A state anti-corruption body has launched an inquiry into a possible conflict of interest stemming from the alleged ownership by Gagik Khachatrian, the controversial head of Armenia’s tax and customs services, of lucrative businesses.
Armenian civil rights activists have expressed serious concern over the appointment of a police official who has for years faced allegations of brutal torture as the new chief of Yerevan’s police department.
An Armenian-American observer who claims to have witnessed serious fraud in Armenia’s recent presidential election on Tuesday accused law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan of blackmailing her with intimate photographs that were taken secretly.
Armenia’s presidential election can already be considered free and fair, the authorities in Yerevan declared on Monday evening amid fraud allegations made by at least one of the opposition candidates. (UPDATED)
Military prosecutors reported on Thursday another sharp decrease in the number of Armenian soldiers dying in non-combat circumstances, attributing it to a crackdown on army abuses.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) extended on Tuesday its deadline for the nomination of presidential candidates to give them more time to raise 8 million drams ($20,000) required for their inclusion on the ballot.
More than 20,000 ethnic Armenians from Georgia have become citizens of Armenia in the last three years despite a Georgian legal ban on dual citizenship, immigration authorities in Yerevan said on Thursday.
A notorious parliament deputy affiliated with President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has become embroiled in another scandal after threatening to beat up a journalist who asked him for comment.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have launched a probe in response to recent media reports claiming that the country’s top soccer functionary has assaulted an employee.
Armenia and Iran on Thursday officially began the repeatedly postponed construction of a major hydroelectric plant on the Arax river marking their border, a $330 million project highlighting a close relationship between the two nations.
Six men working for one of Armenia’s wealthiest entrepreneurs went on trial on Thursday, accused of beating to death a military doctor at a Yerevan restaurant in an incident that shocked the nation.
Raffi Hovannisian, the leader of the opposition Zharangutyun (Heritage) party, on Tuesday rejected as illegitimate the official results of Armenia’s parliamentary elections, saying that they deepened “a nationwide abyss.”
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Monday pledged investigate allegations that a senior prosecutor beat up a man in a bitter street dispute in Yerevan.
Aram Sarkisian, a prominent opposition politician, on Friday renounced his seat in the newly elected parliament and confirmed that his Hanrapetutyun (Republic) party could leave the Armenian National Congress (HAK) because of disagreements with the opposition bloc’s leadership.
The three main challengers of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) accused the Armenian authorities of resorting to a “large-scale machination” and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the parliamentary elections just hours after the opening of the polls on Sunday. (UPDATED)
Voting began on Sunday in Armenia’s parliamentary elections that pose the most serious test yet of President Serzh Sarkisian’s four-year rule and his administration’s declared commitment to democratic reform. (UPDATED)
More than two thousand dead persons have been identified and removed from Armenia’s electoral rolls so far in their continuing revision by the police, a senior official said on Friday.
Eight political parties and one alliance have been formally registered to contest Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections under the system of proportional representation.
The number of eligible voters officially registered in Armenia has increased by nearly seven percent since the last national election four years ago, according to the voter lists updated ahead of the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Hovannes Tamamian, a controversial Armenian police general arrested last year, was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday on charges of covering up a murder and a failed murder attempt.
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