Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has recalled Armenian Ambassador to Ukraine Andranik Manvelyan to Yerevan.
In a statement, the Fund says that interim Executive Director Bedros Terzian will head a committee to select the organization’s next director at a vote scheduled for September 10.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian’s two sons, 37-year-old Vardan and 34-year-old Hayk, have been exempted from compulsory military service in Armenia.
As part of its investigation of the March 2008 post-election protests in Yerevan, Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) announced today that it has launched a new criminal case regarding the dispersal of peace protesters in the morning of March 1, 2008 who had camped out in Yerevan’s Liberty Square.
Vanik Gevorgyan, a soldier serving in the Artsakh Defense Army, died yesterday in as yet unknown circumstances, this according to the Artsakh Ministry of Defense.