Armenia has expressed “serious concern” regarding the latest incidents in Baghdad which have led to human loses, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The killing of Iran’s top security and intelligence commander Qassim Suleimani by the United States is “for all practical purposes a declaration of war”, according to Robert Malley, the president and CEO of the International Crisis Group who served as White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region under President Barack Obama.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on New Year and Christmas, the PM’s office said.
The Chairman of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan has been charged by the Special Investigations Service (SIS) under Paragraph 2, Article 308 (Abuse of power that has caused serious consequences), SIS spokesperson Marina Ohanjanyan said.
A Bek Air plane with 93 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday shortly after taking off, killing at least 14 people, authorities in the Central Asian country said, Reuters reported.
The Armenian Armed Forces have carried out a lot of works in the past months to strengthen military bases, expand road construction which allows saving time for troop redistribution, Chief of General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Artak Davtyan told reporters at a press conference.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the Cabinet meeting today that in many cases the government must admit that law enforcement agencies are carrying out unjustified aggressiveness towards people.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has signed into law the bill on introducing the voluntary early retirement mechanism for Constitutional Court justices that was adopted by parliament earlier.
“The video released by the Police of Armenia clearly showed that the police had inserted a character in the video and that there was going to be a sequel, and it was shown soon enough. It was planned so that there would be a development later. I was almost certain that they were going to summon Armen Tavadyan, who has said several times that he is a friend of Robert Kocharyan and is working actively for his friend’s release from prison. This was a video that was made through dirty propaganda tricks. It was so obvious, and it was a sloppy job. They didn’t even have a screenwriter to make a normal video,” Harutyun Harutyunyan said, adding that this is also a blow to Fifth Channel television company.
Actor Sargis Grigoryan, who recently caused uproar after becoming one of the signatories of a petition to change the pre-trial measure for second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, has addressed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Instagram.
