One week after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian vowed to jail opposition leader Seyran Ohanian, prosecutors announced on Wednesday the completion of a criminal investigation into his indicted son who led an Armenian army unit during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of assaulting in November 2020 then parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan during riots sparked by Armenia’s defeat in a war with Azerbaijan.
At least one senior official from Armenia’s National Archive has been charged with spying for Azerbaijan, it emerged on Wednesday.
Lawmakers from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party and main opposition Hayastan alliance nearly came to blows on Wednesday as they continued to trade accusations over government corruption in the country.
Representatives of several Armenian companies producing brandy and exporting it to Russia rallied outside Georgia’s embassy in Yerevan on Tuesday to protest against physical checks on their alcoholic beverage conducted during its transit through Georgian territory.
A senior European Union official reportedly praised Armenia on Tuesday for passing in March a law calling for its eventual membership in the EU.
Armenia’s government and military continued to downplay on Tuesday the significance of cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan reported by residents of several Armenian border villages on a virtually daily basis.
The Armenian police have denied mistreating or humiliating a vocal critic of the government who was arrested late last week on multiple charges denied by her.
Investigators questioned on Monday Zhirayr Sefilian, the leader of a pro-Western political group challenging the Armenian government, in connection with a 1999 deadly attack on the country’s parliament.
Armenia should change its constitution, agree to the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh and open a land corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said over the weekend.
In what local journalists see as a pre-election attempt to curb press freedom, Armenia’s Ministry of Justice has drafted legislation that would force online media to remove content deemed slanderous by authorities.
The Armenian government has taken no further action yet since pushing through the parliament in March a bill calling for Armenia’s eventual membership in the European Union, a senior official in Yerevan indicated on Friday.
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