Gevorg Loretsyan. Image via Facebook.
Armenian Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Gevorg Loretsyan has been arrested along with his driver as part of a corruption investigation. [Read more…]
Serzh Sargsyan. Official picture.
The former President and Prime Minister of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, has been charged with embezzling around ֏490 million ($1 million). [Read more…]
The session at the Armenian Parliament on19 November. Official photo.
On 19 November, Armenia’s National Assembly passed a new draft bill on criminalizing the creation of criminal subculture groups. The bill passed, despite both parliamentary opposition parties opposing it. [Read more…]
Photo: still from video.
The former head of Armenia’s advisory Public Council, Vazgen Manukyan, has announced the creation of the Vernatun Club, a new political organisation, in a meeting on 15 November attended mostly by opposition figures linked to the former ruling Republican Party. [Read more…]
(Photo: Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ordered a doubling of ministers’ and other high-ranking officials salaries without making the raises public, Armenian investigative outlet Hetq has reported. [Read more…]
A Syrian refugee receiving help at the Red Cross office in Yerevan, Armenia. Photo: ICRC.
A sizeable community of ethnic Armenians has found itself under fire in northeastern Syria in the wake of Turkey’s offensive. Armenian authorities have stated that they are willing to help them relocate. [Read more…]
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan with the President of Moldova Igor Dodon, President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Eight heads of state gathered this week in Yerevan at the annual meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union. The event included a one-on-one meeting between the Russian and Armenian leaders as well as Iran announcing its intentions to join the Russia-led trading bloc. [Read more…]
Robert Kocharyan. Official picture.
The trial of ex-President Robert Kocharyan, which began on 12 September, has been rocked by tumult with competing protests and the recent death of a key witness. [Read more…]
Sanitek's overturned bins next to the new green bins provided by Yerevan Municipality. Photo: Hovhannes Ishkhanyan/OC Media.
Yerevan’s authorities have taken over waste-collection from Lebanon-based contractor Sanitek after the summer’s ‘rubbish crisis’. [Read more…]
Photograph: Harutyun Nazaryan/SCR
Russian Railways has threatened to pull out of Armenia’s rail sector in response to an investigation by the Armenian government, triggering the latest row between the two countries. [Read more…]
