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Armenia Armenia’s former Deputy Health Minister and current Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Gevorg Simonyan is being held in pre-trial detention after being arrested last week on charges of embezzling funds. Investigators from Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee […]

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Armenia Armenia’s Court of Appeals has ordered a new investigation into the death of a pregnant woman hit by a police car escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s motorcade in April 2022. Sona Mnatsakanyan, 28, was […]

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Armenia A Russian man prosecuted for protesting the war in Ukraine was detained at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport this week. Russian authorities opened a criminal investigation into Nikita Kamensky after he painted anti-war graffiti in a […]