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Sasna Tsrer Members Accused of Stealing Millions from ATM in Seized Police Station
What’s more, the daily writes, the money was not even found during the searches that were conducted in the police station...Read More »
Parents’ Civic Initiative Urges Anti-Corruption Fight in Schools
It’s high time that we started taking specific measures against money collection and other illegal activities taking place in educational institutions. The effectiveness of these...Read More »
Armenia’s Defense Minister Talks Big While Soldiers Are Slaughtered in the Army, Parents of Dead Conscript Say
The Mkhitaryans recall that when their son was only drafted into the army, he “ended up in a bad troop,” and the family tried their best to transfer Arsen to a different unit...Read More »
Sanitek Blacklists Employees Who Take on Second Jobs, Former Worker Says
We had only been working at the market for a week when Sanitek officials came for us… They were filming the entire process, as if we were some kind of criminals...Read More »
Gyumri Massacre Convict to Serve Life Sentence in Russia
Permyakov, a 20-year-old conscript soldier of the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri, was sentenced to life in prison by an Armenian court last August for murdering...Read More »
Armenia’s Ruling Party Wins Yerevan Municipal Elections
According to the CEC, only 40.99% of Yerevan’s eligible voting population turned out to vote in the election, which the opposition candidates claim were marred by widespread ...Read More »
Conviction Based on False Confession: Vardenis Family Robbed of 13 Years of Life
The Nalbandyans, in turn, insist that the high-profile murder case was cooked up against them by the then Vardenis police chief, Viktor Hakobyan, and regional prosecutor...Read More »
CEC Denies Yelk Request to Disqualify Republican Party from City Council Elections
Nonetheless, Mukuchyan made a decision in favor of the Republican Party, insisting that the video published by Zakharyan did not provide enough evidence to conclude that ...Read More »
Trial Over Brother of Yerevan Armed Group Member Tainted By Judge’s Obvious Bias, Lawyer Says
He has been making it evident that he fully supports the accusations [against Khandoyan] and cannot therefore be considered an impartial judge conducting a fair trial...Read More »
Opposition Bloc Demands That CEC Appropriately Reacts to Distribution of Pre-Marked Ballot Papers by Republicans
Yelk alliance has appealed to the Central Election Commission of Armenia, demanding that either the ruling Republican Party be disqualified from...Read More »