Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed by Azerbaijan, has agreed to end a hunger strike which he began in a Baku prison three weeks ago, his family said on Thursday.
A company importing and selling mobile phones has become Armenia’s number one corporate taxpayer this year in what appears to be a result of Western economic sanctions against Russia.
Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Thursday in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government.
Armenia should consider importing natural gas from Azerbaijan, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Thursday.
The Armenian police made at least 96 arrests late on Wednesday as they broke up a demonstration held in Yerevan by a pro-Western political group demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Law-enforcement authorities could bring criminal charges against over a dozen men arrested during ongoing protests in northern Tavush region against the Armenian government’s decision to hand over four contested border areas to Azerbaijan.
U.S. President Joe Biden again described the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide on Wednesday.
Senior Russian lawmakers on Wednesday strongly condemned Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian for criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a meeting of his counterparts from European Union member states held in Spain earlier this week.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Armenians to “overcome the trauma” of their ethnic kin massacred by the Ottoman Turks and stop yearning for their “lost homeland” as they marked the 109th anniversary of the genocide on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again threatened to pull Armenia out of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) accused by his government of not defending the South Caucasus country.
Armenia must change its constitution and open an extraterritorial corridor to the Nakhichevan exclave if it wants to make peace with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government began handing over border areas to Azerbaijan on Tuesday amid continuing protests staged by residents of adjacent communities in Armenia’s northern Tavush province concerned about their security.
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