Police station siege: 2 arrested over obstruction of journalists’ activitiesAugust 12, 2016 - 13:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian court ruled to use arrest as a preventive measure against Vladimir M. and Seyran K. for prevention of journalists’ professional legal actions and hooliganism on the night of July 29-30 at Yerevan’s Sari Tagh district, Armenia’s Special Investigation Service said. According to the SIS press service, the investigator presented a motion to choose arrest as a preventive measure against the perpetrators on August 11. SIS will continue preliminary investigation of the criminal case, initiated under part 1 of Article 308 (abuse of official position), part 2 of Article 309 (failure of official position coupled with assault) and Article 164 (prevention of journalists professional legal actions) over the incidents in Yerevan’s Sari Tagh district on the night of July 29-30. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |