Students of a secondary school in Yerevan have expressed solidarity with one of their teachers who claims to have been forced to quit his job after refusing to promote President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes.
A notoriously violent son of a regional government has been appointed to a senior position in Armenia’s state forestry agency less than two months after being released from custody and avoiding prosecution for a high-profile crime.
Armenian security forces arrested 10 people and claimed to have found a big weapons cache on Wednesday during a dawn raid on a Yerevan house which they said averted a series of “particularly grave crimes.”
At least eight Armenians were killed and 42 others injured early on Tuesday when a Yerevan-bound bus carrying them drove off a highway in Russia’s Tula region just south of Moscow. (UPDATED)
In an unprecedented move in Armenian judicial practice a local court on Thursday invoked a legal provision for terminally ill inmates to grant medical parole to a prisoner serving a life sentence.
Opposition groups in Armenia have voiced suspicions over an unexpected dismissal of a senior official in charge of voter lists just weeks before a constitutional referendum.
Family members and relatives of dozens of inmates of a Yerevan prison serving life sentences gathered in front of the main government offices in the Armenian capital on Thursday to show their support for the hunger strike initiated by the convicts with the demand that their cases be reviewed.
More than four dozen inmates of a Yerevan prison serving life sentences have been on an open-ended hunger strike since Monday, demanding that their cases be reviewed.
Education Minister Armen Ashotian insisted on Tuesday that he does not lack trust in Armenia’s public education system managed by him despite sending his children to an expensive private school.
The wife of the late Karen Demirchian spoke out on Tuesday against the planned opening of a casino at Yerevan’s main sports and concert arena bearing the name of Armenia’s longtime Soviet-era leader.
The second death of a young woman in childbirth within just two weeks has raised more questions in Armenia about the state of local obstetrics and perinatal medicine. But the country’s health minister says one should not jump to conclusions.
The Armenian police on Monday threatened to dismantle a barricade built by protesters on a central Yerevan avenue after again refraining from using force to end their nonstop demonstration against controversial electricity price rises.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian assured hundreds of employees of Armenia’s largest chemical plant on Tuesday that they will finally receive their back wages next month.
In what appears to be another consolation prize granted to him by the Armenian government, businessman Gagik Tsarukian is likely to retain de facto control over a town near Yerevan that has long been his political and economic stronghold.
Kim Kardashian, the world-famous U.S. reality TV star of Armenian descent, began on Wednesday a first-ever visit to Armenia that will put her ancestral homeland under an international spotlight.
Two years after a village mayor affiliated with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) was shot dead in broad daylight, law-enforcement authorities have not identified those responsible for what his relatives and friends consider a politically motivated crime.
A demobilized Armenian soldier who was gravely wounded in action three years ago risks remaining paralyzed for the rest of his life after the Armenian military has refused to finance his further expensive treatment abroad.
Unknown gunmen shot and killed three men with alleged ties to the criminal underworld outside Armenia’s largest prison on Wednesday.
Hundreds of self-employed Armenians continued to demonstrate in Yerevan on Thursday against new taxation rules which they believe would ruin their small businesses.
Hundreds of small-scale traders resumed their demonstrations in Yerevan on Monday, demanding that the government again delay the enforcement of new taxation rules which they believe spell trouble for their businesses.
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