Catholicos Garegin will join world leaders in attending the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, the Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
Pro-government and opposition lawmakers brawled in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday after the main opposition Hayastan alliance announced that it has drafted legislation toughening punishment for anyone who denies or questions the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Russia continued to warn Armenia on Tuesday of severe economic consequences of its efforts to join the European Union.
European Union monitors confirmed on Tuesday that an Armenian border village was targeted by gunshots which local residents and Armenia’s Defense Ministry say were fired from nearby Azerbaijani army positions.
The judge presiding over the new trial of former President Robert Kocharian expelled a journalist from the courtroom on Monday after criticizing her media outlet’s coverage of the high-profile case.
Armenia’s current constitution does not lack domestic legitimacy or contain territorial claims to Azerbaijan, the chairman of the country’s Constitutional Court, Arman Dilanian, insisted on Monday.
In an apparent stern rebuke to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Catholicos Garegin II condemned “reprehensible attempts to deny or question” the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in his Easter message to the nation on Sunday.
Azerbaijani forces again shot at a border village in Armenia’s Syunik province overnight, damaging one of its residential houses, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Four days after former President Serzh Sarkisian pledged to continue fighting for regime change in Armenia, an appeals court overturned his acquittal over corruption accusations rejected by him as politically motivated.
Senior Armenian and Russian officials discussed Turkish-Armenian normalization talks on Friday in another sign of Yerevan’s efforts to improve relations with Moscow.
Another political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population for fleeing the region following Azerbaijan’s large-scale military assault in September 2023.
Armenia has voted for a European Union-sponsored resolution by the United Nations General Assembly denouncing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
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