Arthur Kocharyan, now serving a life sentence in Armenia’s Armavir Penitentiary, anxiously paced the hallway before receiving his high school equivalency diploma on February 19.
As a result, the investment company Rasia FZE and its American executive director Joseph Borkowski not only did not receive the requested claim of US$331 million, but also suffered losses, compensating Armenia for legal expenses.
On May 17, 2014, an article titled “They Serve the Interests of the International Homosexual Lobby: The Blacklist of Enemies of the Nation and the State” was posted on the website of the Iravunk newspaper.
Ms. Flores pins her hopes on being extradited back to Peru. This would cost $10,000, an amount the family can’t pay.
An Armenian interdepartmental commission is considering shutting down 1,056 foreign internet gambling and lottery websites that operate in Armenia without an appropriate license.
The Armenian Justice Ministry claims that “technical issues” have prevented the launch of an electronic bankruptcy system in the country four years after it signed a $439,000 deal with the Harmony Information Technologies and Education Development Fu
A company owned by Vahe Makunts, brother of Armenian Ambassador to the U.S. Lilit Makunts, has been fined AMD 300,000 for illegally mining sand in Armenia’s Armavir Province.
Alexander “Sashik” Sargsyan, brother of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has been summoned to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) to answer charges that some of the properties he owns were acquired through illegal means.
Every evening, a choking layer of malodorous smoke covers large swaths of Etchmiadzin, a town in Armenia where the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church is located.
Forty-five of the fifty-three inmates at Armenia’s Vanadzor Correctional Facility who went on hunger strike on February 27 to demand better conditions have ceased their protest.
Crimes committed by convicts and detained persons have nearly doubled in Armenia’s ten prisons, up from 155 in 2022 to 302 in 2023.
Victor Hovakimyan has been on a hunger strike in Armenia’s Nubarashen Penitentiary since December 20 after having been sentenced for murdering and robbing a citizen in the town of Kajaran in February 2021.
Dmitry Setrakov, who fled to Armenia from Russia to avoid being sent to the war in Ukraine after being mobilized, is currently in police custody in Russia.
Three of the suspended judges are from Yerevan’s General Jurisdiction Court of Yerevan, one is a Civil Court of Appeals judge, and three worked at the Court of Cassation.
Yerevan police are at a loss to explain why the city’s twenty-one cemeteries are targeted by people who steal burial wreaths from gravesites, especially in November and December.
Twenty-eight-year-old Vardan Manukyan has deposited 77 million drams (US$191,000) in Armenian banks since becoming an investigator in the country’s Corruption Prevention Committee (CPC) this October 20.
Pashinyan, when asked to explain why he will not attend a November 23 CSTO session in Minsk, said he’s decided not to go for “various reasons”.
Melkonyan says teaching younger students is new to her, but she’s adapting to the new work environment and to life in Armenia She says everything is different, even the stones and nature.
Armenia’s parliament, by a vote of 60-22, today ratified the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The boy’s parents, along with his sister Sofia and brother Razmik, reached the Armenian border village of Kornidzor yesterday and registered as a displaced family. The queue was long, they had no place to sleep.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan today, during a Q&A parliamentary session, said he believes the National Assembly will ratify the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and that it has nothing to do with Armenia-Russia relations, but rela
Vahe Makunts, who once served as an assistant to Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, started buying shares in four companies in the “sand business” in January 2023.
Getting information from government agencies has become a serious challenge for the media in Armenia.
Police today arrested former Armenian Minister of Education Armen Ashotyan on charges of abusing his official position and money laundering in a case involving Yerevan’s State Medical University.
An Armenian court today sentenced one of the two Azerbaijani soldiers caught on the outskirts of the Armenian Syunik town of Sisian last month to eleven years and six months.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan confirmed claims made by opposition Hayastan (Armenia) MP Gegham Nazaryan that the Armenian customs post along the border with Iran near the town of Meghri is poorly managed and filthy.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Armenian government to pay €50,000 in damages to the mother of Tigran Ohanjanyan, who died in 2007 while serving in the Armenian Army.
Armenia’s Corruption Court is reviewing a petition filed by the country’s Prosecutor General Office (PGO) to seize millions of dollars of property and cash from former prime minister Hovik Abrahamyan.
Armenian Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan, during a parliamentary Q&A session today, reiterated the Pashinyan administration’s view that peace and stability in the region can only be achieved if the rights and security of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians ar
Sixty-nine pro-government Civil Contract MPs voted in favor of Manasyan, who had been serving as Deputy Prosecutor General. Opposition MPs boycotted the vote.
Mirzoyan also said Armenia is not negotiating on an Azerbaijani demand that checkpoints be established on the Lachin Corridor.
Pashinyan, at today’s parliamentary Q&A session, prefaced his remarks by noting the devastating fire at Yerevan’s Surmalu Market that killed sixteen and injured scores of others.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) summoned family members of former Yerevan State University Rector Aram Simonyan for questioning regarding the financial source of certain properties they own.
Melkonyan says the court also received 160 civil cases, 26 of which related to confiscation of property of illegal origin.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in a decision released on January 24, says Armenia was responsible for the 2010 death of detainee Slavik Voskanyan and has obligated the Armenian government to pay EUR 20,000 to his wife.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has summoned Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan, Vicar General of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese, for questioning regarding the legality of some of his possessions.
The Armenian National Assembly, by a vote of 57-0, today adopted a statement calling on the international community to condemn Azerbaijan’s blocking of the Lachin Corridor and the cutting off the natural gas supply.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has filed a request with a local Yerevan court to seize 681.9 million drams (US$1.730 million) from Arsen Avetisyan, director of the defunct Air Armenia company, charging him with embezzling the money paid
Surprisingly, while the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs turned down the request in June, the Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) claims it only was informed of the decision recently, via the Armenian Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee has launched a criminal probe based on an October 6 article revealing that the family of former Armenian Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan has launched a new fish farm in Ghazaravan, a village in Armenia’s Aragatzo
The family of former Armenian Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan has launched a new fish farm in Ghazaravan, a village in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province.
At a parliamentary Q&A session today, PM Nikol Pashinyan said his government wants to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by year’s end and is working towards this.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Armenian government to pay damages to the family of a man who was conscripted into military service in 2009 while suffering from serious health problems.
The Armenian National Assembly today, by a vote of 65-0, elected Vahagn Hovakimyan to replace outgoing Central Electoral Commission Chairman Tigran Mukuchyan.
67 of the parliament’s 107 MPs cast ballots in today’s vote. All 67 Civil Contract MPs voted in favor of Andreasyan and Tumanyants.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan today announced that he is going to Prague to attend a summit of the European Political Community (EPC).
Teachers at Armenia’s Armavir Regional College have been on strike since September 8, demanding the resignation of the college’s director Angin Arshakyan.
A criminal investigation in Armenia in the death of ten people from alcohol poisoning in Armavir, in August 2020, continues.
It’s an expensive proposition that most farmers can’t implement on their own.
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