Scores of demonstrators have gathered in Etchmiadzin’s Komitas Square demanding the resignation of town mayor Karen Grigoryan.
A Yerevan court today released Artur Soghomonyan, a member of the Sasna Dzrer armed group now being tried for the seizure of a Yerevan police building in 2016, from detention while the court case proceeds.
Armenian Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan today introduced employees of the Department of Corrections to their new boss, Artyom Mkhoyan.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian today hosted the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov (Russia), Andrew Sheffer (USA), and Stéphane Visconti (France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Armenia’s Investigative Committee (IC) reports that it has launched a criminal case regarding last month’s food poisoning of eighty employees of Hayastani Hogher (Lands of Armenia), a company owned by Argentine-Armenian businessman Eduardo Eurnekian.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has appointed Vardan Movsisyan as Deputy Police Chief of Armenia
In the Soviet era, various factories operated in Yeghegnadzor, the provincial capital of Armenia’s Vayots Dzor Province, solving the issue of employment there. Now, only three factories remain.