Hundreds of angry people clashed with riot police outside the Russian consulate in the Armenian city of Gyumri late on Thursday on the second day of protests against the killing of a local family allegedly committed by a Russian soldier. (UPDATED)
Amid mounting anger in Gyumri, the Russian military on Thursday pledged to ensure “the most severe punishment” for one of its soldiers believed to have killed six members of a local Armenian family.
More than a thousand furious residents of Gyumri marched through Armenia’s second largest city on Wednesday to demand that a Russian soldier accused of killing six members of a local family be handed over to Armenian law-enforcement authorities. (UPDATED)
A runaway Russian soldier admitted murdering six members of an Armenian family in Gyumri after being detained overnight, a senior Armenian police official said on Tuesday.
A fugitive Russian soldier suspected of murdering six members of an Armenian family in Gyumri was reportedly detained on Monday night less than 24 hours after a manhunt launched for him in Armenia.
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia hunted on Monday for a Russian soldier suspected of shooting and killing six people, including one child, and wounding another near his military base in Gyumri. (UPDATED)
The Armenian government has refused to finance badly needed repairs of battered streets in Gyumri, sparking allegations of retribution against local residents who overwhelmingly voted against President Serzh Sarkisian’s reelection.
The latest decision by the Armenian government to pay for more expenses of a local Russian military base has fueled the ongoing debate about whether the host country should make such payments.
Armenia’s three main opposition parties rallied thousands of supporters in Gyumri on Wednesday, ending a two-week regional tour aimed at drumming up popular support for their larger anti-government protests planned in Yerevan.
Russian and Armenian troops simulated on Friday a joint operation against an imaginary enemy dubbed “Ottomania” by their commanders on the third day of their joint exercises held in central Armenia.
Armenia will capitalize on Russia’s controversial ban on food imports from the European Union and the United States to sharply increase exports of agricultural products and prepared foodstuffs to the Russian market, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian acknowledged widespread popular distrust in Armenia’s government and pledged to address it during a visit to the northwestern Shirak province on Wednesday.
A court in Gyumri on Tuesday sentenced four former employees of Armenia’s state pension fund to between 3 and 4 years’ imprisonment for embezzling 91.3 million drams ($220,000) in various social benefits.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) suffered a rare setback when the incumbent mayor of a village affiliated with it was defeated by an independent candidate in a local election held over the weekend.
The Armenian government appears to have frozen indefinitely the protracted reconstruction of Gyumri amid growing anger and frustration among hundreds of families in the country’s second largest lacking adequate housing more than 25 years after a catastrophic earthquake.
Hundreds of Russian and Armenian soldiers marched in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri on Friday in a joint parade that marked the 69th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War Two.
The first two residents of Kessab have taken refuge in Armenia and many others are said to be willing to do the same nearly two weeks after the historically Armenian-populated town in Syria was seized by Islamist rebels.
Armenia on Tuesday pointedly declined to react to Russian officials’ apparently unfounded claims that Syrian rebels shot and killed ethnic Armenians when they captured Kessab, a small town close to Syria’s border with Turkey.
The Armenian police on Monday pressed charges against a notoriously violent son of Gyumri’s controversial former Mayor Vartan Ghukasian who has reportedly threatened to assault the latter’s successor and bitter rival.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday pledged to strengthen Russia’s geopolitical presence in the South Caucasus and insisted that Armenia decided to join a Russian-led union of ex-Soviet states on its own. (UPDATED)
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