Nagorno-Karabakh’s current and former leaders called on Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Tuesday to release former President Robert Kocharian from custody pending the outcome of his upcoming trial.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has told a member of a small political party to retract his allegations that the NSS director, Artur Vanetsian, is engaged in illegal entrepreneurial activity.
Former Armenian authorities violated citizens’ freedom of assembly when they broke up post-elections demonstrations in 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Thursday in a ruling on an appeal lodged by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
The Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of a controversial bill which led Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to stage an angry demonstration outside Armenia’s parliament and allege a “counterrevolutionary” conspiracy against his government in October.
Law-enforcement officers searched on Thursday the Yerevan house of Mihran Poghosian, a former senior Armenian official prosecuted on corruption charges.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian rejected on Monday human rights activists’ and opposition leaders’ criticism of his angry behavior and sacking orders issued during a visit to a customs facility in Yerevan.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday a lower court’s decision to allow law-enforcement authorities to keep holding former President Robert Kocharian in detention pending investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Wednesday that the arrest of a social media user highly critical of the government must not be viewed as a crackdown on dissent.
The Yerkrapah Union, a once powerful organization uniting thousands of Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, has elected a close associate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as its new leader.
Leaders of the opposition minority in Armenia’s parliament questioned on Friday a crackdown on false news reports and social media comments ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Ignoring strong objections from its finance minister, the Armenian government nearly tripled on Thursday the total amount of bonuses which will be paid to tax and customs officials this year.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian gave evidence on Wednesday at the trial of a man accused of assaulting his supporters two years ago.
The deputy chairman of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party dismissed on Tuesday media claims about growing tensions and disagreements within its ranks.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have so far been unable to track down and arrest a fugitive brother of former President Serzh Sarkisian facing corruption charges, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian claimed on Friday.
Representatives of the two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament on Thursday renewed their criticism of the government’s economic record and policies strongly defended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In another attempt to limit Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s sweeping powers, a major opposition party put forward on Wednesday a bill that would turn Armenia’s police and National Security Service (NSS) into government ministries accountable to the parliament.
Education Minister Arayik Harutiunian on Thursday called for the resignation of the long-serving rector of Armenia’s largest university who is facing corruption allegations denied by him as politically motivated.
An Armenian mining enterprise replaced the national gas distribution network last year as the country’s largest corporate taxpayer, a senior government official revealed on Wednesday.
Armenian consumers will not pay more this year for natural gas mostly imported from Russia despite a recent 10 percent increase in its wholesale price for Armenia, Energy Minister Garegin Baghramian said on Friday.
The National Assembly began debating on Tuesday the Armenian government’s five-year program which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again portrayed as a policy framework for an “economic revolution” in the country.
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