Armenia’s jailed former President Robert Kocharian has again filed a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, it emerged on Tuesday.
Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian will go on trial next Tuesday on corruption charges which he rejects as politically motivated.
More than 60 lawyers critical of the Armenian government have joined forces to campaign for a “no” vote in the upcoming referendum on a controversial government proposal to oust most members of the country’s Constitutional Court.
One week after announcing his entry into politics, Artur Vanetsian, the former chief of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), has filed a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper controlled by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s family.
Vahagn Vermishian, the arrested head of the Armenian government’s Urban Development Committee, denies bribery charges leveled against him, his lawyer said on Monday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to extend the pre-trial detention of former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian who is accused abuse of power and misuse of public funds.
Armenia’s ruling bloc forced a member of Yerevan’s municipal assembly to resign on Monday after he seemingly urged fellow government supporters to attack Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian’s daughter on social media.
Investigators searched the Yerevan apartment of Hrayr Tovmasian, the chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, on Friday one month after indicting him on charges which he rejects as politically motivated.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Thursday declared illegal a lower court’s decision to give a law-enforcement agency access to the recordings of phone calls of a newspaper editor facing criminal proceedings.
A gunshot was fired on Tuesday evening at the window of the office of a district court judge in Yerevan.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused to order the release from custody of the owner of a TV station critical of the government and sympathetic to the jailed former President Robert Kocharian.
Georgi Kutoyan, who headed Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) in the final years of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule, was found shot to death in Yerevan on Friday.
Prosecutors agreed on Wednesday to the release from prison of Manvel Grigorian, a retired Armenian army general facing a string of criminal charges, following a reportedly serious deterioration of his health condition.
The number of road traffic accidents in Armenia continued to grow rapidly in 2019, resulting in at least 335 deaths, police data shows.
The opposition Bright Armenia Party (LHK) said on Monday that it will not recall after all the sole member of the Yerevan city council affiliated with it due to disagreements with an opposition ally.
A fugitive nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian accused of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking was arrested in Armenia immediately after being extradited from Czech Republic on Saturday.
Armenia announced at the weekend that it has acquired new and sophisticated air defense systems from Russia.
Prime Nikol Pashinian heaped praise on Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Thursday, saying that it has successfully accomplished its mission since last year’s “Velvet Revolution” that brought him to power.
Unknown intruders broke into the empty offices of an Armenian newspaper and caused havoc there on early on Thursday in what its editor denounced as an attempt to bully her and her staff.
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) has again asked a court in Yerevan to allow it to arrest a former senior SIS official who led a criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
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