Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday that he is pressing ahead with controversial plans to nationalize Armenia’s sole electric utility which he announced last week right after the arrest of its owner at loggerheads with him.
One week after being arrested on coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated, Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Tuesday continued accusing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of misrule and promising to deal with grave challenges facing Armenia.
The Armenian and Georgian governments have reached an agreement that should remove major obstacles to the transit through Georgia of Armenian brandy exported to Russia, according to Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan.
Armenia on Monday accused countries making up the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) of questioning its territorial integrity after they urged Yerevan to accept Azerbaijan’s terms for ending the conflict between the two South Caucasus states.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday described a wealthy businessman close to the Armenian government as a “beneficiary” of an Armenian company which it said has imported stolen Russian diamonds.
Catholicos Garegin II condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose him and other senior clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church during a religious festival held in Echmiadzin on Sunday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian discussed bilateral relations, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and other regional developments during talks held in Istanbul on Friday.
Police in Armenia reportedly detained dozens of opposition activists on Friday in a crackdown linked by opposition leaders to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to Turkey.
Russian companies see no future in Armenia and trade between the two countries is already shrinking rapidly as a result of Yerevan’s plans to seek to eventually join the European Union, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said on Friday.
An Armenian village close to the Iranian border reportedly came under cross-border Azerbaijani fire on Friday as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian flew to Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Armenian opposition leaders condemned on Thursday the arrest and prosecution of billionaire businessman Samvel Karapetian that followed his strong criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked a major street in Yerevan for the second consecutive day on Thursday in protest against the sudden dismissal of National Security Service (NSS) Director Armen Abazian.
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