March, 2011

• 25 March

  

  Gyumri Marks Freedom of Speech Day Today

  NGO representatives, journalists, editors and other members of the press are invited to Armenia's second-largest city to mark the occasion.
• 24 March

  

  Raffi Hovannisian Gets His Tent. Police Didn’t Intervene

  At 6 pm today, as previously promised in a statement issued yesterday, a group of NGO workers and members of the public erected a...
• 24 March

  Armenian-Americans Urge US Ambassador to Intervene, Allow Tent to be Erected for Hunger-Striking MP

  In a letter addressed to US Ambassador to Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch, a group of Armenian-Americans under the initiative...
• 24 March

  

  Allies Step Up Bombing in Tripoli

  Intermittent explosions could be heard starting on Wednesday night local-time and lasting until dawn on Thursday.
• 24 March

  

  PACE Co-Rapporteurs Welcome Reforms in Armenia, But Stress Concrete Action

  The monitoring co-rapporteurs for Armenia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), John Prescott and Axel Fischer...
• 24 March

  

  ‘Dignity Friday’: Activists Use Social Networking Sites to Call for Massive Demos

  Pro-democracy demonstrators in Syria have called for mass protests across the country on Friday after security forces stormed a mosque...
• 24 March

  

  Mubarak Supporters and Opponents Clash in Cairo

  Hundreds of supporters and opponents of Egypt’s deposed leader have clashed in front of a court considering whether to...
• 24 March

  

  System of Providing Tractor Inspection Certificates to Reduce Corruption Risks: Armenian Government

  Today the Government of the Republic of Armenia approved a system of providing tractor inspection certificates and driving permits.
• 24 March

  

  Young Armenian Soldier Shoots Himself. Criminal Case Launched (updated)

  On the night of Mar. 21–22, in Hadrut military base, military recruit Jirayr Minasyan, 18, shot and injured himself with a machine gun.
• 24 March

  

  Analyst Doesn’t Consider Hovannisian’s ‘Inadequate’ Hunger Strike to be PR Stunt

  Political analyst Suren Surenyants considers such an extreme move by Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian to be inadequate in political terms.