The Armenian government is considering creating a ministry of interior as part of a major structural reform of the national police service proposed by the Justice Ministry.
Ruben Hayrapetian, a wealthy businessman linked to Armenia’s former leadership, accused the authorities of harassing him for political reasons after being briefly detained by police in Yerevan on Tuesday.
The Armenian government on Friday suspended for two months visa free-travel between Armenia and China, citing the need to guard against a new coronavirus that has killed more than 200 people in China.
A man who burst into an office building in Yerevan and opened fire there last week was formally charged and remanded in pre-trial custody on Sunday.
Armenia’s has considerably improved its position in an annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world conducted by Transparency International.
A gunman surrendered to the Armenian police after reportedly bursting into an office building in Yerevan and opening fire there on Thursday.
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament rejected on Wednesday opposition demands for the creation of an ad hoc parliamentary commission that would investigate controversial donations accepted by Yerevan’s municipal administration.
Armenia’s parliament was poised on Tuesday to pass in the second and final reading a government bill that will make it easier for law-enforcement bodies to access bank account data.
Citing “safety reasons,” an Armenian airline cancelled a regular flight from Yerevan to Tehran that was scheduled for Sunday.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) pressed criminal charges on Wednesday against a man who admitted falsely claiming that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian hailed the U.S. air strike which killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Armenia will likely continue to increase rapidly in the coming years, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
The Amsterdam-based telecommunications company VEON which owns one of Armenia’s three mobile phone networks has asked authorities in Yerevan for permission to sell it to a rival Armenian firm, it emerged on Monday.
Law-enforcement authorities on Friday brought criminal charges against the chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasian, in what he denounced as a “political process” aimed at forcing him to resign.
Russia is planning to significantly strengthen its troops deployed in Armenia with new weapons, the Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Sergey Kopyrkin, said on Tuesday.
A government bill designed to tackle Armenia’s “criminal subculture” has stopped scores of Russian crime figures from migrating to the South Caucasus state, a senior Armenian official claimed on Friday.
Authorities in the Czech Republic have agreed to extradite to Armenia a fugitive nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian accused of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking, Armenian prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday again claimed to have eliminated “systemic corruption” in Armenia and ruled out any clemency for current government officials suspected of graft.
One day after an Armenian court allowed them to arrest former Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian, law-enforcement authorities shed some light on Thursday on their charges brought against him in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Law-enforcement authorities requested on Thursday an arrest warrant for Armenia’s former Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian three days after indicting him in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
A group of environmentalists have taken legal action against Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinian in response to his claims that some activists have ulterior motives in campaigning against a U.S.-backed gold mining project in Armenia.
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