Armenian law-enforcement authorities have refused to prosecute a local government official who has said that refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh participating in opposition rallies in Yerevan must be denied government aid.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has appointed Armenia’s former human rights ombudswoman, Kristine Grigorian, as the first head of a foreign intelligence agency formally set up by his government about a year ago.
Several members of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party and other loyalists of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have said that refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh participating in opposition rallies in Yerevan must be denied government aid.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pledged to help residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fleeing to Armenia search for their relatives who went missing after Azerbaijan’s September 19 military offensive.
The National Security Service (NSS) has arrested eight men on charges of plotting to overthrow Armenia’s government.
More than a thousand residents of Nagorno-Karabakh were evacuated to Armenia on Sunday five days after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive in the Armenian-populated region.
Angry protesters clashed with riot police outside the main government building in Yerevan for the second consecutive night on Wednesday as they continued to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Riot police clashed late on Tuesday with angry protesters who gathered outside the main government building in Yerevan to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation following Azerbaijan’s large-scale military attack on Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to ship two truckloads of humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh through the Lachin corridor and Azerbaijani-controlled territory on Monday after Karabakh’s leadership agreed to the simultaneous functioning of the two routes.
Campaigning for municipal elections in Yerevan officially ended on Friday with more reports of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party forcing public sector workers to attend its mayoral candidate’s meetings.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract is facing more allegations of electoral foul play after scores of schoolteachers and other public sector employees were spotted attending its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian’s campaign rallies in Yerevan.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has been cleared of any wrongdoing following a more than yearlong investigation into the legality of his private trips to Germany taken during his rule, it emerged on Thursday.
A high-ranking Armenian cleric has been charged with fraud and money laundering 18 months after being cleared of the same accusations brought in 2020.
Three more men have accused the head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, of torturing them during an ongoing criminal investigation into a controversial video blogger based in the United States, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
A former diplomat and his son running Armenia’s leading classical music orchestra were arrested at the weekend on fraud charges denied by them.
An Armenian military officer has died in hospital almost four years after being badly injured in a violent incident that led to the resignation of a political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, has not been indicted in a criminal inquiry into allegations that he tortured and threatened to kill a man arrested in June.
An Armenian civic group has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party and local government officials affiliated with it of abusing their administrative resources to facilitate the party’s victory in forthcoming municipal elections in Yerevan.
Armenian judges on Wednesday criticized the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) for sacking their colleagues and accused it of trying to effectively rig the election of a new member of the state body overseeing the country’s courts.
Raising more questions about corruption in Armenia, an independent investigative publication has suggested that parliament speaker Alen Simonian may be involved in the ongoing construction of an expensive residential complex.
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