[ last updated 15:57 ] A leading international human rights organization has expressed “deep concern” at the fate of three Armenian army conscripts controversially sentenced to life imprisonment for a double murder which they insist they did not commit.
[ last updated 16:51 ] Two colleagues of an assassinated senior official at the Armenian government’s tax collection agency were arrested late Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a car bombing that killed him last week, law-enforcement sources told RFE/RL.
[ last updated 16:06 ] Prime Minister Andranik Markarian brushed aside on Wednesday corruption accusations that have been leveled against his embattled Environment Minister Vartan Ayvazian by a U.S. company mining gold and other metals in Armenia.
[ last updated 16:09 ] A U.S. senator put a hold Tuesday on the nomination of Richard Hoagland to be ambassador to Armenia to protest the Bush administration's refusal to classify the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.
[ last updated 16:11 ] A parliament deputy from the governing Republican Party (HHK) claimed on Wednesday that allegations about the growing role of “criminal elements” in Armenia’s political life are part of a “smear campaign” waged against the HHK.
[ last updated 15:56 ] “Everyone, from the most thick-necked oligarch to the most hungry tramp, is unhappy with the existing situation,” writes “Aravot."
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