A state-backed association representing Armenia’s judges on Wednesday strongly condemned the human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, for alleging widespread corruption among them.
Corruption within Armenia’s judicial system remains widespread, with judges often accepting bribes to hand down rulings, according to the country’s human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian.
Iran stands ready to significantly increase the presently modest volume of its natural gas supplies to neighboring Armenia, the Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, Mohammad Reisi, said on Tuesday.
Citing the need to get rid of “the tumbledown shacks distorting the appearance of Yerevan” the Armenian government on Thursday assigned additional areas in the city center to private redevelopers for construction needs.
Armenia suffered its apparently worst power outage in nearly two decades at the weekend as a result of what the authorities in Yerevan called a brief disruption in electricity supplies from neighboring Iran.
Armenia’s Sport and Youth Affairs Minister Yuri Vartanian faced opposition calls to step down on Wednesday in connection with the recent arrest of his son on drug trafficking charges.
Human rights groups strongly criticized the Armenian authorities on Wednesday for ensuring that two police officers convicted of torture avoid imprisonment in accordance with a general amnesty.
A retired Armenian army colonel who was arrested late last month after organizing street protests by fellow veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh has rejected as baseless and politically motivated fraud charges leveled against him.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) insisted on Friday that it will remain in opposition to the government even after the widely anticipated appointment of one of its leaders to a senior diplomatic post.
The United States welcomes Armenia’s plans to sign a far-reaching Association Agreement with the European Union, John Heffern, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, said on Monday.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians remaining in Syria braced themselves for a further escalation of the bloody conflict in their country on Wednesday amid growing talk of U.S.-led military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The controversial construction of an apartment building in a Yerevan neighborhood appeared to be suspended on Monday following renewed clashes between riot police and angry local residents backed by dozens of civic activists.
The Armenian government has attracted only 240 million drams ($600,000) in private donations to thousands of farmers whose crops were destroyed by a severe hailstorm in May, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s largest supermarket chain on Friday accused its competitors, among them a government-linked tycoon, of foul play that led to bankruptcy proceedings launched against it by a court in Yerevan late last month.
Top representatives of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) and leading Armenian opposition groups expressed concern on Tuesday about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Azerbaijan that may have further improved Russia’s relations with Armenia’s arch-foe.
Hundreds of ethnic Armenian refugees from Syria have signed up for buying new and low-cost housing in a special residential district which is due to be constructed for them near Yerevan in the coming years.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday controversial guilty verdicts stemming from the 2010 death of a soldier which heightened public awareness of violent crimes committed in the Armenian army.
Armenia’s leading civic groups supporting European integration on Monday urged the government to publicize more information about its forthcoming Association Agreement with the European Union and stop “imitating” democratic reforms required for its implementation.
A former provincial government official has been arrested on embezzlement charges which some observers see as a government move against Armenia’s embattled parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian.
Tensions in a big village near Yerevan are running high more than two months after the killing of its longtime mayor who was affiliated with the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun).
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