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Armenia’s Prime Minister diagnosed with sharp neurosis

2020.01.27 15:12 GMT

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has had to receive medical aid due to sharp neurosis, APA reports citing “Pen master” Telegram-channel.

Apartment of Armenia's Constitutional Court chairman being searched

2020.01.24 15:58 GMT

Armenia's Special Investigative Service is searching the apartment of the head of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan, spokesperson of the Special Investigation Service Marina Ohanjanyan confirmed.

Armenian society still waiting for improvements in quality of life

2020.01.17 17:13 GMT

News.Az reprints from Vestnik Kavkaza an article headlined "Armenian society still waiting for improvements in quality of life" by Mikhail Simonov.

Armenia's National Security Service exposes a military group that stole and sold jet fuel

2020.01.16 15:26 GMT

Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) said today it has obtained evidence that a group of military personnel of a military unit stole and sold about 85 tons of jet fuel worth 40 million drams, ARKA reports.

Armenia Constitutional Court President questioned in Yerevan

2020.01.14 15:30 GMT

Armenia's Special Investigation Service summoned President of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan to an interview yesterday, Vestnik Kavkaza reports.

Yerevan decides to ignore fact of desecration of monument to Griboedov

2020.01.13 15:51 GMT

Armenia does not intend to initiate a criminal case on the fact of desecration of a monument to Russian diplomat and poet Alexander Griboedov in Yerevan, Zarzand Gabrielyan, representative of the country's police press service, said today.

Head of Armenian water committee sacked

2020.01.10 15:23 GMT

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has relieved Vardan Melkonyan as Chairman of the Water Committee, ARKA reports.

Pashinyan's press secretary quits

2020.01.09 16:25 GMT

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's press secretary Vladimir Karapetyan resigned.

‘Criminal adventures’ of Armenian army colonel, drug lord Budaghyan

2020.01.08 19:11 GMT

News.Az reprints from Azvision.az an article headlined "Criminal adventures’ of Armenian army colonel, drug lord Budaghyan".

Armenia's Investigative Committee launches criminal case over contact serviceman's suicide

2020.01.08 15:44 GMT

Armenia's Investigative Committee said it has launched a criminal case over the death of a contact serviceman who is presumed to have been driven to committing suicide, ARKA reports.

Teenage girl strangled in Yerevan

2020.01.07 17:17 GMT

A 16-year-old girl was killed in an apartment in the center of Yerevan; the child’s body was found in one of the apartments on Sayat-Nova Street.

More than 50 people injured in Armenia due to New Year's fireworks

2020.01.02 10:37 GMT

Fifty-two people affected by the New Year's firecrackers and fireworks have turned to medical centers in Armenia, the country's Health Minister Arsen Torosyan said.

Sugar price in Armenia likely to rise in 2020

2019.12.30 15:30 GMT

The price of sugar in Armenia is very likely to rise in 2020, Gegham Gevorgyan, the head of State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition, told a press conference today.

Three children and adult suffer carbon monoxide poisoning in Armenia

2019.12.29 15:10 GMT

A family of four suffered a carbon monoxide poisoning in Masis (Ararat region), the Armenian police press service reported.

Chairman of Armenian constitutional court charged with abuse of power

2019.12.27 16:48 GMT

Hrayr Tovmasyan, the chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, was formally charged today with abuse of power, Marina Ohanjanyan, spokeswoman for the Special Investigation Service, told Novosti-Armenia news agency.

Family dies from carbon monoxide poisoning in Armenia

2019.12.26 15:44 GMT

A married couple and their children died from carbon monoxide poisoning in one of the apartments in the city of Alaverdi of Armenia’s Lori Province.

Armenia resumes the case of a terror act committed in Parliament in 1999

2019.12.25 18:46 GMT

The prosecutor's office of Armenia decided to resume the investigation of the criminal case on the terrorist act in parliament in 1999, said the press secretary of the department Arevik Khachatryan, APA reports citing RIA Novosti.

Pashinyan boasted paid article in Time

2019.12.24 16:16 GMT

Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan on Twitter shared an article published in the American weekly magazine Time, Vestnik Kavkaza reports.

Supporter of ex-president Kocharyan tried to bribe a citizen in return for backtracking on his previous testimony

2019.12.20 16:01 GMT

A supporter of Armenia's ex-president Robert Kocharyan tried to bribe a citizen who was recognized as an aggrieved person in the violent clashes between protesters and security forces in the wake of the disputed 2008 presidential election, asking him to backtrack on his previous testimony in return for a hefty monetary reward, the Armenian Police said.

Citizens of Armenia are not ready for rise in prices of a long list of essential goods

2019.12.17 19:40 GMT

Citizens of Armenia are not ready to bear the brunt of the anticipated rise in the prices of a long list of essentials, effective from January 1, 2020, Marina Arakelyan, director of the Center for Economic Development Initiatives, said at a news conference on Tuesday.