[ last updated 15:34 ] Armenia’s parliament elected Tigran Torosian, a close ally of Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, as its new speaker on Thursday, completing the removal of his predecessor Artur Baghdasarian’s Orinats Yerkir party from the ruling coalition.
[ last updated 15:36 ] Three Armenian army soldiers are facing a life in prison, accused of a double murder which they say they did not commit and which their lawyers believe was the work of their military commander in Nagorno-Karabakh.
[ last updated 15:54 ] Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian insisted on Thursday that he was not behind the recent creation of a new political party that has staked a claim to a role in Armenia’s next government to be formed after next year’s parliamentary election.
[ last updated 15:32 ] "I am thinking about what will happen when there is another president [of Armenia]," President Robert Kocharian's wife Bella is quoted by "Hayastani Hanrapetutyun" as saying.