The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s upcoming trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials, saying that it is part of Western efforts to break up Armenia’s alliance with Russia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s Yerevan-based leaders for continuing to present themselves as a government in exile and threatened to crack down on them on Thursday.
The leadership of the Armenian parliament has refused to sign up to a statement by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) condemning last Friday’s terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow.
The U.S. State Department has pointed to Russia’s “destabilizing actions” in the South Caucasus, responding to analysts from an influential U.S. think-tank who warned Armenia against severing ties with Moscow and fully aligning with the West.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Wednesday again questioned the wisdom of having Russian border guards in Armenia while saying that the Armenian government is not considering demanding their withdrawal.
Azerbaijan expressed concern on Wednesday at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s upcoming trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials, saying that it is further proof of the West’s pro-Armenian stance.
Interior Minister Vahe Ghazarian bewildered many motorists on Tuesday when he suggested that a 55 percent rise in traffic deaths in Yerevan recorded last year primarily resulted from what he called a high quality of the city’s roads.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has signaled that he is in no rush to try to enact a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
A senior European Union diplomat has denounced what he called “threats against Armenia” made through the Azerbaijani media amid ongoing border disputes between the two countries.
Armenian investigators reportedly raided the homes of supporters of a radical opposition group on Monday one day after three men linked to it detonated a hand grenade at the entrance to a police station in Yerevan.
Georgia is ready to help Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiate a peace treaty, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said during an official visit to Yerevan on Monday.
An Armenian national is among at least 137 people killed in the terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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