The Armenian government approved on Thursday scholarships for medical students who will agree to work in understaffed public hospitals outside Yerevan after graduation.
Lawyers for Robert Kocharian said on Monday that they will appeal on Tuesday against a Yerevan district court’s decision to allow law-enforcement authorities to arrest the former Armenian president on coup charges which he denies as politically motivated.
A high-ranking officer who headed former President Serzh Sarkisian’s security detail for over two decades was released from pre-trial custody on Tuesday after posting a record-high bail of 1 billion drams ($2.1 million).
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s former chief bodyguard prosecuted on corruption charges remained in custody on Monday because of failing to post a 1 billion-dram ($2.1 million) bail set by Armenia’s Court of Appeals.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday ordered the release from pre-trial custody of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s former chief bodyguard prosecuted on corruption charges.
Law-enforcement authorities have moved to bring more criminal charges against a nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan who apparently fled Armenia late last month.
The mayor of an Armenian town has again been arrested on charges stemming from violent attacks on opposition supporters who protested against the country’s longtime leader, Serzh Sarkisian, in April.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency moved on Tuesday to arrest former Defense Minister Mikael Harutiunian on charges stemming from the deadly suppression in 2008 of anti-government protests in Yerevan sparked by a disputed presidential election.
A high-ranking officer who has long led former President Serzh Sarkisian’s security detail was remanded in custody on Thursday three days after being arrested on corruption charges.
A controversial former parliamentarian who has staunchly supported former President Serzh Sarkisian commended an Armenian law-enforcement agency on Friday after being briefly detained by it.
Two more members of the armed opposition group that stormed an Armenian police base in 2016 were set free on Thursday pending the outcome of their ongoing trial.
In a move requested by political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a court in Yerevan ordered on Wednesday the immediate release of a member of the armed opposition group that stormed an Armenian police base in 2016.
Three senior executives of a customs brokerage firm reportedly linked to the former head of Armenia’s tax and customs services have been arrested as part of a crackdown on corruption announced by the National Security Service (NSS).
Thousands of people again took to the streets of Yerevan on Sunday following the arrest of Nikol Pashinian and other organizers of daily protests against Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian.
At least 80 mostly young people were detained on Tuesday during continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian attended Armen Sarkissian’s inauguration on Monday, saying that the new Armenian president is more legitimate than his predecessor.
Three ethnic Armenian civilians working for the British demining group HALO Trust were killed and two others seriously wounded when a landmine exploded in Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday.
The editor of an independent Armenian media outlet and a man she accuses of making death threats against her were jointly questioned by law-enforcement officers for more than four hours on Thursday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed military claimed to have thwarted an Azerbaijani commando raid on its frontline positions early on Thursday, the first such incident reported by it in the last seven months.
One of the arrested members of an armed opposition group that seized a police station in Yerevan in 2016 ended a nearly month-long hunger strike after being taken to a prison hospital on Friday.
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