Voters in Yerevan cast ballots on Sunday in snap local elections seen as the first major test of Armenia’s new government headed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian court on Monday set a bail of over $100,000 for a nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan to be released from remand prison.
Retired general Artur Aghabekian, who once served as Armenia’s deputy defense minister and currently advises the ethnic Armenian leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, denies charges of large-scale embezzlement from the fund where he has served as chairman of the board of trustees.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party and its two main allies will compete with each other in upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan, raising more questions about the future of their Yelk alliance.
The chief bodyguard of Gagik Tsarukian, an influential Armenian businessman and political figure, was released on bail on Tuesday more than one month after being arrested on assault charges.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s plans to set up “bodies of transitional justice” do not run counter to Armenia’s constitution or threaten judicial independence, Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian insisted on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) has searched the offices and private residence of former President Robert Kocharian as part of its ongoing inquiry into the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan, it emerged on Monday.
The leading member of the armed opposition group that stormed an Armenian police base in 2016 was set free on Friday pending the outcome of his ongoing trial.
The National Security Service (NSS) has accused about a dozen companies supplying weapons and other items to the Armenian military of large-scale fraud.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday scholarships for medical students who will agree to work in understaffed public hospitals outside Yerevan after graduation.
Lawyers for Robert Kocharian said on Monday that they will appeal on Tuesday against a Yerevan district court’s decision to allow law-enforcement authorities to arrest the former Armenian president on coup charges which he denies as politically motivated.
A high-ranking officer who headed former President Serzh Sarkisian’s security detail for over two decades was released from pre-trial custody on Tuesday after posting a record-high bail of 1 billion drams ($2.1 million).
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s former chief bodyguard prosecuted on corruption charges remained in custody on Monday because of failing to post a 1 billion-dram ($2.1 million) bail set by Armenia’s Court of Appeals.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday ordered the release from pre-trial custody of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s former chief bodyguard prosecuted on corruption charges.
Law-enforcement authorities have moved to bring more criminal charges against a nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan who apparently fled Armenia late last month.
The mayor of an Armenian town has again been arrested on charges stemming from violent attacks on opposition supporters who protested against the country’s longtime leader, Serzh Sarkisian, in April.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency moved on Tuesday to arrest former Defense Minister Mikael Harutiunian on charges stemming from the deadly suppression in 2008 of anti-government protests in Yerevan sparked by a disputed presidential election.
A high-ranking officer who has long led former President Serzh Sarkisian’s security detail was remanded in custody on Thursday three days after being arrested on corruption charges.
A controversial former parliamentarian who has staunchly supported former President Serzh Sarkisian commended an Armenian law-enforcement agency on Friday after being briefly detained by it.
Two more members of the armed opposition group that stormed an Armenian police base in 2016 were set free on Thursday pending the outcome of their ongoing trial.
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