Armenia’s human rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, has met with Robert Kocharian at a prison in Yerevan where the former president is held on corruption and coup charges strongly denied by him.
A senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance claimed on Wednesday that it remains more popular than suggested by a U.S.-funded opinion poll conducted in Armenia in May.
The Armenian police have detained and questioned in recent weeks dozens of men described by them as major crime figures.
A prominent associate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted the governor of Armenia’s central Kotayk province on Monday, blaming him for the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a recent local election.
The two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament said on Wednesday that they see no political reasons for the latest arrest of former President Robert Kocharian.
Lilit Makunts, the parliamentary leader of the ruling My Step alliance, on Monday gave some details of a mandatory “vetting” of all judges planned by the Armenian authorities.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian has ignored a second summons from law-enforcement officials investigating an arson attack reported ahead of a mayoral election in the town of Abovian.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian indicated on Tuesday that he will ignore a second summons from law-enforcement officials investigating an arson attack reported ahead of a recent local election won by a BHK-backed candidate.
Russia’s ambassador to Armenia was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan last week after meeting with the indicted former President Robert Kocharian, a senior Armenian lawmaker revealed on Monday.
President Armen Sarkissian’s latest nominee to the Constitutional Court said on Thursday that his warm relations with members of Armenia’s new ruling elite would not influence his judicial activities.
The head of Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) insisted on Monday that the law-enforcement body had sufficient evidence to arrest and indict a former deputy commander of Armenian interior troops over the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Senior opposition lawmakers in Yerevan on Friday called on Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders to defuse their increasingly visible tensions through dialogue.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday accused Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leaders of spreading false claims about significant territorial concessions to Azerbaijan planned by his government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian commended Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) on Wednesday after it arrested a senior police officer suspected of killing a protester during the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s National Assembly has set up an ad hoc parliamentary commission tasked with investigating the April 2016 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gagik Tsarukian on Monday warned parliament deputies from his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) against publicly expressing their personal opinions after one of them voiced support for the indicted former President Robert Kocharian.
Two men have been arrested in Armenia on suspicion of opening fire on supporters of Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former military leader.
Samvel Babayan, a retired general seeking to run for president of Nagorno-Karabakh, has effectively accused a key political rival of organizing an armed attack on his supporters in Armenia.
The doctoral dissertation of an Armenian judge, who freed former President Robert Kocharian from custody last August, may have come under scrutiny for political reasons, a senior government official said on Monday.
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