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.
Law-enforcement authorities have pointedly declined to say whether they are investigating Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that individuals recruited by foreign intelligence services are involved in ongoing antigovernment protests in Armenia.
Residents of Kirants again blocked a local highway on Thursday after the Armenian government resumed preparations for ceding part of the border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s government took on Wednesday another step towards handing over four border areas to Azerbaijan despite continuing to face angry street protests in Yerevan.
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