Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday accused the Armenian Apostolic Church of meddling in politics and said the government should impose more taxes on it in response to antigovernment protests led by one of its archbishops.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian met with exiled leaders and ordinary refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of ongoing consultations aimed at ramping up momentum for his opposition-backed bid to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Hundreds of Armenian lawyers went on strike on Tuesday, protesting against government plans to significantly increase taxes paid by them.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with the deputy director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, David Cohen, in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Police made at least 14 arrests on Monday as they confronted angry protesters trying to enter an Armenian border village that is losing part of its territory as a result of the Armenian government’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government on Monday did not deny or confirm reports that Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi cancelled at the last minute a visit to Armenia scheduled for Sunday, the day that he died in a helicopter crash.
Armenia’s political leadership and opposition figures expressed on Monday condolences over the deaths of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash.
Police again blocked on Sunday the roads leading to a village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province that will be affected hardest by the Armenian government’s decision to cede several local border areas to Azerbaijan.
Artur Davtian, who served as Armenia’s prosecutor-general until September 2022, has added his voice to demands for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation made during ongoing antigovernment protests in Armenia.
Exiled political leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have rejected as inadequate the Armenian government’s new plan to help Karabakh refugees obtain permanent housing in Armenia.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday effectively joined other opposition parties in voicing support for street protests in Yerevan against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Residents of Kirants, a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province, met with the provincial governor Friday on the second day of their renewed protests against the transfer of a part of their community to Azerbaijan.
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