The army not only participated in quelling post-election protests in Armenia in 2008, but also fired at people and residential buildings, a top Armenian investigator insisted on Tuesday, referring to special army units allegedly formed by former authorities for the purpose.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has condemned the wiretapping and posting of telephone conversations that took place between the chiefs of security and investigation agencies in late July and concerned the prosecution of ex-president Robert Kocharian and other former officials in connection with 2008 deadly post-election events.
“Haykakan Zhamanak” suggests that despite the speculation that the Russian leadership has prohibited the country’s ethnic Armenian businessmen to make investments in Armenia it has not found at least one such businessman who would confirm that.
Armenia will engage in a humanitarian mission in Syria by sending mostly doctors and engineers, according to a senior Defense Ministry official in Yerevan.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian called on voters in Yerevan to reaffirm the results of last spring’s “velvet revolution” in an upcoming ballot in the capital – the first major election in Armenia since the change of government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised the current level of relations between Armenia and Georgia as he hosted his Georgian counterpart Mamuka Bakhtadze in Yerevan on Monday.
Twelve political parties and alliances are taking part in municipal elections in Yerevan in which campaigning formally kicked off on Monday, September 10.
An Armenian court on Monday set a bail of over $100,000 for a nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan to be released from remand prison.
Russia has agreed to continue to supply weapons to Armenia, the South Caucasus country’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinian, told the Kommersant newspaper in an interview.
Official Baku has criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian over his latest statement in Moscow concerning the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region disputed by Armenians and Azerbaijan.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will travel to Paris at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron on September 14.
Armenia and Russia will soon implement a joint humanitarian program in Syria, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on September 8.
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