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The certification scheme in the Armenian military offered by the government contains risks, MP Seyran Ohanyan, the head of the largest opposition Hayastan faction in the Armenian parliament, claims. Speaking at the parliamentary debates on the government-drafted amendments to the laws on the status of servicemen and their sala...

The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has uncovered another case of high treason involving an Armenian army major. In a statement on Tuesday, the law enforcement agency said the officer was recruited by foreign intelligence services in July 2021 and signed a cooperation agreement with them. Being the chief of a depar...

Protests erupted during Joe Biden's Cop27 speech at Sharm el-Sheikh today when he called America a "world leader" in climate action, The Independent reported. Young activists holding a banner with a message against fossil fuels stood up in the Nefertiti Hall venue when the US president was addressing a packed auditorium. They...

Lawyer Aram Obrelyan calls for efforts to ensure judicial independence and impunity in Armenia, stating government officials should be banned from criticizing court rulings. “There is a big problem with ensuring the independence of judges in the country,” he told parliamentary debates on the overloading of courts on Tuesday. ...

The State Revenue Committee (SRC) of Armenia says its employees have thwarted attempts to smuggle several batches of cigarettes from Iran. In a statement on Tuesday, the SRC said 383,000 units (19,150 packs) of smuggled cigarettes were discovered by customs officers at the Meghri border checkpoint on the Armenian-Iranian borde...

The relatives of those killed and wounded in a fatal shooting in a village near the town of Aparan in Armenia’s Aragatsotn Province on Saturday staged a protest outside the Aparan police station, demanding a fair probe into the case. Two Aparan residents, Hmayak Mikaelyan and Tigran Harutyunyan, were killed and five others wer...

The National Security Service of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) has uncovered a high treason case involving a serviceman of the Defense Army. The man, identified only by his initials L.G., who is an Artsakh citizen, communicated with foreign intelligence services via social media and transferred classified military secrets to them...

A police van caught fire during opposition protests demanding the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Monday. A video shared by Pastinfo showed smoke coming out of the vehicle intended for taking opposition protesters to police stations. As a result, police officers had to remove the demonstrators from the car and pu...

The parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 war in Artsakh, who demand criminal charges against Nikol Pashinyan, were summoned to the Investigative Committee of Armenia for questioning on Thursday. The parents of 15 fallen soldiers were expected to be questioned. They claim that Pashinyan publicly admitted deliberatel...

Nikol Pashinyan could not serve as acting prime minister of Armenia after stepping down on April 25, since the resignation “implies removal of a person from office amid public pressure”, lawyer Ara Zohrabyan, a member of the Zartonk (Awakening) National Christian Party, said in his closing remarks at the Constitutional Court he...