Swiss authorities dropped on Tuesday a decade-long graft investigation linked to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who uncovered the multi-million scandal and then died in a Moscow prison in 2009.
All 71 Civil Contract faction MPs voted for Simonyan.
Alen Simonyan, a candidate for the post of parliamentary speaker, told reporters today that reporters will be restricted to certain areas within the building so that interviews with MPs do not interfere with official work.
Narek Mkrtchyan Appointed Armenian Minister of Labor and Social Affairs
Yerevan native Arshak Karapetyan has been appointed Armenia’s Minister of Defense.
Acting Armenian Minister of Environment Romanos Petrosyan was today appointed the country’s Minister of Environment.
The Stepanavan native served as the country’s Minister of Territorial Administration and Development and was a member of Nikol Pashinyan’s 2018 My Step (Im Kayl) Movement.
A group of masked men stormed the Kotayk house of Arman Antonyan, a member of the My Step faction of the Yerevan Municipal Council last night, severely beating and stabbing him.
Acting Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan has been appointed the country’s prime minister.
The eighth convocation of Armenia’s National Assembly got underway today with MPs observing a minute of silence to commemorate those who dies during last year’s war in Karabakh.