The Armenian government and Yerevan’s municipal administration on Wednesday dismissed opposition criticism of their decision to spend more than 400 million drams ($840,000) on upcoming celebrations of the New Year in the capital.
Yerevan’s Mayor Hayk Marutian has strongly denied issuing construction permits or giving other favors to businesspeople who have donated garbage trucks and other equipment to the municipal administration.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday refused to suspend the trial of a senior government official who actively participated in Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution” and is now facing corruption charges.
Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists have visited each other’s countries for the first time in years as part of confidence-building measures agreed by their governments and facilitated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
A deputy chief of the Armenian police has been sacked for publicly objecting to a bill that would allow political appointees to run the law-enforcement agency.
In a weekend incident condemned by Armenia’s leading political forces, angry government supporters attacked the offices of an online publication highly critical of the Armenian authorities.
Two supporters of Robert Kocharian were arrested at the weekend on charges of harassing a judge presiding over the trial of Armenia’s jailed former president.
The governor of Armenia’s southeastern Vayots Dzor province, Trdat Sargsian, announced his resignation early on Tuesday amid an investigation into his possible involvement in a violent dispute that left one man critically injured.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Monday that it is investigating a provincial governor’s possible involvement in a violent dispute that left one man critically injured.
Kim Kardashian, the world-famous U.S. reality TV star of Armenian descent, will participate in the upcoming World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Yerevan, organizers of the global forum announced on Tuesday.
A British-American mining company has accused a Lebanese-based consultancy of misleading the Armenian government about the environmental risks of its project to develop the Amulsar gold deposit in southeastern Armenia.
Vagharshak Harutiunian, a former Armenian defense minister, has been reinstated to the rank of lieutenant-general which had been controversially revoked by former President Robert Kocharian.
Armenian media freedom groups expressed concern on Thursday about a government bill that would make it a crime to publicly call for or justify violence in the country.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders have discussed with a senior official from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe the fate of an Armenian soldier who was taken prisoner by Azerbaijani forces last week.
A court in Yerevan on Tuesday again refused to release Manvel Grigorian, a retired Armenian army general facing a string of criminal charges, from prison on bail.
Armenia’s Justice Ministry has drafted a bill that would make it a crime to publicly call for or justify violence in the country.
A lower court in Yerevan on Monday launched a retrial of the case of oppositionist Mushegh Saghatelian who was convicted after a 2008 post-election unrest and sentenced to five years in prison and now seeks acquittal.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has pressed criminal charges against 13 men arrested after last week’s violent clashes between riot police and people protesting against a government ban on unauthorized logging in the northern Tavush province.
The chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasian, said on Thursday that he will not resign despite having his legitimacy challenged by the court’s newest judge and the ruling My Step alliance.
Armenian servicemen have demined nearly 35,000 square meters of land in Syria since being deployed there in February, a senior official in Yerevan said on Monday.
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