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.
A senior official from Armenia’s Investigative Committee has been arrested following an extraordinary theft of $590,000 in cash kept in one of the law-enforcement agency’s buildings in Yerevan.
A state body monitoring the integrity of Armenian officials has launched an inquiry into Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s offensive remarks and threats to imprison opposition parliamentarians.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Thursday that it has arrested nine persons accused of participating in riots sparked by Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government still has no plans to leave a Russian-led trade bloc despite enacting in March a law calling for Armenia’s eventual membership in the European Union, Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan insisted on Thursday.
After months of campaigning purportedly aimed at encouraging Armenians to become more educated, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife has resorted to personal insults to publicly respond to her detractors.
The United States is trying to broker an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal and thus prevent Azerbaijan from invading Armenia, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev again demanded on Wednesday that Armenia ensure the return of Azerbaijanis who lived there until the late 1980s.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday defended his political allies’ calls for the Armenian opposition to try to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian through a parliamentary vote of no confidence.
Iran would not tolerate any attempts to strip it of its common border with Armenia, according to Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh.
Russia and Armenia remain allies despite continuing to disagree on some major issues, the foreign ministers of the two states said after talks held in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh met with his Armenian counterpart Suren Papikian on Tuesday during an official visit to Yerevan that came one month after a first-ever joint military exercise held by the two neighboring states.
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