Armenia’s Founding Parliament political opposition organization says that rallies and marches will take place in 16 cities in ten countries calling for a democratic and self-governing Armenia, and in solidarity with the Sasna Dzrer armed group that seized a police building in Yerevan this July, holding it for two weeks before surrendering to police.
After the close of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Council of Heads of States meeting in Kyrgystan, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin, paid his respects at a memorial in Arashan to those who fought and died in the Great Patriotic War.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian leaves for New York tomorrow to address the 71st Regular Session of the UN General Assembly.
A Yerevan court has rejected parole for Alik Grigoryan, who has served 18 years’ imprisonment on charges of engaging in criminal activities as a member of the Armen Ter-Sahakyan gang.