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Armenia is celebrating its newest holiday after a bill designating the last Saturday in April as Citizen's Day was adopted by the Armenian parliament earlier this month.
An Armenian court has rejected an appeal by former President Robert Kocharian to end his pretrial detention.
The United Nations, European Union, and local rights groups have expressed concerns about "hate speech" directed toward Armenia's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community following reports of death threats against a transgender woman who spoke in the country's National Assembly.
A Russian soldier charged with beating an Armenian woman to death will remain in custody on the premises of the Russian military base in Armenia's northwestern city of Gyumri, a local court has ruled.
A court in Yerevan on Friday has extended by two months the pretrial detention of Robert Kocharian, a lawyer for the former Armenian president said after the court session on March 15.
An Armenian demining officer recently deployed to Syria has been seriously wounded while clearing landmines near Aleppo.
Armenia is marking the 11th anniversary of a bloody 2008 crackdown on protesters who were then challenging the official result of the country’s presidential election that year.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has called on all Armenians to mark the 11th anniversary of the deadly repression of the 2008 postelection protests with "a powerful civil march" in Yerevan.
An Armenian politician stirs a long-simmering pot with a call for the country's national hymn to be replaced by its Soviet analog.
The United States has indicated it does not support Armenia's participation in a Russia-backed mission in war-ravaged Syria, where Yerevan has dispatched demining experts and other personnel.
Armenian investigators have filed a new bribe-taking charge against former President Robert Kocharian, who was previously charged with violating the country's constitutional system.
Turkey has denounced French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to set April 24 as a day to commemorate the "Armenian genocide" as political manipulation.
Nikol Pashinian has been appointed to a second term as prime minister of Armenia after his political alliance scored a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections.
A 23-year-old soldier serving at a Russian military base in Armenia has been charged with beating an Armenian woman to death, lawyers for the victims' daughter say.
A Russian soldier has been arrested as a suspect in the beating death of a woman in northwestern Armenia. The incident has again has again caused outrage in the city of Gyumri after past killings by soldiers from a Russian military base there.
The whereabouts of a Russian soldier arrested in Armenia over the killing of a local woman have been unknown for days.
Armenian authorities say they have detained a Russian soldier on suspicion of killing a woman in the northwestern city of Gyumri.
Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections respected fundamental freedoms and were characterized by “broad public trust” and “genuine competition,” international observers say, calling for further electoral reforms to preserve public trust.
Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political rival, Serzh Sarkisian, were among early voters in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, in snap parliamentary elections on December 9. The landmark vote comes after a peaceful change of government prompted by April protests.
Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s alliance scored a landslide victory in Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections, capturing more than 70 percent of the vote and giving the Caucasus nation what he called a "revolutionary majority."
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