Hovik Abrahamian, who served as Armenia’s prime minister from 2014-2016, was arrested on Friday nearly seven years after law-enforcement authorities first brought corruption charges against him.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday that he is not seeking the withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia despite aiming for the country’s eventual membership in the European Union.
Armenia on Friday condemned Israel’s overnight strikes on nuclear facilities and military sites across neighboring Iran and called for an immediate end to the military action.
A U.S. lawyer representing Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan warned on Thursday that he and 22 other Armenians will remain imprisoned in Azerbaijan unless Yerevan presses for their release in peace talks with Baku.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday repeated his strong condemnation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II and expressed confidence that they will end in failure.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted that his administration did not embezzle or misuse $100 million controversially received from a pan-Armenian charity in 2020 as he continued to reject on Thursday corruption allegations made by his political foes.
Azerbaijan’s top Shia Muslim cleric closely linked to the government renewed his attacks on the Armenian Apostolic Church on Wednesday amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II.
Armenia’s customs service has banned local commercial trucks from entering neighboring Georgia, citing continuing major obstacles to their cargo transit through Georgian territory.
In the space of a week, a stray bullet hit an elderly woman in the head in broad daylight, a party thrown by a local government official ended in gunfire, and two men were hospitalized after a shootout in a residential area.
Five people were killed and eleven others injured on Wednesday in an apparent natural-gas explosion that ripped through an apartment block in the northeastern Armenian town Chambarak.
Hundreds of people mobilized by Armenian opposition groups gathered at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport on Tuesday night to greet Catholicos Garegin II and show support for him in his standoff with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In a move denounced by his critics as illegal, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday that he will set up a special body tasked with replacing Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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