An Armenian archbishop who led last year massive anti-government protests and at least 14 of his supporters were detained on Wednesday, with law-enforcement authorities accusing them of plotting “terrorist acts” in a bid to seize power.
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.
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.
Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian was formally arrested on coup charges on Wednesday one day after strongly condemning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Armenian security services moved to arrest Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Tuesday hours after he strongly condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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.
Two teenage residents of an Armenian border community, who were feared to have been detained by Azerbaijan, returned home on Friday evening less than 24 hours after their disappearance.
Armenia’s military continued to downplay on Wednesday cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan reported by residents of some Armenian border villages on a virtually daily basis.
The wife of Viken Euljekian, one of at least 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, said on Friday that she fears for his life following a hunger strike reported by him recently.
Armenia’s government and military continued to downplay on Tuesday the significance of cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan reported by residents of several Armenian border villages on a virtually daily basis.
The son of Ruben Vardanyan has called on U.S. President Donald Trump to press Azerbaijan to free the prominent businessman and philanthropist and all other Armenian prisoners.
The judge presiding over the new trial of former President Robert Kocharian expelled a journalist from the courtroom on Monday after criticizing her media outlet’s coverage of the high-profile case.
A senior Iranian general emphasized the “strategic importance” of his country’s border with Armenia when he commented on a first-ever Armenian-Iranian military exercise that began in a border area on Wednesday.
Prosecutors have brought fresh criminal charges against Movses Hakobian, Armenia’s former top general who has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of mishandling the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Residents of two border villages in Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province said on Thursday that Azerbaijani troops deployed nearby opened cross-border fire for the seventh consecutive night.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry downplayed on Tuesday the significance of cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan reported by residents of some Armenian border villages.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party on Tuesday rejected opposition demands for significant increases in modest pensions paid to more than 500,000 Armenians.
For the third time in less than 24 hours, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian appealed to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday to sign an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal finalized by the two sides last week.
Azerbaijan on Tuesday repeated its preconditions for signing a peace deal with Armenia and continued to accuse Armenian troops of violating the ceasefire along the border between the two countries.
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