The pro-government head of Yerevan’s northern Arabkir district has returned to work after spending about a year in prison on bribery charges denied by him.
A senior law-enforcement official who has overseen controversial criminal investigations into two archbishops, billionaire Samvel Karapetian and other jailed critics of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian unexpectedly resigned on Wednesday.
Armenian courts have refused to free a jailed opposition activist who is reportedly showing alarming symptoms two years after surviving brain cancer.
The Armenian government officially confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump will host Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for peace talks at the White House on Friday.
A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned countries “in or outside the region” to stop seeking a land corridor for Azerbaijan that would pass through an Armenian region bordering the Islamic Republic.
There were more reports on Tuesday of U.S. President Donald Trump planning to host talks between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday.
Raising concerns among local and European legal experts, the Armenian Justice Ministry has drafted legislation that would make it easier for private developers to acquire real property against the will of its owners.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijani forces of opening fire on Monday on an excavator building a road for its troops deployed along the border with Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s government pointedly declined to refute on Monday a report saying that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Washington on Friday.
The Armenian government has ordered one of the country’s leading independent newspapers, Aravot, to vacate its state-owned editorial offices in Yerevan which it has leased ever since being founded in 1994.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will close next month its mission in Azerbaijan whose workers have visited Armenian prisoners held in the country, it was announced on Friday.
An opposition figure close to former President Serzh Sarkisian was freed from house arrest on Friday two years after being detained on corruption charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
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