A jailed Armenian archbishop who led last year massive anti-government protests and 17 of his supporters went on trial on Tuesday on coup charges rejected by them as politically motivated.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian appeared to have failed to dispel neighboring Iran’s concerns about his decision to grant the United States exclusive rights to a transit corridor for Azerbaijan during talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian held in Yerevan on Tuesday.
An Armenian police officer whose car struck and killed a pregnant woman while leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade in April 2022 was sentenced to 18 months in prison at the end of his marathon trial on Monday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by Azerbaijan’s September 2023 offensive should stop hoping to return to its homeland, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday as he again touted Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Law-enforcement authorities have brought corruption charges against the former head of a now defunct state fund that was disbanded last year after failing attract major foreign investment in Armenia.
Two days after being censured by a state ethics body, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian apologized on Sunday for using offensive language to attack an opposition leader and a senior clergyman of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has found Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in breach of ethics after reviewing public complaints that he used the equivalent of the F-word on social media and an opposition claim that he called a political opponent a “scumbag” during a parliamentary debate.
Archbishop Mikael Ajapahian, accused of calling for the seizure of power and the violent overthrow of the constitutional order, has gone on trial in Armenia on charges his legal team and supporters describe as politically motivated.
A senior Russian official has indicated Moscow’s support for Armenia in its plans to establish a transport corridor with Azerbaijan that includes a U.S. role, “if Yerevan considers it necessary.”
A newly emerging Armenian opposition group has moved to distance itself from the country’s former leaders as it prepares to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
A senior Armenian diplomat has sought to calm Iranian concerns over growing U.S. involvement in the South Caucasus, emphasizing that a new connectivity project involving the United States will not entail any American security presence near Iran’s borders.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has highlighted the potential economic benefits of a Washington-brokered peace deal with Azerbaijan for Russia and Iran – two countries that have expressed misgivings about U.S. involvement in regional projects.
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