
Armenia adopts law banning election monitors who ‘fail to maintain political neutrality’
The draft law was passed five months ahead of the Parliamentary elections.

The draft law was passed five months ahead of the Parliamentary elections.

The declaration included a plan to create a route connecting Azerbaijan and its exclave Nakhchivan, through Armenian territory.

This allows the Prosecutor General to press charges against all three MPs.

The two accused have previously held ministerial positions.

Pashinyan, in turn, suggested that if they went by media reports, 70% of the opposition would end up in prison.

The former Armenian president also suggested that Armenia is moving away from Russia at a time when the country is gaining strength.

Four Armenian opposition MPs have filed a lawsuit against the government, accusing them of gatekeeping the draft of the peace treaty with Azerbaijan. On Monday, Christine Vardanyan, an MP from the opposition Armenia Alliance faction, announced that she and three other members of the faction — Anna Grigoryan, Geghan Manukyan, and Artur Khachatryan — had filed the lawsuit. They demanded that a letter written by Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in March 2024 prohibiting the opposition from rev