Samvel Karapetyan
By Arshaluys Barseghyan Former President Robert Kocharyan and Strong Armenia Alliance leader Narek Karapetyan have filed separate lawsuits against Armenian state institutions, as political and legal disputes continue following June’s[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his Civil Contract party won Armenia’s weekend parliamentary elections with just under half of the vote, according to their preliminary official results[...]
By Arshaluys Barseghyan YEREVAN (oc-media.org) —Armenia’s Central Elections Commission has rejected an appeal to revoke the registration of the opposition Strong Armenia alliance, a day before key parliamentary elections. The group[...]
By Karine Simonian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Ten more supporters of billionaire and opposition leader Samvel Karapetyan were arrested over the weekend after confronting members of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party[...]
WATERTOWN/PARIS — Earlier this year, a new organization came to be in Armenia, called the International Observatory for Democracy in Armenia (IODA), an independent, ad hoc monitoring body which has[...]
By Arshaluys Barseghyan Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appeared to accuse his opponent, the detained Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan, of being a “foreign agent,” claiming that the authorities have[...]
By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Amid opposition allegations of foul play, Armenia’s ruling party hastily pushed through the parliament on Tuesday, April 7, legislation that banned billionaire Samvel Karapetyan[...]
WATERTOWN — Issues that on the surface appear to pertain to domestic Armenian politics have appeared frequently in international fora and media and conversely internationally known figures have become involved[...]
By Arshaluys Barseghyan Detained Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan, who faces multiple charges in Armenia, was named prime ministerial candidate of his newly formed Strong Armenia party on February 12. The[...]
By Arshaluys Barseghyan Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan has been released on bail and placed under house arrest after spending more than six months in pre-trial detention. He was charged in[...]