Police today arrested the rector of the State Pedagogical University in Yerevan on charges that he created and lead a criminal organization composed of various university employees that committed embezzlement and fraud, and that he accepte
Police today in Armenia arrested the former mayor of Ijevan, the provincial capital of Tavush, on charges of money laundering and abuse of official authority. His son was arrested as part of the same criminal case.
Yerevan’s Kentron Criminal Court today sentenced Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, Primate of the Aragatzotn Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, to two months detention on charges that he used his office to force clergymen under his authority to attend
Kocharyan is demanding recognition of the violation of his presumption of innocence and compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 2 million drams.
Russian state-run media outlet RIA Novosti, citing local police, reports that Avagyan, who served as a special envoy to the former Karabakh presidency, likely committed suicide.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan has issued a stern reprimand to the acting head of the Public Order Service, Avet Babayan, and has sent him on indefinite leave.
Given that parliamentary elections in Armenia are scheduled for 2026, it’s safe to assume that the number of lawsuits filed against the media outlets will increase.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has informed Hetq that it has launched criminal proceedings regarding the September 12 attack on journalist Hakob Karapetyan, who served as press secretary of former Yerevan mayor Hayk Marutyan.
The brother of Armenia’s Ambassador to the U.S. was arrested yesterday in Parakar, a village near Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport, and now faces drug trafficking charges.
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), in an expedited decision on July 22, ordered Armenia to refrain from seizing the assets of Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC, thus stymying recent moves by the Armenia government t
Archbishop Bagrat Galstyan, now in pre-trial detention on charges of terrorism, fomenting public disorder and planning to seize power in Armenia, has filed lawsuits against several politicians demanding compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has now filed a lawsuit against the Cadastre Committee demanding it annul a 2017 decision that gave property rights to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic government.
Armenia’s State Property Management Committee has filed a lawsuit to seize the building and the surrounding property currently owned by Yerevan Circus LLC, which in turn is owned by Samvel Karapetyan’s Tashir Capital CJSC.
A Yerevan court today issued a two-month pre-detention order for Archbishop Mikayel Ajapahyan on charges of making public calls for seizing power and overthrowing constitutional order in Armenia.
Galstyan, the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Tavush Primate, led a protest movement in 2024 opposing the Armenian government’s plan to handover border regions to Azerbaijan.
Yerevan law enforcement today detained businessman Samvel Karapetyan after he gave an interview with news.am in which he denounced those politicians who have recently called for a new leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Abramyan served as prime minister from April 2014 to September 2016. From May 2012 to April 2014, he was the president of Armenia’s parliament.
Twenty-three countries have applied to Armenia with extradition requests. The top three “rejected” countries are Russia (305 requests), Iran (48 requests), and Georgia (20 requests).
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.
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