Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian discussed bilateral relations, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and other regional developments during talks held in Istanbul on Friday.
Police in Armenia reportedly detained dozens of opposition activists on Friday in a crackdown linked by opposition leaders to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to Turkey.
Russian companies see no future in Armenia and trade between the two countries is already shrinking rapidly as a result of Yerevan’s plans to seek to eventually join the European Union, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said on Friday.
An Armenian village close to the Iranian border reportedly came under cross-border Azerbaijani fire on Friday as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian flew to Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Armenian opposition leaders condemned on Thursday the arrest and prosecution of billionaire businessman Samvel Karapetian that followed his strong criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked a major street in Yerevan for the second consecutive day on Thursday in protest against the sudden dismissal of National Security Service (NSS) Director Armen Abazian.
Contradicting statements by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, lawmakers representing his party said on Thursday that they have not seen any draft legislation stemming from his controversial pledge to nationalize Armenia’s electric utility owned by a jailed businessman.
Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian was formally arrested on coup charges on Wednesday one day after strongly condemning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Thousands of Iranians and other foreign nationals have been arriving in Armenia via its only land border crossing with Iran since tensions between the Islamic Republic and Israel escalated into a full-blown conflict late last week.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday denounced as “provocative” his critics’ warnings that Azerbaijan may take advantage of the conflict between Iran and Israel to invade Armenia to open a land corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced plans to nationalize Armenia’s sole electric utility on Wednesday hours after its Russian-Armenian owner, Samvel Karapetian, was arrested on what he sees as politically motivated charges.
Armen Abazian, the director of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), was dismissed on Wednesday the day after his officers failed to swiftly arrest a Russian-Armenian billionaire at loggerheads with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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