Senior Iranian and Armenian security officials spoke by phone on Thursday the day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled readiness to let a U.S. company run a transport corridor for Azerbaijan passing through an Armenian region bordering Iran.
A top representative of Samvel Karapetian dismissed on Thursday government loyalists’ claims that Russia is behind a new Armenian opposition group which is being set up by the jailed Russian-Armenian billionaire.
Armenian opposition leaders have accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of planning to open an extraterritorial land corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia’s strategic Syunik province in yet another concession to Baku.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday that he was not responsible for the April 2022 death of a pregnant woman struck by a police car leading his motorcade.
The Armenian authorities have moved to seize the building of Nagorno-Karabakh’s permanent representation in Yerevan that currently houses the region’s exiled leadership.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Wednesday that he is ready to let a foreign entity handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities announced more criminal charges against jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Wednesday two days after he confirmed plans to set up a new opposition group that will challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Opposition lawmakers have petitioned Armenia’s Constitutional Court to stop the government from seizing the national electric utility owned by Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used by most vehicles in Armenia have jumped by over 40 percent in recent days amid reports about serious hurdles to its import from Russia via neighboring Georgia.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has brought criminal charges against Diana Gasparian, the former pro-government mayor of the town of Vagharshapat who resigned two months ago, sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
The Armenian government on Monday ruled out the possibility of the United States taking over a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Five of the seven Armenian opposition activists arrested late last week on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks have been released without charge.
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