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Armenia * Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan received a US delegation to discuss the Trump Route (TRIPP). According to the Armenian readout, the sides ‘discussed and agreed on a number of operational and legal issues related to the implementation of TRIPP’. * Armenian authorities have arrested an unclarified number of Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan’s affiliates over electoral bribery offering material incentives for people to attend his alliance’s rally. Azerbaijan * Azerbaij
Regional * Armenia’s Catholicos Karekin II has congratulated the newly elected Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Shio III. Armenia * Responding to recent comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin suggesting Armenia should choose between closer ties with the EU and its current membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that ‘until this moment, when there is no need to make a choice [...] we are not placing such an issue on the agenda’
Armenia * Armenia’s pre-election campaign began on 8 May. The ruling Civil Contract party began its campaign in the Syunik region. The head of the Armenia Alliance faction, former President Robert Kocharyan, claimed that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government had jeopardised Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Larapetyan’s nephew, Narek Karapetyan, suggested in a Strong Armenia Alliance rally that they would replace Pashinyan’s last c
Armenia * Today, pre-election campaigning kicked off in Armenia for the 7 June parliamentary elections. * Yesterday, Russia summoned Armenia’s Ambassador Gurgen Arsenyan, claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi had ‘voice[d] terrorist threats against Russia’ during his speech at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan earlier this week. * Armenian authorities have arrested an undisclosed number of people over allegations of vote buying and attempts to obstruct the free vo
