A leading member of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) on Wednesday denied the newly disclosed U.S. claims that Armenia had re-exported weapons to Iran.
Military investigators officially identified on Wednesday an Armenian soldier who they say shot dead four fellow servicemen and wounded three others at a military base in Nagorno-Karabakh late last week.
An Armenian court on Friday rejected opposition leader Nikol Pashinian’s lawsuit against a controversial extension of his imprisonment by prison authorities.
The Armenian military said on Thursday that it has formally dismissed two mid-level army officers who were recently charged with extorting money from their subordinates.
Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader and newspaper editor, has been placed in solitary confinement after claiming to have been assaulted at the Kosh prison near Yerevan, it emerged on Tuesday.
Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader and newspaper editor, claimed to have been assaulted in his prison cell early on Thursday, an allegation categorically denied by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
Two Turkish minority party leaders have been asked to leave Armenia after being questioned by National Security Service officials about their claims to have crossed the closed Armenian-Turkish border earlier this month.
Armenia views the latest round of Karabakh talks with Azerbaijan as “useful and important”, according to its foreign minister Edward Nalbandian.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed on the need for further confidence-building measures in the protracted search for peace in Karabakh as they held a fresh round of talks in Russia.
An Armenian nationalist party said on Tuesday it had “no serious expectations” from a new round of Armenian-Azerbaijani talks on Karabakh to be hosted by Russia this week.
Gegham Harutiunian, an advisor to Armenia’s defense minister, has ascribed the latest high-profile revelations in the ranks to the policy of allowing “greater publicity” being pursued by the country’s military authorities.
Armenian opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian has struck an optimistic note about the prospect of an imminent release of about a dozen members of his alliance currently in jail after politically charged trials.
Armenia’s leading independent television controversially taken off the air more than eight years ago has made another bid to regain its broadcasting license amid lingering concerns about the fairness of the ongoing contest.
Armenian opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian has leveled fresh criticism at a European body overseeing the state of democracy in Armenia accusing it of “inconsistent efforts” to see the fulfillment of its resolutions through in the South Caucasus state.
The leader of a major Armenian opposition party has warned the authorities that they will seek a broader international support in achieving the release of a dozen or so members of their alliance who, the opposition claims, remain jailed for their political views.
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia said on Friday that they have not yet been contacted by U.S. federal investigators in connection with the arrests of Armenian-born Americans accused of large-scale medical insurance fraud.
A recent UN court ruling that upheld the legality of Kosovo’s secession from Serbia set an important precedent for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, President Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Monday.
Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman, Armen Harutiunian, gave on Friday a largely positive assessment of a recently enacted government bill which critics say precludes the liberalization of Armenian broadcast media.
President Serzh Sarkisian has appointed Armenia’s former top military representative to NATO as first deputy minister of defense and relieved the controversial chief of the Armenian military police of his duties.
Raffi Hovannisian will not back fellow opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian in Armenia’s next presidential election and will himself contest it, a senior member of his Zharangutyun (Heritage) Party said on Wednesday.
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