Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian demanded the resignation of Catholicos Garegin II on Monday amid growing support for the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church voiced by opposition and public figures, including former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Three people, including a police officer, were injured on Sunday when their cars collided on a highway in Armenia’s southern Ararat province just seconds after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade raced through it.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s opposition Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) is making another attempt to put a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his government.
Georgia’s agriculture minister has abruptly cancelled a visit to Armenia during which he was due to discuss major obstacles to the transit through Georgian territory of Armenian brandy exports to Russia.
Russia again played down its tensions with Armenia through the speaker of its upper house of parliament, Valentina Matvienko, who visited Yerevan and praised Russian-Armenian relations on Friday.
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.
An ongoing campaign by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife purportedly aimed at educating Armenians but dismissed by critics as a political gimmick is financed by Armenia’s government, a senior official revealed on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian used offensive language to angrily deny on Thursday any illicit enrichment of himself or his family alleged by his detractors.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian telephoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday to congratulate him on the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday and discuss Turkish-Armenian relations and regional security.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan acknowledged on Thursday the lingering risk of a fresh military conflict with Azerbaijan, seemingly contradicting statements made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Samvel Shahramanian, who served until this month as Nagorno-Karabakh’s president in exile, was interrogated by an Armenian law-enforcement agency on Wednesday for the fourth time in two weeks following reports about Armenian government efforts to prevent his reelection.
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.
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