A 73-year-old businesswoman affiliated with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has been arrested on suspicion of plotting the contract killing of a wealthy lawmaker who quit the country’s second largest parliamentary force recently.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry deplored on Thursday the reported destruction of yet another Armenian church in Syria beset by a bloody civil war.
Ethnic Armenians remaining in Aleppo are increasingly desperate to leave Syria’s largest city ravaged by continuing fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, according to some former members of their community now based in Armenia.
Some leaders of the beleaguered Armenian community in Syria on Thursday spoke out against a mass evacuation of its members remaining in the war-torn city of Aleppo where the security situation has deteriorated further in recent weeks.
Ethnic Armenians remaining Aleppo are calling on Armenia to help evacuate them from the war-ravaged Syrian city where deadly fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels intensified in recent days.
The European Union has allocated about $500,000 in economic assistance to ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia after the outbreak of the bloody conflict in the Middle Eastern state.
Armenian law-enforcement agencies and courts remain the principal source of serious human rights violations in the country, Ombudsman Karen Andreasian said in his annual report released over the weekend.
A lawyer representing relatives of the seven members of an Armenia family murdered in Gyumri alleged on Tuesday “very serious obstacles” in an ongoing criminal investigation into the massacre blamed on a Russian soldier.
A radical opposition group in Armenia has signaled its intention to seek public approval of its own amendments to the Constitution after rejecting the concept of a constitutional reform endorsed by President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenian law-enforcement agencies have brushed aside opposition claims that their recent actions targeting some political activists are part of a wider crackdown ordered by the government.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Thursday pressed charges against a young man who was briefly arrested last week for his role in a violent protest near the Russian consulate in Gyumri.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties have condemned authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh for forcibly preventing dozens of members of a smaller Armenian opposition group from entering the territory as part of its campaign for “regime change” in Yerevan.
The Armenian military suffered two more casualties and claimed to have killed at least three Azerbaijani soldiers early on Friday in what appears to be a further escalation of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and Armenia’s top army generals met on Thursday to discuss, among other things, skirmishes with Azerbaijani forces that appear to have intensified since the start of the new year.
A Yerevan-based charity founded by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has officially launched the construction of an apartment block for about 80 ethnic Armenian families from Syria that have taken refuge in Armenia.
Vazgen Khachikian, the arrested former head of Armenia’s state pension fund, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Saturday heaped praise on Karabakh Armenian commandos who have reportedly reached the crash site of the downed Armenian helicopter gunship near Nagorno-Karabakh after overcoming Azerbaijani obstruction.
The armed forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday vowed to retaliate strongly against Azerbaijan for shooting down an Armenian helicopter gunship on “the line of contact” east of Karabakh.
An odious Armenian general has been accused by human rights activists of violating the Geneva Conventions after he admitted he personally kept hostages during the Karabakh war.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) acknowledges that there are lots of problems in the country, but it does not think that a change of government can be a solution to them, according to a senior representative.
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