Yuri Khachaturov

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Armenian news site raided by police in wiretapping case

by OC Media

•2 min read

Police in Armenia raided the offices of local news site Yerevan.Today on Monday morning, according to local media. The search, which was still ongoing Monday afternoon, was related to recordings of phone conversations between two top security chiefs leaked online last week. The wiretapped conversations between Artur Vanetsyan, Director of the National Security Service (NSS), and Sasun Khachatryan, Head of the Special Investigative Service (SIS) suggested Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s dir

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Armenia

Armenia reassures Russia after criticism from Lavrov

by OC Media

•4 min read

Armenian officials have moved to reassure Russia over a spate of recent arrests in their ‘anti-corruption crackdown’. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticised the arrests on Tuesday, saying they contradict the new government’s declared commitment to abstain from pursuing their predecessors with ‘politically motivated’ charges. Lavrov expressed concern that after ‘solving the political crisis in May through a compromise involving the leading parties’ — something they welcomed ‘with