The main trial of a Russian soldier accused of murdering an Armenian family of seven resumed in Gyumri on Monday amid more protests from relatives of the victims.
Relatives of seven Armenians murdered in Gyumri last year on Tuesday threatened to boycott the trial of a Russian soldier who has confessed to the massacre if it continues inside the Russian military base in Armenia.
An Armenian court began on Friday the main trial of a Russian soldier who has confessed to last January’s gruesome killings of the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri.
Most voters in Gyumri have rejected President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional amendments despite his last-minute promise to provide large-scale economic assistance to Armenia’s second largest city plagued by poverty and unemployment.
A coalition of opposition and civic groups launched its nationwide campaign against President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes on Friday with a rally in Gyumri attended by several hundred people.
Underscoring Armenia’s warm relationship with the Vatican, President Serzh Sarkisian attended on Thursday the inauguration of a newly constructed Catholic church in Gyumri which was led by a visiting Vatican cardinal.
A Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday in the first, Russian trial stemming from the gruesome crime.
Human rights activists and some ordinary citizens in Armenia are questioning the priority of a Russian-jurisdiction trial of a soldier accused of murdering the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri.
The trial of a Russian soldier accused of murdering the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri in January will start in the northwestern Armenian city on August 12, a spokesman for the 5th garrison military court of the Russian Federation confirmed on Thursday.
Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has downplayed the impact of the falling tax revenues from large businesses in the first half of the year on the prospect of achieving overall economic growth in 2015.
The Armenian government will use the money received through the sale of one of the country’s largest electric power generating facilities to subsidize the rise in electricity prices, it emerged over the weekend.
Hundreds of people attended a church service in Gyumri on Monday to pay their respects to Kirk Kerkorian, the Armenian-American billionaire who has built thousands of homes in Armenia’s second largest city ravaged by a 1988 earthquake.
A Russian soldier serving at Russia’s military base in Armenia was arrested on Monday on suspicion of killing a fellow serviceman.
A senior Russian official has reaffirmed President Vladimir Putin’s decision to participate in the April 24 official ceremonies in Yerevan that will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
A Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri will be tried in Armenia but by a Russian military court, a senior Russian pro-government lawmaker insisted on Sunday.
An activist of the Armenian opposition movement Founding Parliament was stabbed at the weekend as government loyalists attempted to disrupt a rally held by it in Gyumri.
Law-enforcement authorities in Gyumri are looking into a weekend gunfight in a central city place that left at least six people wounded.
Activists of a radical opposition movement seeking regime change in Armenia cancelled their planned “automobile march” and rally in the country’s second largest city on Saturday as they claimed to possess information about authorities’ planning provocations against them.
Russia has officially reaffirmed its refusal to extradite to Armenia a Russian soldier accused of murdering the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri earlier this year.
Hundreds of angry taxi drivers blocked the main squares of Yerevan and Gyumri with their cars on Monday in protest against new taxation rules introduced by the Armenian government.
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