Five people have been arrested in an ongoing investigation into an April 22 incident when masked men attacked demonstrators in a Yerevan intersection. Mayor of Masis Davit Hambardzumyan and his deputy are among the arrested,.
A criminal case was initiated in Aragatsotn Regional Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee on the armed incident that took place on May 27 in the village of Karbi. In the result of urgent measures circumstances significant for the criminal case were found out, one person was arrested.
Preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated on murder of the resident of Alaverdi town K. Piruzyan was completed in General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee. On the base of the obtained sufficient evidence charge was pressed against two people for organizing and committing murder.
As part of anticorruption campaign the National Security Service of Armenia has exposed tax evasion mechanisms developed by the largest business entities of Armenia. The mechanism is based on the registration of hundreds of individual enterprises that are in fact engaged in false entrepreneurship.
The Yerevan Police Department (YPD) has launched a search for a missing minor.
Renowned English singer Sir Elton John, who arrived in Yerevan on Saturday, says that Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have initiated great changes in the country, and that he is happy to be a part of the “tsunami” of planned changes.
Students of Armenia’s UWC Dilijan had an anticipated guest for their graduation ceremony.
As Armenian schools were celebrating the traditional Last Bell on May 26, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan invited more than 100 school graduates from border towns to visit him at his official residence.
The “Amulsar Without Mine” initiative, a protest movement against Lydian’s Amulsar gold mine, rallied today in Yerevan. The rally began from the Mashtots Park with demonstrators marching towards the Presidential Residence to hand over a letter to President Sarkissian.
Soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Shamkhal Petrosyan, who was wounded on May 13 in one of the military units, is in stable condition.
