Lawyers for Samvel Karapetian, a billionaire businessman arrested last month after denouncing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church, petitioned Armenia’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday to release him from custody.
An Armenian honorary consul in Russia has reportedly been sacked after criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s ongoing campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church and the resulting arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian.
An Armenian court freed former Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian from house arrest on Monday six weeks after he was briefly detained on corruption charges brought against him in 2018.
A company importing mobile phones and re-exporting many of them to Russia became Armenia’s number one corporate taxpayer in the first half of this year, continuing to take advantage of Western sanctions against Moscow.
Samvel Karapetian will be the top leader of a new opposition group which he is creating in a bid to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a representative of the jailed Russian-Armenian billionaire said at the weekend.
Iran has indicated its strong opposition to the U.S. proposal to have an American company run a transport corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave that would pass through Armenia’s Syunik region bordering the Islamic Republic.
Ignoring an injunction issued by an international arbitration body, Armenia’s government has replaced more senior executives of the national electric utility owned by jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian and his family.
A former senior official from Armenia’s Investigative Committee was moved to house arrest on Friday two months after reportedly admitting organizing the theft of $590,000 in cash kept at the law-enforcement agency.
The Armenian government has turned down a U.S. proposal to lease a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, according to a senior lawmaker allied to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian appeals court has ordered a law-enforcement agency to launch criminal investigations into two supporters of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian who have made offensive comments about refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on social media.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reportedly told his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin on Thursday that he still has no plans to pull Armenia out of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-led trade bloc.
Russia criticized on Thursday the U.S. proposal to have an American company run a transport corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave passing through Armenia’s strategic Syunik region.
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