One day after being relieved of his duties as director of the National Security Service (NSS), Artur Vanetsian on Tuesday strongly denied collaborating with Armenia’s former leaders and warned them against exploiting his dramatic falling out with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that he will not break laws to prevent a British-American company, Lydian International, from mining gold at the Amulsar deposit in southeastern Armenia.
The leader of Sasna Tsrer, an Armenian party whose members stormed a police station in Yerevan in 2016, on Friday warned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian against giving the green light to a large-scale mining project opposed by environmentalists.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a legal provision that has been used by law-enforcement authorities for arresting and prosecuting former President Robert Kocharian.
A British-American mining company has accused a Lebanese-based consultancy of misleading the Armenian government about the environmental risks of its project to develop the Amulsar gold deposit in southeastern Armenia.
Lawyers for former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian on Wednesday appealed against a law-enforcement agency’s decision to arrest him on suspicion of corruption.
Justice Minister Rustam Badasian said on Monday that Armenia’s government is unlikely to seek parliamentary ratification before the end of this year of a European treaty strongly opposed by the Armenian Apostolic Church and other groups championing traditional family values.
The Armenian government will pay an elderly resident of Yerevan 1.6 million euros ($1.8 million) worth of compensation ordered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a senior official said on Friday.
A Yerevan judge presiding over the suspended trial of former President Robert Kocharian refused on Thursday to clarify why his office was searched and sealed by law-enforcement authorities earlier this week.
Police in Armenia made 13 arrests early on Thursday after clashing overnight with residents of the northern Tavush province who protested against a government ban on logging in the area.
Law-enforcement officers have raided and sealed the office of a district court judge in Yerevan who ordered former President Robert Kocharian’s release from prison two months ago, it emerged on Wednesday.
A senior opposition parliamentarian voiced on Wednesday serious misgivings about a government plan to form a new anti-corruption agency empowered to prosecute Armenian officials suspected of bribery, fraud and other corrupt practices.
Armenia’s human rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, has met with Robert Kocharian at a prison in Yerevan where the former president is held on corruption and coup charges strongly denied by him.
A senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance claimed on Wednesday that it remains more popular than suggested by a U.S.-funded opinion poll conducted in Armenia in May.
The Armenian police have detained and questioned in recent weeks dozens of men described by them as major crime figures.
A prominent associate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted the governor of Armenia’s central Kotayk province on Monday, blaming him for the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a recent local election.
The two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament said on Wednesday that they see no political reasons for the latest arrest of former President Robert Kocharian.
Lilit Makunts, the parliamentary leader of the ruling My Step alliance, on Monday gave some details of a mandatory “vetting” of all judges planned by the Armenian authorities.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian has ignored a second summons from law-enforcement officials investigating an arson attack reported ahead of a mayoral election in the town of Abovian.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian indicated on Tuesday that he will ignore a second summons from law-enforcement officials investigating an arson attack reported ahead of a recent local election won by a BHK-backed candidate.
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