Russia-based Azerbaijani billionaire businessman Telman Ismailov has been charged with the 2004 attempted kidnapping of pop singer Avraam Russo. Ismailov’s cousin Zaur Mardanov is also charged, Meydan reports.
All former presidents of Armenia: Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan will be invited to participate in the Independence Day celebrations, Chief of Staff of PM Nikol Pashinyan’s administration Eduard Aghajanyan told RFE/RL’s Armenian service – Azatutyun.
The Seismic Protection Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia has detected a minor earthquake in the territory of the country at 22:18, September 17.
The Human Rights Defender’s Office has launched a discussion proceeding regarding the search operations carried out by the investigative committee at the head office of Yerevan Today – a Yerevan-based online news media outlet.
Yerevan Today Editor-In-Chief Sevak Hakobyan has commented on the search operations which were carried out in the head office of the news media outlet by police and investigative committee detectives.
A court has set a 5,000,000 dram (roughly $ 10,000) bail for the release of Mayor of Masis Davit Hambardzumyan from pre-trial detention.
Six defendants in the ongoing trial of the “Nork Marash Armed Group” case have been released from pre-trial detention today by a Yerevan court.
The Investigative Committee continues the investigation into the criminal case on the wiretapping of the phone conversation between National Security Service director Arthur Vanetsyan and Special Investigative Service director Sasun Khachatryan.
The mothers of fallen soldiers of the April 2016 Four-Day War are joining the “Women For Peace” initiative of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s wife Anna Hakobyan, the mother of captain Armenak Urfanyan said at a meeting with Mrs. Hakobyan.
The office of the Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) has received reports that the Azerbaijani military has once again attacked border towns in Tavush province with cross-border shooting during September 13-15.
