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.
Russia’s ambassador to Armenia was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan last week after meeting with the indicted former President Robert Kocharian, a senior Armenian lawmaker revealed on Monday.
President Armen Sarkissian’s latest nominee to the Constitutional Court said on Thursday that his warm relations with members of Armenia’s new ruling elite would not influence his judicial activities.
The head of Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) insisted on Monday that the law-enforcement body had sufficient evidence to arrest and indict a former deputy commander of Armenian interior troops over the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Senior opposition lawmakers in Yerevan on Friday called on Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders to defuse their increasingly visible tensions through dialogue.
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