian woman was set free on Wednesday four months after being detained by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian prosecutors have brought criminal charges against yet another local government official who demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation following the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian government has extended wide-ranging economic benefits to residents of 39 more villages close to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government has pledged to build or repair roads bypassing areas along Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province controversially handed over to Azerbaijan as a result of the Russian-brokered ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Hundreds of residents of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province bordering districts recaptured by Azerbaijan during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked a highway on Thursday to protest against Armenian troop redeployments resulting from the Russian-brokered ceasefire.
The two Syrians captured during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh cannot be swapped with Armenian prisoners of war or civilians held by Azerbaijan, an Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Wednesday.
Three employees of a state-run orphanage in Yerevan have been arrested on charges of ill-treating its children aged between 3 and 6 years.
The long-serving director of Armenia’s National Archive, Amatuni Virabian, on Friday condemned the government’s decision to sack him as illegal and pleged to challenge it in court.
Health authorities continued to hospitalize people at the weekend as a result of Armenia’s worst-ever alcohol poisoning which has left 17 people dead and nearly 30 others seriously ill.
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