Serzh Sargsyan

Prosecutor asks for Serzh Sargsyan’s release

Prosecutor asks for Serzh Sargsyan’s release

The trial in the criminal case of the Flash company, in which Serzh Sargsyan, the former President of Armenia and one of the instigators of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, is defendant, has reached a dead end in Yerevan

The tragedy in Khojaly - the beginning of the Karabakh war

The tragedy in Khojaly - the beginning of the Karabakh war

February 26 is one of the most tragic dates in the history of Azerbaijan. On this day in 1992, Armenian nationalists, with the support of mercenaries, captured the city of Khojaly, where they massacred Azerbaijanis, killing 613 people, including 106 women and 63 children, and capturing 1,275 Khojaly residents. Another 150 went missing and 5,379 citizens were expelled.

Why are they always looking for traitors in Armenia?

Why are they always looking for traitors in Armenia?

Mutual accusations have become one of the main elements of the political struggle in Armenia. Opponents call each other agents of foreign intelligence services, mainly Turkish, point to the short-sightedness and incompetence of the policy being …

Does the Armenian society need a new reality?

Does the Armenian society need a new reality?

There is a growing awareness of the need to bring the country out of years of isolation in the Armenian society. But the question is whether the Armenian political elite is ready to let its citizens out of the grip of nationalism and …

Pashinyan agreed to denazification of Armenia

Pashinyan agreed to denazification of Armenia

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan agreed to intensify struggle against discrimination based on ethnicity and language, the two leaders said in a joint statement, published by the Kremlin after their …

Azerbaijan puts Kocharyan and Sargsyan on wanted list

Azerbaijan puts Kocharyan and Sargsyan on wanted list

Azerbaijan has put Armenia's ex-presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan on the wanted list, the chief of the Special Investigation Department of the Republican Military Prosecutor's Office, Chief Justice Adviser Emil Tagiyev …

Crisis among Armenian nationalists

Crisis among Armenian nationalists

This week, the vice-speaker of the National Assembly (NA) Ruben Rubinyan, who participated in the meeting on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations on January 14 in Moscow caused a hail of criticism from the opposition factions of …

Sargsyan re-elected as Chairman of Republican Party

Sargsyan re-elected as Chairman of Republican Party

One of the instigators of the Karabakh conflict, ex-president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, was re-elected as the chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia, head of the counting commission of the RPA Georgy Gabrielyan informed. According …

Post-war Armenia: Amid instability and uncertainty

Post-war Armenia: Amid instability and uncertainty

The snap parliamentary elections of June 2021 have not resolved Armenia’s political crisis, one in which it has found itself since the 2020 war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh. A Russian-orchestrated ceasefire not only …

Europe’s chance for peace in the South Caucasus

Europe’s chance for peace in the South Caucasus

Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, announced on November 19 that in the margin of the Eastern Partnership Summit to be held in Brussels on December 15, there would be a meeting between Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

 Sargsyan charged with bribery

Sargsyan charged with bribery

Armenia’s former president Serzh Sargsyan, a war party and Karabakh klan representative,  has been charged with taking a bribe, an accusation his lawyers say was made to distract from a security crisis on the Azerbaijani border

Sargsyan summoned for questioning by Anti-Corruption Committee

Sargsyan summoned for questioning by Anti-Corruption Committee

One of the instigators of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has been summoned for questioning as a defendant, his lawyer Amram Makinyan revealed in a Facebook post on Monday. Back in 2018, …

Ilham Aliyev: it was Serzhik Sarkisyan who lost Karabakh war

Ilham Aliyev: it was Serzhik Sarkisyan who lost Karabakh war

It was the likes of one of the instigators of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Serzhik Sarkisyan who lost the Karabakh war, he now wants to blame the defeat on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said, …

Narek Sargsyan sentenced to 5.5 years in prison

Narek Sargsyan sentenced to 5.5 years in prison

A local court in Yerevan has sentenced Narek Sargsyan, the nephew of former president Serzh Sargsyan, to 5.5 years in prison. The criminal case against Narek Sargsyan was launched in June, 2018, by the National Security Service of …

Armenian experts consider rhetoric of politicians running for elections to be ridiculous and absurd

Armenian experts consider rhetoric of politicians running for elections to be ridiculous and absurd

The last time Armenians went to the polls, in 2018, they were voting optimistically. Following Nikol Pashinyan’s successful toppling of the old regime via street protests, voters gave him an overwhelming mandate for what promised to be a future of growing prosperity, rule of law and a defeat of corruption, and reducing the country’s dependence on Russia. Now, though, the picture is far more pessimistic