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13:48 24/06/2020Opposition Bright Armenia faction to challenge legality of constitutional amendments, but not nowThe opposition Bright Armenia faction of the Armenian parliament will ask the Constitutional Court to assess the legality of the government-backed constitutional changes, but not at the moment, its...
11:18 24/06/2020Bulgarian PM Borissov fined for not wearing a maskBulgaria's Prime Minister Boïko Borissov is to be fined for entering a church without a mask, according to the country's health ministry.
11:13 24/06/2020Armenian president signs bill allowing parliament to enforce constitutional amendmentsPresident Armen Sarkissian of Armenia has signed into law a bill authorizing the parliament to enforce the constitutional amendments without his formal approval, the presidential press service said.
20:19 23/06/2020Prosecutors appeal court ruling denying request for Gagik Tsarukyan’s arrestThe Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia has appealed to a higher court the ruling of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction to deny a motion for the arrest of the opposition Prosperous Armenia...
18:21 23/06/2020Kocharyan’s lawyer blasts SIS for 'stupid' charges delaying court hearings"There is one subject in Armenia, due to which the court hearings are delayed. It is the Special Investigation Service (SIS) which has brought stupid charges to court,” Hovhannes Khudoyan, a member...
17:16 23/06/2020Kyrgyz ex-president sentenced to 11 years in prisonA court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced former president Almazbek Atambayev to 11 years and two months in prison on Tuesday on corruption charges, which he denies, Reuters reports.
15:37 23/06/2020Court hearing in case of Kocharyan and others postponedThe Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction, presided over by judge Anna Danibekyan, postponed on Tuesday the hearing in the case of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan and three other former...
13:52 23/06/2020I feel ashamed of what we saw in the National Assembly - Hrayr Tovmasyan“The acting Constitution, which is authored also by me, envisages initial constitutional control over any constitutional changes,” the President of the Armenian Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan...
10:40 22/06/2020Court denies request for Gagik Tsarukyan’s arrestThe Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction, presided over by judge Robert Papoyan, has ruled against the arrest of opposition Prosperous Armenia Party leader, lawmaker Gagik Tsarukyan.
10:06 22/06/2020Passengers sue American Airlines for racial discriminationA Black man from Arizona and four other people filed a joint racial discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines after the man was removed from a flight.
17:11 20/06/2020Police: 951 violations of health and safety regulations recorded in one dayArmenian law enforcement officers have lodged 39,112 administrative proceedings to date for violating state of emergency rules imposed to contain the coronavirus, according to figures from the Police...
15:54 20/06/2020Media reveals names of major businessmen who paid bail for Kocharyan’s releaseNumber of Russian-based businessmen and entrepreneurs have paid the bail amount totaling 2 trillion AMD (4.2 million USD) set by the Court of Appeals for the release of former President Robert...
12:06 20/06/2020Ex-president Kocharyan’s office thanks benefactors and citizens for support with bail paymentArmenia’s President Robert Kocharyan’s measure of restraint has been changed following the ruling of the Court of Appeals, requiring payment of the bail and completion of procedures envisaged by the...
18:13 19/06/2020Court to announce decision on arrest motion for Tsarukyan on SundayThe Yerevan Court will release the decision on the motion to arrest Gagik Tsarukyan on Sunday, Tsarukyan told reporters while walking out of the Court building.
15:19 19/06/2020Lawyer: Wording of Armenian Criminal Code’s Article 300.1 ‘incomprehensible’ to Venice Commission“My colleagues and I have repeatedly talked about some extremely incomprehensible provisions of Article 300.1 of Armenia’s Criminal Code, such as ‘factual elimination of a norm’, ‘termination of the...
14:23 19/06/2020Lawyer: No need for any preventive measure against Robert Kocharyan at allHovhannes Khudoyan, one of second Armenian President Robert Kocharyan’s lawyers, says they cannot release details of the July 18 appellate court ruling, as the defense team has not yet been provided...
13:35 19/06/2020Major businessmen, philanthropists expressed readiness to help post Kocharyan’s bail, office saysSeveral major businessmen and philanthropists, whose names will be disclosed to the public in the near future, have expressed readiness to help post the bail for the release of Armenia’s second...
12:12 19/06/2020Venice Commission delivers opinion on Article 300.1 of Armenia’s Criminal CodeThe Venice Commission adopted on Thursday an amicus curiae brief relating to Article 300.1 of Armenia’s Criminal Code which penalizes overthrowing the constitutional order requested by the country’s...
10:57 19/06/2020Yerevan court resumes hearing on motion to arrest Gagik TsarukyanThe Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction is resuming today the hearing on a motion to arrest opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader, MP Gagik Tsarukyan.
19:44 18/06/2020NGOs call for accountability for police officers responsible for the incident with reportersSeveral Journalist organizations have condemned the actions of Police during the incident with reporters in Yerevan on the evening of June 16.