The International Court of Justice has given Armenia and Azerbaijan a deadline of November 12, 2025 to submit counter-arguments regarding the violation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. According to the Court, it is about the case initiated by Azerbaijan against Armenia based on the complaint submitted on September 23, 2021. It is reported that taking into account the order of January 21, 2022, by which the Court has set January 23, 2023 and January 23, 2024 as the appropriate dates for submission of arguments by Azerbaijan and counter-arguments by Armenia. As noted in the report, taking into account the argument of Azerbaijan, which was submitted within the time limit thus established, and the preliminary objections raised by Armenia on April 21, 2023, the submission of preliminary objections by Armenia led to the suspension of the consideration of the case on the merits. By its decision of November 12, 2024, the Court found itself competent to examine the application submitted by Azerbaijan, excluding Azerbaijan's claims related to the alleged actions that took place before September 15, 1996. Therefore, the Court set the deadline for submission of counterarguments by Armenia to November 12, 2025 and announced that it reserves the further procedure for a further decision. Let's remind that earlier, on September 16, 2021, Armenia started a trial at the International Court of Justice against Azerbaijan in relation to the violation of the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia Anna Vardapetyan, as part of her working visit to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, met the President of the European Union Criminal Justice Agency (Eurojust) Ladislav Hamran in The Hague on November 6, 2024. Anna Vardapetyan thanked the President of Eurojust for the warm reception and emphasized that the third meeting within a year is a proof of the developing interaction between the two structures. The RA Prosecutor General highlighted the cooperation agreement between Armenia and Eurojust signed in Brussels on April 5, 2024, which was ratified by the RA National Assembly on September 10, and on September 23, Armenia signed a working agreement with Eurojust. Let's remind that the Agreement envisages the possibility of sending a Prosecutor of Commonwealth Affairs from Armenia to Eurojust. Representation of the Prosecutor's Office in Eurojust will provide an opportunity to ensure operational communication with contact persons of EU member states and third countries, will provide an opportunity to implement more effective international legal cooperation with criminal proceedings initiated in the Republic of Armenia. During the meeting, the parties discussed the ongoing work towards the implementation of the Agreement and referred to other issues of mutual interest. During his visit to Eurojust, the Prosecutor General of RA also had meetings with the representatives of Italy and Greece at Eurojust.

In the framework of the March 1 criminal case, the relatives of Gegham Petrosyan, the former deputy commander of the police forces and the former chief of staff, who received the status of an accused for intentionally taking the life of Zakar Hovhannisyan, raised the question of bringing to justice the person who gave false testimony against him in the anti-corruption committee. As it is known, Gegham Petrosyan was charged under part 1 of Article 104 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia (Murder: unlawfully taking another person's life on purpose). The Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia informed that within the framework of the criminal case being investigated by the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia regarding the events that took place between March 1-2, 2008 in the city of Yerevan, the deputy commander of the RA police forces was arrested and detained as of March 1, 2008, on the suspicion of committing the crime provided for in Article 104, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, of intentionally taking the life of Zakar Hovhannisyan with the use of a firearm. Gegham Petrosyan, who held the position of chief of staff. As a result, after four years of investigation, however, the law enforcement officers decided to close the case. The prosecutor's office found Gegham Petrosyan, the accused in the March 1 case, the former head of the police headquarters, innocent. He was the only one who was charged with murder for killing Zakar Hovhanisyan during the demonstrations. The point is that a specific police officer had testified against him, and the relatives, applying to the anti-corruption committee, demanded that the employee be held accountable, but the committee has not made the application of the relatives the subject of investigation, and at least it has not taken action against the person who testified against Gegham Petrosyan for perjury."

The court ordered house arrest for Yervand Aghabalyan, a participant of the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement, for a period of 2 months. Lawyer Roman Balayan reports this. "The petition of the investigator was so baseless that the North Korean court would not even accept it. But John Hayrapetyan, one of the judges of our "democratic" country, decided to place house arrest against the father of 1 and 3-year-old children, the son of retired and sick parents, and finally the sole breadwinner of a forcefully displaced family, depriving him of the opportunity to feed the family, in the absence of legal and factual grounds. Why? Because, according to the pre-investigative body, Yervand, witnessing the scene of one of the protesters' hand being torn, dared to throw an empty plastic bottle at the police. In addition, the judge and the investigator officially assume that the actions of disobedience in Armenia may continue, and Yervand, participating in them, commits a new crime. There are so many legal problems in this sentence and the judicial act that was made, that using it as a source, 3 dissertations can be written on the topic of "what the judicial act should not be like," the defense attorney wrote. Let's remind: Yervand Aghababyan was arrested at the meeting of the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement, after the events that took place on June 12.

