Mehdi Sobhani, the Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, rejected on Friday Azerbaijani leaders’ continuing description of much of Armenia’s territory as “Western Azerbaijan.”
Samvel Karapetian, the jailed owner of Armenia’s national electric utility, will fight back “until the end” government attempts to seize it, the company’s chief executive said on Friday.
Russia will consider retaliating against economic decisions stemming from Armenia’s ongoing “rapprochement” with the European Union, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said on Friday.
Security forces clashed with angry priests and other followers of the Armenian Apostolic Church on Friday as they tried unsuccessfully to arrest another archbishop critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia continues to reject Azerbaijan’s demands to open a land corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s June 20 visit to Turkey, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday that his government has opted for a more gradual tactic of seizing Armenia’s national electric utility from Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian controversially arrested last week.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday threatened to forcibly remove Catholicos Garegin II from his Echmiadzin headquarters if the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church continues to ignore his demands to resign.
A spokeswoman for Khachatur Sukiasian, a wealthy businessman close to the Armenian government, did not confirm on Wednesday a report that Russia has imposed an entry ban on him after linking him to an alleged fraud scheme.
Russia said on Wednesday that it is touch with the Armenian government in connection with last week’s controversial arrest of a Russian-Armenian billionaire critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian reaffirmed support for Catholicos Garegin II when he met with the embattled head of the Armenian Apostolic Church for the second time in over two weeks on Wednesday.
An Armenian archbishop who led last year massive anti-government protests and at least 14 of his supporters were detained on Wednesday, with law-enforcement authorities accusing them of plotting “terrorist acts” in a bid to seize power.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday that he is pressing ahead with controversial plans to nationalize Armenia’s sole electric utility which he announced last week right after the arrest of its owner at loggerheads with him.
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