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Opposition MPs Call for Tougher Anti-Corruption Measures
Note, speaking to a group of reporters last week, Karen Karapetyan announced that everyone was from now on free to import whatever they wanted to Armenia; he went ...Read More »
Authorities Looking Into Defense Ministry’s Potato Suppliers After Farmers Protest Against Low Prices: Press
According to the paper, Agriculture minister Ignati Arakelyan recently went to meet the farmers and urged them to wait for a couple of days “until competent government agencies conclude their probe and find out what's really going on...Read More »
Former NKR MP Accuses New Chief of Armenian Army Staff of Embezzlement
Not only do they know about this, but I'm convinced that Movses Hakobyan would not have been able to do anything without Sargsyan's and Ohanyan's knowledge. It's a fact: everyone knows that the supply of bread is on him...Read More »
Armenian Serviceman Arrested Over Fatal Shooting of Fellow Soldier
The soldier, whose identity was not revealed, is accused of opening fire at Virabyan while the latter was on patrol duty. Investigators have launched a murder probe into the conscript's death....Read More »
How Armenian Media Made Up the Circumstances of One Soldier’s Death
On April 8, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the spokesperson for Armenia's Ministry of Defense, published the names of 44 soldiers who were killed between April 2 and 8 in NKR on his Facebook page. Gevorg Mghdesyan was also on...Read More »
Russian Soldier Reportedly Stabbed in Gyumri
The website’s sources did not disclose the name of the soldier, saying only that he is a citizen of Russia. Police “are taking all necessary measures” to identify and locate the alleged suspects, they added...Read More »
Armenian Soldier Killed by Azeri Fire, Officials Say
Sanasur M Grigoryan, a 27-year-old Armenian contract serviceman, was fatally wounded at around midday on October 11 by fire from the Azerbaijani side at a military unit of the Nagorno Karabakh (NKR) Defense Army ...Read More »
Armenian Soldier’s Death Was Not Suicide, Father Insists
However, speaking at a news conference Friday, Norayr Norikyan, a lawyer for the soldier's legal successor, insisted that Mkhitaryan did not commit suicide but was shot deliberately by a fellow serviceman affiliated with higher-ranking army officers...Read More »
Homicide Rate Increased Fourfold in Armenia and Karabakh Armies in 2016
A total of 146 servicemen - among them conscripts, contract soldiers and volunteers who participated in the early April “four-day war” – died in the studied period in the two armies, the report said...Read More »
Six Armenian Conscripts on Trial Based Solely on Officers’ ‘False’ Testimonies, Mother Claims
Speaking to Epress.am, the mother of arrested 20-year-old Arsen Hakobyan, Anahit Hakobyan, insisted that there was only a “small argument” between the soldiers and the officer while authorities “are doing their best...Read More »