Former MP of RA Arman Tatoyan referred to the statement of NA Speaker Alen Simonyan to the Church, in which he raised the issue of taxing the Church. "The government is already in the National Assembly openly demonstrating its intentions of persecuting the Armenian National Church, which has the constitutional status of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, using the "opportunity". Starting from the first period of coming to power, the facts of doing this to the Church as an institution are obvious When in 2018 The initiators of the "New Armenia, New Patriarch" movement carried out political actions against the Mother See in the courtyard of St. Anna and St. Catholic Churches. In response to the petitions, the authorities reasoned that this area is of public importance and these actions are legal. Today, it is announced in the Parliament that the gatherings organized by His Excellency Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan in that same place are unacceptable. 2018 the violent invasion of a group of people into the Mother See Holy Etchmiatsin Divanatun with the apparent indulgence of the government. The attack on the Catholicos of All Armenians, the blockade of the car and threats with stones. For security reasons, the removal of the police escort of the car serving the Catholicos of All Armenians. Discrediting assessments of the church and clergy with impermissible vocabulary and insults to dignity and reputation. The "threat to subject the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church to taxation" has already been responded to by the Holy Etchmiadzin Mother See," Tatoyan wrote.

Remote work in Armenia should be regulated at the legislative level. RA Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Ruben Sargsyan said this today, on September 12, during the discussion of the bill "On Amendments to the Labor Code" in the National Assembly. According to the deputy minister, remote work will be possible from now on both in the public and private sector. "At the moment, there is a rule regulating remote work in the law, but it only applies to crisis situations," Sargsyan explained. He also presented international statistics. For example, studies conducted in the US labor market showed that in February 2023, about 20% of employees were already working from offices. Meanwhile, the rest - about 80% - work either fully remote or hybrid. The same trend is observed in Europe. The draft envisages that remote work will be carried out with the mutual consent of the employee and the employer. True, provided that the nature of this particular work allows it to be done in such a format. During the performance of work obligations, the employee undertakes by mutual agreement to ensure their proper performance, as well as his availability to the employer. Failure of the employee to comply with the above requirements will be considered as a violation of labor discipline.

The RA Administrative Court, presided over by Judge Mher Petrosyan, invalidated the decision made by the Council of the Chamber of Advocates of RA to subject Seda Safaryan to disciplinary action against lawyer Aramazd Kiviryan on the basis of Danos. Aramazd Kiviryan wrote about this on his Facebook page. "At the time, I provided judicial representation in a number of civil cases, in which Seda Safaryan, a lawyer at the time and currently a judge of the Supreme Court, was the representative of the opponent. I would like to clarify that I have always represented the interests of a family, one of whose former members, on whose behalf Seda Safaryan acted, decided to initiate lawsuits against that family, and naturally I continued to protect the interests of that family, moreover, having the written consent of the former family member that I am authorized to represent the interests of any person, even if there is a conflict of interest. During that same period, the RA Chamber of Advocates started a campaign against a number of lawyers, including me. Dozens of disciplinary proceedings were initiated, decisions were made to impose disciplinary responsibility. It was almost the same situation as today in the Republic of Belarus. And here, having lost all court cases and taking advantage of the RA Chamber of Advocates' desire to exert pressure, Seda Safaryan decided to initiate disciplinary proceedings against me and submit a disciplinary report (hereinafter: Klyauza or Danos) to the RA Chamber of Advocates, where, naturally, taking advantage of the opportunity, he did not wait long for the decision to subject me to disciplinary responsibility. The decision made by the Chamber was appealed in a court order, then, based on the position expressed by the RA Court of Cassation, that similar cases are subject to examination in the RA administrative procedure, the examination of the case was transferred to the RA Administrative Court.

The Russian-Armenian-Azerbaijani tripartite meeting of the chief prosecutors was held in Saint Petersburg. This was reported by the press service of the RF Ministry. Today in St. Petersburg, welcoming the foreign guests to the regular meeting in a trilateral format, Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov noted that its holding in the Tauride Palace, where many fateful decisions were made over the past centuries, gives all the opportunities for success. The event was the fifth meeting held in a similar format since 2021. The previous Russian-Armenian-Azerbaijani tripartite meeting took place in December 2022 in Moscow, during which the heads of the prosecutor's offices of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan discussed the prospects of cooperation. Appreciating the mutual willingness to continue the professional dialogue, Igor Krasnov thanked both sides for the constructive approach to establishing further cooperation. "As you know, another meeting of our heads of state took place a month ago. At the meeting, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia agreed to work out mutually acceptable solutions on a number of topical issues related to the regulation of life support in the border region, Igor Krasnov emphasized. - In this regard, I consider it extremely important that we continue to maintain permanent ties, follow the progress of the implementation of the agreements reached, in order to realize the problems of peace, security and stable economic development of the region, stabilization of Azerbaijani-Armenian relations. The head of the Russian control agency noted that such events are a bright example of a civilized way to solve even the most difficult problems, contribute to the goals of restoring law and order, normalizing the lives of civilians and preventing the emergence of new security threats. "In this regard, I propose to synchronize our actions more, using the full potential of human rights prosecutors, focusing first of all on the interests of citizens," said Igor Krasnov. The Prosecutor General of Russia emphasized. "I personally and all my subordinates, including the military prosecutors stationed in the border zone, will continue to provide the necessary assistance to ensure constructive interaction between the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides. At the same time, I see the prevention of the increase in tension as the main problem. I am sure that with joint efforts we will be able to create safe conditions for the harmonious development of the region and a dignified life for all those who live in it."