Parish priests from across Armenia on Friday joined senior clergymen in reaffirming support for Catholicos Garegin II and condemning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
A group of angry greenhouse owners in the southern Armavir province demonstrated on Friday to demand that the Armenian government take urgent action over Russia’s serious restrictions on the import of cut flowers from Armenia.
Armenia’s energy regulator has refused to allow the national electric utility owned by jailed businessman Samvel Karapetian to invest an additional 7 billion drams ($18 million) in the country’s power distribution network ahead of its anticipated seizure by the government.
The United States, the European Union and Russia have welcomed fresh face-to-face talks held by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
A pro-Armenian member of the U.S. House of Representatives expressed serious concern on Thursday over last month’s arrests in Armenia of two archbishops and a billionaire businessman critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Seven more members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) were arrested on Thursday on charges or suspicion of “terrorism” dismissed by the opposition party as politically motivated.
The Armenian government is ready, in principle, to allow a foreign entity to handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Abi Dhabi on Thursday for fresh talks on ending the long-running conflict between their countries.
Armenia’s main security service illegally wiretapped the phones of many of the people who rallied in Yerevan last week in support of jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian, a defense lawyer said on Wednesday.
Russia deplored on Wednesday the Armenian government’s travel bans on Russian public figures critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after two more such persons were barred from entering Armenia amid renewed tensions between the two countries.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian spoke with his Iranian counterpart Aziz Nasirzadeh by phone on Wednesday for the first time since Iran’s 12-day war with Israel.
Armenia and Azerbaijan could strike a peace deal “pretty soon,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday ahead of fresh talks between the leaders of the two South Caucasus states.
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