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Armenian police said on August 29 that they have detained a Russian national at the request of the U.S. government after being informed the man was wanted in the United States on charges of money laundering and illegally transferring military technology from the United States to an undisclosed foreign country.
A court in Yerevan has granted bail to a leading member of the opposition Heritage party, who was charged in connection with a recent rally.
An Armenian court has found Russian Army Private Valery Permyakov guilty of murder charges and sentenced him to life imprisonment for the 2015 killing of seven members of an Armenian family.
A court in Armenia has rejected more appeals filed by some of the three dozen members of an armed group that seized and held a police station in Yerevan last month.
A Yerevan appeals court has granted bail to another leading member of the Heritage opposition party who was charged in connection with his participation at a recent rally.
An Armenian court has finished hearings in the high-profile case of a Russian soldier accused of killing an Armenian family of seven.
A Yerevan appeals court has granted bail to the deputy chairman of the opposition Heritage party, who was charged in connection with a recent rally.
Armenia's opposition Heritage party has pulled out of local elections because of the recent arrests of its three leading members.
An Armenian prosecutor has demanded a life sentence for a Russian soldier charged with killing a family of seven.
The remaining opposition gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan have laid down their arms, ending a two-week standoff with the Armenian authorities, which has left two police officers dead.
Armenian security forces have shot and wounded three gunmen in a continuing standoff with an armed opposition group barricaded inside a police compound in Yerevan.
Armenian Health Minister Armen Muradyan on July 27 was blocked by police from trying to meet with a group of gunmen who are occupying a police building in Yerevan and have taken four medics hostage.
Thousands of demonstrators were marching in Yerevan late on July 25 in support of a group of gunmen who have occupied an Armenian police station for more than a week.
Armenia's National Security Service says that two out of four police officers held by gunmen in a police station in Armenia’s capital Yerevan were released on July 23.
Hundreds of Armenian protesters sympathetic to an armed opposition group holding hostages at a district police headquarters in Yerevan clashed with police on July 20 after their demand to provide food to the gunmen went unheeded by authorities.
Armenian police have deployed more personnel in front of a district police headquarters in the capital, Yerevan, where armed supporters of a jailed opposition leader have been holding several people hostage since July 17.
Gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group have freed three of seven hostages at an occupied Yerevan police station as a standoff with security forces enters a second day.
Armenian lawmakers have approved the cabinet's decision to join Russia's air-defense system amid protests by the opposition.
Pope Francis has arrived in Armenia for a three-day visit meant to further strengthen the Vatican’s relations with the country and the state-backed Armenian Apostolic Church.
Uzbek authorities have released from prison the lawyer of an ethnic Armenian man convicted of Islamic extremism.
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