A high-ranking Armenian cleric has praised former President Robert Kocharian but lambasted his successor Serzh Sarkisian, drawing the ire of the latter’s political allies.
Armenia and Iran will hold a joint military exercise on the border between the two countries, the Armenian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Russia said on Wednesday that it has moved closer to opening a consulate in Armenia’s strategic Syunik region after apparent obstruction from Yerevan.
Armenia will risk another war with Azerbaijan unless it enacts a new constitution demanded by Baku, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Wednesday.
Anti-graft activists expressed on Tuesday serious concern over an apparent lack of progress in a nearly two-year criminal investigation into a now defunct state fund that was tasked with attracting foreign investment in Armenia.
A senior official from Yerevan’s municipal administration facing corruption charges denied by him was arrested on Monday night for the second time in one month.
Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatrian has defended the Armenian government’s decision to largely end housing allowances for many refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh which has sparked angry protests in Yerevan.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian has indicated government plans to fast-track the drafting of a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
Residents of two border villages in Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province said on Monday that Azerbaijani troops deployed nearby continued to open cross-border fire overnight.
Armenia’s government has drawn strong condemnation from the opposition after saying that Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders are to blame for its decision to stop raising the Karabakh issue in peace talks with Azerbaijan.
A U.S. lawyer representing Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan has insisted that the release of his client and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan is a “top priority” for the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the resulting opening of Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s borders with Armenia would significantly boost links between Europe and Central Asia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.
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