Law
16/09/2019 13:37Supreme Judicial Council representatives meet Venice Commission delegationDuring the meeting the parties discussed strategy of implementation of reforms in Armenia’s judicial-legal sector and in anti-corruption. The parties referred to the role of Venice Commission over the core issues of the judicial sector.
16/09/2019 12:12Cruelty against animals hence to be punished by lawThe lawmakers propose amendments in the Criminal legislation by adding an article “Cruel attitude toward animals” that will envisage punishment for cruel attitude toward animals.
16/09/2019 12:00Armenia’s NA speaker describes CC ruling biased and hastyThe chairman of the parliament also said that the CC has displayed an ungrounded hastiness in making the ruling, registering, in essence, that the ruling could have been quite another if not this hastiness.
14/09/2019 11:41Founder of Security Dream company released for bail: advocate“Alexan Zakaryan has been released for 20 million AMD bail,” the advocate said,
13/09/2019 15:49Government’s initiative on bank secrecy to result in serious explosion: ARF-D representative“It will result in taking money out, in keeping them in cash and which is the worst it will simply close the way for possible money entries for the state expecting foreign investments,” he said.
13/09/2019 10:31NSS declines Davit Sanasaryan’s petition to stop criminal persecution against himThe NSS investigator [in reality the supervisor] declined the grounded petition of my lawyers to stop the criminal persecution against me. He declined it with ungrounded reasons one of which says that my four witnesses were by subordinates, thus their testimonies are not reliable.
13/09/2019 10:22Contract serviceman commits suicide in Armenia’s Tavush regionHe said the hanged body of the serviceman was found in a barn.
12/09/2019 20:31Violation of bank secrecy big mistake: economist on government’s initiative“It is a big mistake. Big because in case the bank secrecy is endangered a big deformation, diversion will appear in financial flows,” the economist said, speaking to Aysor.am.
12/09/2019 19:22Court to announce decision over Kocharyan’s preventive measure on September 17Judge Anna Danibekyan left to the consultation room after today’s court trial.
12/09/2019 15:26Most shameful criminal case in Armenia’s history: Kocharyan about his case“The impression is that they did not lose any opportunity for violation. The violations were so many that they are of systematic nature. It is a personalized. It is political persecution. It is being done against a person who was president of Karabakh and Armenia,” he said.
12/09/2019 13:24Accusation against my father lack any murder, the accusation is empty: Levon Kocharyan“I want it to be clear for all, many do not want to go into details but I want to say that there are neither murders, nor orders to murder [in the accusations]. They confuse people on purpose,” Levon Kocharyan stated before the launch of the trial of the case against Robert Kocharyan.
11/09/2019 19:50Vitaly Balasanyan receives second writ to show up for interrogation in the sidelines of March 1 criminal caseIn the same application Balasanyan reported that he personally was not in Yerevan during March 1-2, 2008 unrest in Armenia’s capital and was getting familiarized with the situation via mass media.
11/09/2019 14:00Being in Russia does not mean having political asylum: Russia’s ambassador about Mihran PoghosyanAsked about former head of investigative group on March 1 criminal case Vahagn Harutyunyan who is also in Russia, Kopirkin said he cannot answer the question and urged to apply to corresponding bodies.
11/09/2019 11:28Parliament backs legislative initiative relating to traffic security at first readingThe package was backed by 115 lawmakers, including those from opposition factions.
09/09/2019 12:15Armenia’s Prosecutor’s General Office refrains from commenting on CC’s ruling over Kocharyan’s case“There are legal positions in the CC ruling which clearly say that as of now Kocharyan has been kept in custody and criminally persecuted illegally,” Hayk Alumyan said.