Thousands of supporters of Samvel Karapetian marched to a prison in downtown Yerevan on Friday to demand the release of the Russian-Armenian billionaire arrested two weeks ago after denouncing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev again demanded on Friday that Armenia ensure the return of Azerbaijanis who lived there until the late 1980s as he hosted the leaders of Turkey, Iran and several other Muslim states in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed confidence that the United States will be instrumental in ending conflicts in the South Caucasus when he congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump on America’s Independence Day on Friday.
The Armenian parliament approved on Thursday a government bill that will allow authorities to fine commuters boycotting a significant increase in the cost of public transport in Yerevan.
Nearly three months after committing itself to seeking Armenia’s membership in the European Union, the Armenian government announced on Thursday plans to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a China-led grouping of 10 Eurasian states.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry did not deny on Thursday a report that the United States wants an American company to handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian territory.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Wednesday that former President Serzh Sarkisian will go on trial for a fourth time on more corruption charges that were brought against him five years ago.
Law-enforcement authorities raided the Yerevan offices of jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Tashir Group on Wednesday as the Armenian parliament approved a controversial government bill paving the way for the seizure of its biggest asset: the national electric utility.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan discussed with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi bilateral relations and the aftermath of Iran’s war with Israel in a phone call on Tuesday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday that prosecutors will ask the National Assembly for permission to indict an opposition lawmaker and close collaborator of an Armenian archbishop arrested on coup charges last week.
A Russian-Armenian billionaire arrested two weeks ago right after criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has moved to file an international lawsuit against the Armenian government over its plans to seize Armenia’s national electric utility owned by him.
In what his critics call an admission of abuse of power, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said that his allegations regarding the private lives of senior clergymen are based on information provided to him by Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).
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