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Armenian Sport Minister’s Son Arrested for Drug Trafficking: Paper
Last week, RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Yuri Vardanyan’s oldest son was arrested at the Iran-Armenia border, reports local daily Zhoghovurd.Read More »
Armenia’s Corrupt Elite Hampers Economic Development: Report
A report published today by an international think tank finds that the negative impact of corruption on Armenia’s economy is “substantial” and major companies are involved in that process.Read More »
VIDEO: Armenian Activists Interrupt Conference on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance
A group of peaceful activists staged a protest in Yerevan today during a “High Level Conference on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Europe” organized by the Council of Europe.Read More »
Armenian National Accused of Podolsk Bus Crash Health Improved, Moved to Butyrka Prison
Armenian national Hrachya Harutyunyan, the driver accused of causing a fatal bus accident near the Russian village of Podolsk earlier this year, has been moved to another detention facility.Read More »
Another Car Belonging to Opposition Activist Vandalized
Member of the Pre-Parliament civic initiative and the pressure group “Let’s liberate the monument from the oligarch” Karo Yeghnukyan’s second vehicle was vandalized on the night of Oct. 17.Read More »
Conscript ‘Inflicts Himself with Fatal Gunshot Wound’: Defense Ministry
Military conscript Ruben Davtyan at around 1:30 pm on Oct. 18 “inflicted himself with a fatal gunshot wound” from the weapon he was carrying, reports the RA Ministry of Defense.Read More »
How an Armenian Oligarch Pays Taxes
Alex Grig, one of the companies owned by oligarch, Republican Party of Armenia MP Samvel Aleksanyan, has leased another company also belonging to Aleksanyan, Lusastgh Sugar.Read More »
Armenian Government Violates Procedure for Implementing ECHR Rulings
Since 2010, oversight procedures in the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, which supervises the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgments, have changed...Read More »
‘Justice to Tigran Araqelyan’ Art Seen on Northern Avenue (VIDEO)
After a six-month break, the art group "Counter Blow" made a come back with a poster stuck on a wall on Northern Ave. in central Yerevan...Read More »
OSCE Monitoring of Karabakh Frontline Stopped Because of Shooting
“A planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan to be conducted by the OSCE Mission in the Hadrut direction, scheduled for October 17, was stopped...Read More »