August, 2011

• 16 August

  

  4+3: Released HAK Activists Now Face Charges, Refused to Give Testimony

  Three Armenian National Congress (HAK) activists who were detained on Aug. 9 and arrested the following day have been charged with...
• 16 August

  

  Silent Dialogue: Opposition and Government Delegations Agree Not to Speak to the Press

  The 5th phase of the dialogue between delegations of the ruling coalition and the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), which lasted...
• 12 August

  

  Yerevan Papazyan St. Kiosks Demolished. Mayor Says Alternatives Must be Offered to Newly Unemployed

  Despite recent protests by owners of kiosks on Papazyan St. in the Armenian capital, demolition work on these kiosks is...
• 12 August

  

  Baku Authorities Demolish Human Rights Group Office in Nighttime Raid (PHOTOS)

  Authorities in Azerbaijan have demolished the office of a prominent human rights group that has led criticism of a radical facelift of...
• 12 August

  

  UN Office in Armenia Marks International Youth Day with Art Exhibit

  An art exhibition dedicated to International Youth Day aimed at motivating young people to change the world launched on...
• 12 August

  

  Armenian Man Killed after Attacking Estonia Defense Ministry (VIDEOS)

  Officials identified the attacker as Karen Drambjan, a 57-year-old lawyer born in Armenia who had Estonian citizenship since the...
• 11 August

  

  Yerevan Mayor’s Decision Trumps Armenia Prime Minister’s: Kiosk Demolition Continues (PHOTOS)

  Owners of more than a dozen stalls selling fruits and vegetables on the streets of Yerevan on Thursday marched from the...
• 11 August

  

  ‘Armenia’ Vessel Sails to Cyprus from Lebanon

  The Armenia, which had sailed from Egypt to Lebanon on Aug. 6, officially concluding the round-the-world journey it begun on May 28, 2009...
• 11 August

  

  Armenia Migration Results in Villages of Women Left Behind: BBC

  In many rural areas of the former Soviet Union, poverty and unemployment are forcing people to leave. But in Armenia it is men who are going...
• 8 August

  

  Yerevan Kiosk Owners Protest City Decision. City Council Members Suggest They Contact Levon Ter-Petrossian

  Several kiosk owners were gathered outside Yerevan City Hall early Monday morning, protesting the city's decision to dismantle their stalls.