Friday’s high-level negotiations between Armenia, the United States and the European Union will add to the West’s geopolitical rivalry with Russia in the South Caucasus, former President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
A former Nagorno-Karabakh official who did not flee the region right after its recapture by Azerbaijan has been arrested on espionage charges after unexpectedly arriving in Armenia late last week.
Investigators raided on Friday the offices of a fringe political group increasingly critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in connection with an armed attacked on a police station in Yerevan carried out by its supporters.
Two men were wounded and another arrested during an apparent armed attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by them on Sunday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian met with an exiled opponent of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Brussels on Thursday, underscoring a growing pro-Western tilt in Armenia’s foreign policy.
A once prominent Armenian politician accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and seize power will be moved to house arrest on Saturday after spending six months in pre-trial detention.
A lawyer representing former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian on Thursday strongly denied corruption charges brought against him, saying that they are the result of a deeply flawed criminal investigation.
The pro-government majority in the National Assembly on Wednesday refused to elect a candidate nominated by Armenian judges as a member of the Constitutional Court.
Russia allowed an Azerbaijani man accused by Armenia of beheading a Nagorno-Karabakh civilian during the 2020 war to return to Azerbaijan on Thursday one day after briefly detaining him at a Moscow airport.
Police in Russia briefly detained on Wednesday an Azerbaijani man accused by Armenia of committing war crimes during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan allowed law-enforcement authorities to put former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian under house arrest on Friday one day after they indicted him in an ongoing corruption investigation criticized by him.
One day after being relieved of his duties, former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian was indicted and detained on Thursday in an ongoing corruption investigation criticized by him.
A powerful body overseeing Armenia’s courts faced on Monday fresh accusations of suppressing judicial independence after circulating a video that lambastes judges presiding over the protracted trials of former senior officials at odds with the country’s current leadership.
A court in Yerevan on Monday gave a suspended prison sentence to a prominent Armenian surgeon and former opposition lawmaker convicted of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
Armenia is ready to formally pledge not to have any territorial claims to Azerbaijan in the future, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said over the weekend.
A court in Yerevan ended the marathon trial of former President Robert Kocharian on Wednesday after he agreed to plead the statute of limitations despite strongly denying corruption charges leveled against him.
A Russian conscript soldier who reportedly deserted his army unit fighting in Ukraine has been arrested in Armenia and sent back to Russia.
An Armenian journalist has been stripped of her parliamentary accreditation after arguing with a senior pro-government deputy who accused her newspaper of corruption.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed an appeal filed more than three years ago by the former chairman and three other members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court against their dismissal engineered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Armenian authorities have moved to confiscate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets belonging to Gagik Tsarukian, one of Armenia’s richest men leading a major opposition party.
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