Amid continuing angry protests against the sacking of the acclaimed Armenian-American director of Armenia’s national opera theater, the government pledged to at least delay the appointment of his successor on Monday.
A court in Yerevan on Friday extended by two months the pretrial detention of Robert Kocharian, a lawyer for the former Armenian president said after the court session.
Employees of pawnshops and exchange offices on Thursday threatened to block the central streets of Yerevan if the government representatives did not listen to their demands.
Armenia’s current government has made “serious progress” in combatting corruption in the country but should not “rest on its laurels,” a senior European Union diplomat said on Tuesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian again defended his actions in the wake of a disputed 2008 presidential election as he personally challenged his pretrial detention in Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to grant bail to former Armenian President Robert Kocharian and allowed law-enforcement to hold him in pretrial detention for two more months.
A district court judge in Yerevan on Thursday accepted prosecutors’ demand to stop considering granting bail to Robert Kocharian, a former Armenian president prosecuted on coup charges.
Lawyers for former President Robert Kocharian have asked Armenia’s Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional a legal provision which they believe paved the way for his renewed arrest in December.
Former President Robert Kocharian was again taken into custody on Friday after an Armenian court allowed his pre-trial arrest on charges stemming from the deadly break-up of 2008 post-election protests in Yerevan.
Armenia’s courts must allow law-enforcement authorities to again arrest former President Robert Kocharian in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian insisted on Wednesday.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) officially launched on Tuesday its observation mission for snap parliamentary elections that will be held in Armenia next month.
An Armenian court on Monday rejected investigators’ request for an arrest to be applied against Ara Minasian, a former director of one of Yerevan’s leading hospitals accused of fraud and forgery.
The European Union hopes that upcoming general elections in Armenia will be democratic and plans to allocate over $3 million for that purpose, senior EU diplomats said on Thursday.
Former President Robert Kocharian was released from custody on Monday immediately after Armenia’s Court of Appeals ruled that he cannot be prosecuted for the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Armenian human rights activists have called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to help ensure the release of a well-known political activist who was jailed for organizing a violent anti-government demonstration in Yerevan in 2013.
Armenia’s Transport Minister Ashot Hakobian on Monday rushed to Georgia’s sole border crossing with Russia where hundreds of Armenian cars and commercial trucks were stranded due to a severe bottleneck.
Armenia’s leading political groups have not yet nominated candidates for the vacant post of Yerevan’s mayor ahead of fresh municipal elections expected soon.
More than 200 Armenian employees of a U.S.-based mining company demonstrated in Yerevan on Monday against the blockage of a massive gold deposit in southeastern Armenia which continued for a tenth consecutive day.
A veteran Armenian politician accused of plotting to seize power together with members of a clandestine militant group was released from custody on Monday pending the outcome of their ongoing trial.
The Yerevan State University (YSU) administration accused Armenia’s new government of exerting “political pressure” on its rector, Aram Simonian, on Tuesday after he was confronted by angry students demanding his resignation.
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