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De facto authorities in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh faced criticism for holding elections amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Voters wore face masks as they lined up at polling stations in the city of Stepanakert on March 31 to cast their ballots. Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed territory within Azerbaijan that was seized by Armenia-backed separatists decades ago.
De-facto authorities in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh are holding presidential and parliamentary elections amid international criticism and despite a coronavirus pandemic.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has urged voters to back proposed changes to the constitution that would lead to the removal of a majority of Constitutional Court judges.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating the fragile cease-fire along their border for a second time in less than two weeks.
Former Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Oganyan has been charged with embezzling more than $2 million worth of state funds during his tenure.
Armenia says it will extend the closure of its border with neighboring Iran, where an outbreak of the coronavirus has killed dozens of people.
Armenia has detected its first confirmed case of a coronavirus infection, that of a 29-year-old man who recently returned with his wife from Iran, the Caucasus nation’s leader says.
Armenia will repatriate dozens of its citizens from Iran, one of the countries hardest hit by the new coronavirus outbreak outside China.
Former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian is on trial facing large-scale corruption charges he rejects as politically motivated.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have accused each other of violating the fragile cease-fire along their border.
The chief of Armenia's military police and another army general were dismissed on February 19, following a spate of noncombat deaths among soldiers.
Armenia is set to hold a referendum on constitutional changes in April, in an attempt by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to remove a majority of judges at the country’s Constitutional Court.
A former Armenian lawmaker who headed the country’s soccer governing body was released three hours after being taken into police custody on suspicion of illegally possessing and carrying firearms and ammunition.
Armenian police have detained a suspect after gunshots were fired inside a business center in the capital, Yerevan.
Armenia's parliament has approved the final reading of a law aimed at tackling the organized crime bosses known as "thieves-by-law" and other organized crime-related activities such as racketeering.
A former chief of Armenia's National Security Service (HAAT) who was found dead with a gunshot wound to his temple last week has been buried in Yerevan.
Georgi Kutoyan, the former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), has been found dead in a Yerevan apartment, officials say.
Armenian authorities have placed under custody a man over a Facebook post that claimed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump for assassinating Iran's top military commander.
The Armenian government has launched a major investigation into numerous adoptions that may have been the result of babies illegally taken from hospitals and orphanages.
Armenian authorities have brought corruption charges against Serzh Sarkisian, the former president who was toppled during last year's "Velvet Revolution."
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