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Jan 9, 2025 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, arrived in the Armenian capital the previous night from Baku where met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The meeting took place the day after Aliyev renewed his threats to forcibly open a land corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave through Syunik, the only Armenian province bordering Iran. Official readouts of it did not mention the issue.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thecaliforniacourier.com | Gohar Grigoryan |Ruzanna Stepanian
The position became vacant in early December after its previous holder, Ambakum Grigorian, was effectively dismissed by the newly appointed Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian. Grigorian ran the service for less than a year. Speaking ahead of his removal, Galian, who is also 32, said she plans to surround herself with “professionals who share my and my political team’s approaches.” She also replaced virtually all deputy justice ministers and the head of an agency enforcing judicial acts.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
Pashinian claimed last month that all those plans considered by Armenia’s former governments were about “returning Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.” He said that his “big mistake” was not to make this clear to Armenians after coming to power in 2018.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
The position became vacant in early December after its previous holder, Ambakum Grigorian, was effectively dismissed by the newly appointed Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian. Grigorian ran the service for less than a year. Speaking ahead of his removal, Galian, who is also 32, said she plans to surround herself with “professionals who share my and my political team’s approaches.” She also replaced virtually all deputy justice ministers and the head of an agency enforcing judicial acts.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
The once thriving community has been in limbo since Syrian rebels launched late last month a military offensive that led to the ouster of the country’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Syrian Armenians still live in Aleppo. Even before capturing Damascus at the weekend, the rebels led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Islamist militant group assured them that it will protect and not discriminate against the Christian minority.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
Aliyev said on Thursday that Armenia should not only change its constitution but also ensure the return of Azerbaijanis who lived there until the late 1980s. Yerevan should start talks with the “community of Western Azerbaijan” for that purpose he said, referring to much of Armenian territory. The Armenian government did not react to the statement. Artur Hovannisian, the secretary of the ruling Civil Contract party’s parliamentary group, refused to comment on it during a news conference.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
This image contains sensitive content which some people may find offensive or disturbing. ImagesMultimediaEmbedded ContentCommentsLink has been copied to clipboard ԿիսվելPashinian Confirms Refusal To Host Eurasian Union SummitPrime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday confirmed that he refused to host an upcoming Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) summit and said Armenia will not unfreeze its membership in another Russian-led bloc: the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
Opposition leaders shrugged off the claim made in the Armenian parliament amid the lingering risk of another war with Azerbaijan. “Two years ago, I announced from this podium that if we manage to maintain our statehood for a year or two, it will mean that we have created and are creating a real opportunity to have a state in the coming century,” said Pashinian. “And now, two years later, I … must state that in the medium term, our strategic objective for the century has been achieved.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
The previous minister, Gnel Sanosian, was among six senior officials who were told by Pashinian to resign earlier this week. Sanosian was replaced by the 33-year-old Davit Khudatian, who has run the southern Armavir province since January. During a cabinet meeting in Yerevan, Khudatian admitted that a new kindergarten built in an Armavir village did not open its doors as planned in October despite his promise given during Pashinian’s visit to the region earlier this year.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
azatutyun.am | Ruzanna Stepanian
The new interior minister, Arpine Sargsian, served as deputy minister until now, while Davit Khudatian, who will take up the other ministerial post, was the government of the Armavir province. Pashinian has yet to replace the four other officials who headed two law-enforcement agencies, the national tax and customs service and a powerful body overseeing Armenian courts.
