Samvel Karapetyan

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[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Russia has defended the track record of Armenia’s national electric utility owned by jailed Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan but stopped short of explicitly criticizing the company’s controversial[...]

YEREVAN (OC-Media.org) — Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) has voted to revoke the electricity distribution license of the country’s main power grid operator, the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA),[...]

Narek Karapetyan, the nephew of jailed Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan, this week appeared on the talk show of influential far-right US pundit and conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson to discuss his[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — The Armenian Apostolic Church is undaunted by the arrests of two more of its priests, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II said on Sunday, October 19, after[...]

Nobel laureate and prominent economist Daron Acemoglu has agreed to serve as an adviser to Our Way, the political movement founded by detained Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan. In a video[...]

By Gayane Saribekian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — An Armenian appeals court upheld on Monday, September 8, a lower court’s decision to extend the pre-trial arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, who is[...]

By Arshaluys Barseghyan YEREVAN (OC-Media) — On Monday, August 11, the lawyers of detained Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan announced that the Armenian Court of Criminal Appeals decided that Karapetyan’s arrest[...]

In all countries, individuals accused of crimes face lawsuits. If convicted, they serve their sentences. However, until a court issues a verdict, no one has the right to label these[...]

By Yousef Bardouka Samvel Karapetyan, a Russian–Armenian billionaire detained on charges of making calls for the overthrow of the government, has announced plans to create a “fundamentally new political force” through[...]