Hundreds of people attended a church service in Gyumri on Monday to pay their respects to Kirk Kerkorian, the Armenian-American billionaire who has built thousands of homes in Armenia’s second largest city ravaged by a 1988 earthquake.
A Russian soldier serving at Russia’s military base in Armenia was arrested on Monday on suspicion of killing a fellow serviceman.
A senior Russian official has reaffirmed President Vladimir Putin’s decision to participate in the April 24 official ceremonies in Yerevan that will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
A Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri will be tried in Armenia but by a Russian military court, a senior Russian pro-government lawmaker insisted on Sunday.
An activist of the Armenian opposition movement Founding Parliament was stabbed at the weekend as government loyalists attempted to disrupt a rally held by it in Gyumri.
Law-enforcement authorities in Gyumri are looking into a weekend gunfight in a central city place that left at least six people wounded.
Activists of a radical opposition movement seeking regime change in Armenia cancelled their planned “automobile march” and rally in the country’s second largest city on Saturday as they claimed to possess information about authorities’ planning provocations against them.
Russia has officially reaffirmed its refusal to extradite to Armenia a Russian soldier accused of murdering the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri earlier this year.
Hundreds of angry taxi drivers blocked the main squares of Yerevan and Gyumri with their cars on Monday in protest against new taxation rules introduced by the Armenian government.
Armenian authorities have presented a photocopy of an official document sent from Russia acknowledging the receipt of Yerevan’s formal request for the transfer to Armenian custody of a Russian soldier accused of killing seven members of a single family in Armenia last month.
Relatives of a seven-member family that was massacred in Gyumri last month demand that the Russian soldier charged with the murders be handed over to Armenian authorities.
A man arrested for his role in last month’s violent protest near the Russian consulate in Gyumri was set free on Friday just hours before scores of people were due to rally in Armenia’s second largest city to demand his release.
In a move that could reignite tensions in Gyumri, the Armenian police made on Wednesday the first arrest in their investigation into last month’s unrest which followed the slaughter of a local family blamed on a Russian soldier.
Armenia has formally asked Russia to extradite a Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri.
Angry street protests in Gyumri could reignite if Russian authorities fail to hand over a Russian soldier charged with killing seven members of a local family to Armenian law-enforcement bodies, a senior Armenian clergyman warned on Monday.
A Russian parliamentary delegation on Friday visited Gyumri and laid flowers to on the fresh graves of the seven members of local Armenian family who died in a killing spree blamed on a Russian soldier.
Thousands of mourners in Gyumri attended on Wednesday the funeral of a six-month-old Armenian boy who died of his injuries one week after a brutal attack that left the six other members of his family dead.
Russian and Armenian law-enforcement authorities agreed on Tuesday to coordinate their separate investigations into the killing of seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri blamed on a Russian soldier.
The Armenian police tightened security around key government buildings and Russian facilities in Gyumri on Monday in an apparent anticipation of fresh protests against the slaughter of a local family blamed on a Russian soldier.
The Armenian police guarded Russia’s military and diplomatic facilities in Gyumri on Friday one day after clashing with local residents protesting against a deadly shooting spree allegedly perpetrated by a Russian soldier.
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