7+ hour ago  (326+ words) An Armenian opposition politician was briefly detained and charged with spreading antigovernment "hate speech" on Friday less than one year after his release from prison. Ruben Hakobian briefly spoke to RFE/RL's Armenian Service as he was being taken to…...

9+ hour, 55+ min ago  (396+ words) Six opposition groups and one pro-government party petitioned Armenia's Constitutional Court on Friday to invalidate the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections that gave victory to the ruling Civil Contract party. The official election runner-up, the Strong Armenia alliance…...

8+ hour, 17+ min ago  (300+ words) Following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's pledges to "dispossess" his main political foes, the Armenian authorities have launched tax audits of companies owned by opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian, his spokeswoman said on Friday. "Dozens of companies of the Multi Group concern…...

11+ hour, 44+ min ago  (587+ words) Armenia has urged the European Union to speed up its aid measures designed to help the country mitigate potentially severe consequences of a Russian embargo on key Armenian imports, according to diplomatic sources in Brussels. One of the sources told…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (218+ words) Less than two weeks after the Armenian parliamentary elections, Azerbaijan's leadership renewed on Thursday its demands for Armenia to allow a mass influx of Azerbaijanis who had lived there in Soviet times. "Every Western Azerbaijani has the right to return…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (212+ words) French and Greek soldiers joined an annual U. S. -Armenian military exercise that began in Armenia on Wednesday amid the South Caucasus country's heightened tensions with Russia. According to the Armenian Defense Ministry, the weeklong exercise codenamed Eagle Partner 2026 involves 250 Armenian soldiers,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (346+ words) Two more opposition parties announced on Tuesday that they will ask Armenia's Constitutional Court to invalidate the official results of the June 7 parliamentary election rejected by them as fraudulent. The parties led by former human rights ombudsman Arman Tatoyan and…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (367+ words) A local government employee in a border village in northern Armenia claims to have been forced to resign after dismissing as misleading the official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections in her community. They showed the ruling Civil Contract party…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (349+ words) Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with his European Union counterparts on Monday, indicating the Armenian government's intention to continue moving closer to the European Union despite economic sanctions threatened or already imposed by Russia. The foreign ministers of EU member…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (348+ words) Independent vote-monitoring groups on Monday joined the Armenian opposition in challenging official results of the June 7 parliamentary elections that gave victory to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's Civil Contract party. The Independent Observer, a Western-funded coalition of three such groups, accused…...