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14:44 07/09/2018Russia drops arrest warrant for ex-defense minister of Armenia: mediaRussia has cancelled the CIS interstate arrest warrant for former Armenian Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan wanted in Armenia as part of a criminal case into the March 2008 events in capital...
14:08 07/09/2018Armenian parliament fully passes bill criminalizing electoral bribesThe Armenian National Assembly unanimously passed on Friday in the second reading and in full the draft law proposing amendments and supplements to the Criminal Code and the attached legislative...
18:46 06/09/2018Armenia moves to criminalize pickpocketingThe government approved a draft law proposing to criminalize pickpocketing in Armenia at Thursday’s meeting.
18:41 06/09/2018The House-Museum of the great Armenian writer William SaroyanOn August 31st, 2018, the 110th anniversary of William Saroyan, the house-museum of the great writer was opened in Fresno, USA.
15:35 06/09/2018ECHR obliges Armenia to pay €3,400 in uranium smuggling caseIn Thursday’s Chamber judgment in the case of Dadayan v. Armenia the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (d) (right to a...
14:36 06/09/2018Police chief: Protesters were unarmed at March 2008 eventsArmenian Police Chief of Valeriy Osipyan does not rule out there are police officers who are involved in the March 1 criminal case into the post-election unrests in capital Yerevan in 2008, which...
11:45 06/09/2018Saudi Arabia declares online satire punishable offenceSaudi Arabia will punish online satire that "disrupts public order" with up to five years in prison, the public prosecutor said Tuesday, as the kingdom cracks down on dissent, AFP reports.
15:16 04/09/2018Ex-Yerevan mayor to be questioned over fund bribery case, security chief saysFormer Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan will be questioned over the Yerevan Foundation fraud case, Director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan told reporters on Tuesday.
18:30 01/09/2018Armenian police track down US fugitive of Armenian origin wanted for homicideArmenian police officers have tracked down and detained a 36-year-old US citizen of Armenian origin wanted by American law enforcement agencies.
13:21 30/08/2018Armenian president signs Lake Sevan bill into lawPresident Armen Sarkissian of Armenia signed the bill on making supplements to the law on approving the programs toward restoration, preservation, reproduction and use of the ecosystem of Lake Sevan...
11:30 30/08/2018Investigative Committee: Former Armenian top judge named victim in house assault caseArmenia’s Investigative Committee continues conducting a large-scale probe as part of the criminal case launched into the armed attack on the house of a former Armenian top judge by three gunmen.
13:14 29/08/2018Police identify one of gunmen as new details emerge over ex-court chief’s house attackPolice have released new details over the attack against a former Armenian court head, which occurred late on Tuesday.
11:11 29/08/2018Gunmen attack former Court of Cassation head's mansionThree heavily armed and masked gunmen entered the area of a mansion belonging to Arman Mkrtumyan, former Chairman of Armenia’s Court of Cassation, late on Tuesday.
19:03 28/08/2018Armenian appellate court rejects attorney’s appeal over Khachaturov’s caseThe Armenian Court of Appeals on Monday rejected the appeal by Mihran Poghosyan, the attorney of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, the attorney told...
14:31 24/08/2018Appeal court extends sentence of former South Korea president Park Geun-hye to 25 yearsA South Korean appeal court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to 25 years in jail on Friday, in a case arising from a far-reaching corruption scandal that toppled her from power in 2017.
11:40 24/08/2018Two policemen attacked near diplomatic properties in MoscowAn identified person carrying a gun attacked police officers next to the Cambodian embassy in Russia, near the Foreign Ministry building in central Moscow, Sputnik agency reported.
16:15 23/08/2018Man kills 2 women in Belgian knife attackA man allegedly stabbed two women to death in eastern Belgium on Wednesday, authorities said, in a knife attack that the local mayor said was not terror-related.
16:45 22/08/2018Nikol Pashinyan defends the idea of transitional justice as “internationally accepted tool”Armenian Prime Minister has defended the idea of introducing transitional justice system, describing the measure as “an internationally accepted practice.” The PM’s comments came at a short briefing...
10:50 20/08/2018Unknown gunman attacks US Embassy in TurkeyAn unidentified person fired shots at US Embassy in Ankara at around 5 am local time, CNN Turk reported.
15:52 17/08/2018Police detect 68 crimes in Armenia in one dayThe Armenian Police have detected a total of 68 crime cases in the country over the past one day, according to the latest operations reports.