A controversial former head of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s security detail has reportedly assaulted one of his subordinates in yet another violent incident decried by the Armenian opposition and media.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the son of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician, in connection with a shooting incident reported three weeks ago.
The Armenian government has effectively further delayed the introduction of a mandatory national health insurance system by designating no funding for it in next year’s state budget, it emerged on Monday.
An Armenian prosecutor has refused to indict two high-ranking security officers in connection with the April 2022 death of a pregnant woman caused by a police car leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade.
Armenia’s national electric utility insisted on Wednesday that it is not responsible for the majority of power cuts that have become more frequent in the country of late.
The father of a pregnant woman who died in April 2022 after being hit by a police car escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade accused authorities on Friday of dragging out the trial of the car’s driver.
A fifth person jailed in connection with a deadly 1999 attack on the Armenian parliament, which plunged the country into a serious political crisis, has died in prison.
Armenia’s multimillion-dollar exports of brandy to Russia are continuing unabated following a Russian consumer rights group’s calls for serious restrictions on its sales, Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan said on Thursday.
The Armenian Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday the first-ever outbreak of West Nile fever in the country, saying that it has killed one person and left four others in a serious condition.
A higher court on Friday granted prosecutors’ request to revoke house arrest for Aram Azatian, the prefect of Yerevan’s northern Arabkir district, and place him in custody.
Home-bound Armenian drivers have complained about long queues of vehicles at the entrance from Russia to Georgia that officials in Yerevan describe as a “technical issue.”
The mayor of Yerevan’s northern Arabkir district was moved to house arrest on Thursday one day after being detained along with his two deputies and several other people on corruption charges.
Law-enforcement authorities arrested the head of Yerevan’s northern Arabkir district and several other local government officials when they raided the district administration building on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has again delayed the gradual introduction of a national system of health insurance which was due to start in July.
The government appealed to Armenians on Tuesday to help it clean up the country’s northern regions hit by devastating floods.
The executive director of an Armenian state hospital was sacked on Wednesday days after signaling support for ongoing antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
A group of citizens laid flowers and lit candles on Friday on a street in Yerevan where a pregnant woman died after being hit by a police car escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade two years ago.
Distraught parents in Yerevan rushed to schools on Friday mid-morning to pick up their children early after a killing spree threat quickly spread online to be later dismissed by authorities as a hoax.
Two men were wounded and another arrested during an apparent armed attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by them on Sunday.
Yerevan’s municipal assembly approved on Tuesday a significant increase in public transport fees initiated by Mayor Tigran Avinian and strongly condemned by its opposition members.
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