Yesterday, Slovakia’s National Crime Agency seized a mobile phone belonging to our partner, investigative reporter Pavla Holcova from the Czech Center for Investigative Reporting.
But Manukyan never heard what the teachers had to say since she already had left the building. No one know where she had gone.
Newly elected Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has reaffirmed that the two countries are strategic allies and that Yerevan’s foreign policy towards Moscow will not change.
After Judge Mesrop Makyan handed down his ruling, supporters of the ten defendants blocked the street outside the courtroom, calling for the release of all political prisoners.
Several activists who had assembled outside the Yerevan Municipal Building to protest what they label as the uncalled-for destruction of trees in a strip of land between Italy and Beirut streets in downtown Yerevan, forced their way inside later in the day and called on Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan to resign.
Residents are demanding to see the budgetary books for the past ten years and are accusing local officials of engaging in shady business dealings.
U.S. President Donald Trump has congratulated Nikol Pashinyan on his election as Armenian prime minister via the following Facebook post.