A gunman arrested by the Armenian police wanted to meet with former President Robert Kocharian’s elder son Sedrak when he opened fire and took a hostage at an office building in Yerevan last week, a lawyer said on Thursday.
At least three activists highly critical of Armenia’s current leadership were briefly detained in Yerevan on Tuesday in what they denounced as a government attempt to intimidate them.
Georgi Kutoyan, a former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) who was found shot dead on Friday, most probably committed suicide, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian said over the weekend.
Armenia’s national gas distribution company owned by Russia’s Gazprom giant confirmed on Friday that it may ask public utility regulators to raise its retail prices set for households and corporate consumers.
The Armenian government on Monday reported a more than 16 percent rise in its tax revenues in 2019 and said it will increase them further this year.
The International Monetary Fund has given a positive assessment of the economic situation in Armenia while urging its government to speed up reforms which it believes are necessary for “more balanced and inclusive growth.”
The Budapest-based budget airline Wizz Air announced on Monday that it will launch two twice-weekly flights between Europe and Armenia in April.
The National Assembly voted on Tuesday to accept a government proposal to ban smoking in cafes, restaurants and all other indoor public places across Armenia starting March 2022.
A wealthy businessman prosecuted along with Serzh Sarkisian on Friday strongly denied corruption charges brought against the former Armenian president.
Armenia’s leadership has dismissed allegations by former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) that corruption charges leveled against him are politically motivated.
A deputy minister of education, culture and sport affiliated with Armenia’s ruling party was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of bribery.
The price of drinking of water in Armenia will not rise next year despite the government’s decision to stop subsidizing it, public utility regulators said on Wednesday.
RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) is the most preferred and trusted online media resource in Armenia, according to a new poll published by a leading local watchdog on Wednesday.
Culture officials in Armenia have been under fire over a government-funded play that sparked a controversy in the country after artists conducted its street rehearsal in Yerevan over the weekend.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian branded Armenia’s current leaders “irresponsible populists” and said he is not afraid of being by arrested by them in rare public remarks publicized late on Wednesday.
A senior government official who actively participated in Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution” went on trial Monday on corruption charges strongly denied by him.
The World Bank has downgraded Armenia’s position in its annual survey on the ease of doing business around the world despite reporting an improvement in the country’s investment climate.
Armenia’s jailed former President Robert Kocharian underwent surgery at a hospital in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Armenia’s largest food exporting company, Spayka, had failed to pay roughly 10 billion drams ($21 million) in taxes, the State Revenue Committee (SRC) claimed on Tuesday.
A law-enforcement agency has again summoned Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian for interrogation over an arson attack reported ahead of a June 9 local election.
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