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16:16 30/01/2019Armenia’s crime rate up 11,2% last year, police colonel saysThe Crime rate in Armenia grew by 11,2% or over 2018, but the country’s murder rate hit its lowest point over the past 40 years, Head of the Armenian Police Headquarters, Police Colonel Armen...
14:58 30/01/2019Armenia’s Constitutional Court rejects Kocharyan’s appealThe Constitutional Court of Armenia has rejected the appeal of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan due to a lack of ‘sufficient legal grounds.’ The lawyers representing Kocharyan in the...
15:58 29/01/2019Axe-wielding man subdued by bank security officer in ArmeniaAn axe-wielding man has been neutralized after attacking a bank in downtown Yerevan, police said. The man armed with an axe entered the VTB Bank’s branch on Baghramyan Avenue, police officers...
14:58 29/01/2019Gender equality, domestic violence, LGBTI rights: CoE publishes new report on ArmeniaToday the Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, published the report of her visit to Armenia carried out in September 2018.
13:55 29/01/20191 dead, 6 wounded in restaurant shooting in Armenian townOne person has been killed and six others wounded in a shooting in the Armenian town of Abovyan on Monday night, the Investigative Committee said.
13:29 29/01/2019Court denies appeal for arrest of Armenia’s ex-deputy PMThe Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals upheld today the ruling of a lower court on refusing to arrest Armenia’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of the Security Council Armen Gevorgyan as a...
11:23 29/01/2019Yerevan court to hear Kocharyan’s appeal todayThe Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals, under presiding judge Mnatsakan Harutyunyan, is set to hear the appeal of second President Robert Kocharyan against the ruling of a lower court on Tuesday, at...
16:07 28/01/2019Painting by Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi stolen from Moscow’s Tretyakov GalleryA painting by famous Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuinzhi has been stolen from Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery.
20:07 25/01/2019Yerevan appellate court to issue ruling on ex-deputy PM’s measure of restraint on Jan. 29The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals will issue a ruling on the measure of restraint of Armenia’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of the Security Council Armen Gevorgyan on 29 January, he...
15:19 25/01/2019Trump official 'overrules' rejection of Jared Kushner's top security clearanceA Trump administration personnel official overruled intelligence experts who had denied top-secret security clearance for Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, HuffPost reports, citing NBC.
15:02 25/01/2019Armenia's Presidential Palace hosts oath-taking ceremony of newly appointed judgesOath-taking ceremony of the newly appointed judges took place at the Presidential Palace with the participation of President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian, the presidential office reported.
13:28 25/01/2019European Court obliges Armenia to pay €7,200 in two casesThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued two judgements in two cases against Armenia – Ghulyan v.
11:58 25/01/2019Armenia’s Penitentiary Service to target social reintegration of prisoners in 2019Despite the positive dynamics observed in the penitentiary system, the Justice Ministry will push ahead with its efforts towards the further development of the sector with bigger enthusiasm, Minister...
15:32 24/01/2019Ukrainian court finds ex-president guilty of treasonA court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason, AP reports.
14:13 23/01/2019Crime rate grows in Armenia after amnesty, lawyer saysArmenia has seen an increase in crime rates following the recently declared amnesty, advocate Armine Fanyan told a news conference on Wednesday.
14:30 22/01/2019Retired army general Manvel Grigoryan to be re-arrestedThe Yerevan Court of Appeals ruled today to re-arrest Manvel Grigoryan, a retired general of the Armenian army and a former Republican lawmaker.
12:28 22/01/2019Armenia thwarts drug smuggling attempt from IranOfficers of the State Revenue Committee’s anti-smuggling department and the Armenian police department combatting drug trafficking have foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs from Iran by an Armenian...
15:24 19/01/2019Impossible to achieve peace without repentance – Marina Grigoryan“The Baku pogroms were planned and orchestrated at the state level,” Marina Grigoryan, the Head of “Ordinary Genocide” project told reporters on Saturday at a discussion dedicated to the 29th...
12:27 19/01/2019Armenian bloggers arrested for 10 days in Moscow for obstructing traffic during video shootingsTwo Armenian bloggers David Manukyan and Karina Karina Lazaryants have been arrested for 10 days for obstructing traffic while filming a video in Moscow, Russia.
18:04 18/01/2019Ex-president Kocharyan to remain in custodyArmenia’s former President Robert Kocharyan will remain into custody for two months according to a Yerevan court ruling issued on Friday, the member of the ex-president’s defense team Aram Orbelyan...