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Armenia * Russian–Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan has been placed under two months of pre-trial detention. On Wednesday, Karapetyan was charged with ‘public calls for the usurpation of power [...]’. Before that, his home in Yerevan was raided following his statements in defence of the Armenian Apostolic Church amidst ongoing tensions between it and the government, saying that ‘if the politicians fail, then we will participate in our own way in all of this’. * Armenian Foreign Minister
Armenia * Karapetyan’s house in Yerevan was searched on Tuesday evening for several hours and he was escorted out of his house in the night by law enforcement officers. The searches followed his pro-church statement in an interview with News.am, Karapetyan said that ‘if the politicians fail, then we will participate in our own way in all of this’. * Armenian–Russian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan has been charged with public calls to seize power, according to his lawyer Armen Feroyan. Feroyan
Regional * The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), one of the largest and most influential Armenian–American lobbying groups, has raised alarms regarding ‘the prospect that Azerbaijan will use the Israel–Iran conflict as cover for renewed aggression against Armenia’. They called upon the US government to ‘take immediate action to de-escalate’ the situation, as well as to ‘draw a clear red line against any attempt by Azerbaijan, Turkey, or any other country to further destabilise the
Regional * The Armenian Prime Minister said that they ‘must try’ to sign the peace treaty with Azerbaijan and dissolve those OSCE Minsk Group bodies at the same time ‘by the end of the year’. Armenia * The Nuclear and Radiation Safety Scientific-Technical Centre has reported no changes ‘in the natural radioactive background’ on the border with Iran. The centre dispatched its experts to the Syunik province bordering Iran to measure radiation levels after the Israeli strikes hit Iranian nucl
