October, 2013

• 29 October

  

  Unsolved Murder of Dashnak Village Head Hrach Muradyan Sparks Outcry

  According to demonstrators, the 2010 attempted murder of Karabakh War veteran, ARF-D member, and Proshyan village head Hrach Muradyan and...
• 29 October

  

  Website that Defamed Women’s Resource Center Refuses to Publish Retraction

  The dispute between the Women’s Resource Center of Armenia (WRCA) and the website Zaruhi.com, which began last year, has not been resolved.
• 29 October

  

  Not Premeditated Murder: Army Conscript Says He’s Innocent

  Army conscript David Khachatryan, accused of the May. 15, 2013 murder of fellow conscript Lyuks Stepanyan in a military unit in the town of Noyemberyan, does not admit his guilt...
• 28 October

  

  Army Generals Inquire about Increase in Soldiers’ Salaries

  According to RA First Deputy Minister of Finance Pavel Safaryan, the increase in allocations is due to higher wages and an increase in the price of gas...
• 28 October

  

  Armenian PM Explains Why He Wants to Abolish Unemployment Benefits

  Unemployment benefits neither helped solve social problems nor created jobs, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said in parliament today
• 28 October

  

  Prisoner Sews his Mouth Shut, Insists He’s Innocent

  Karen Kungortsev, 22, charged with the murder of Yerevan resident, David Hovakimyan, 15, shut his mouth shut on Sunday in the Vanadzor penitentiary...
• 26 October

  

  Armenia Ranks Poorly in Gender Equality

  Iceland, Finland, and Norway are at the top of the list of 136 countries, where gender equality has been considered in the areas of political participation...
• 25 October

  

  ‘Button-Pressing’ MPs’ Salaries Shouldn’t Increase: Postanjyan

  Zaruhi Postanjyan, head of the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, considers the bill to increase the salaries of high-ranking officials (the president, the prime minister, ministers and MPs) to be discriminatory.
• 25 October

  

  Armenian MP Develops his Business in Georgia in Violation of the Law: Paper

  Georgian TV station Monitor yesterday broadcast an investigation into Armenian MP Vardan Ayvazyan’s forays into pisciculture carried out with violations of the law...
• 24 October

  

  VIDEO: ‘Know Your Enemy’: Putin’s Image Outside the Armenian Parliament

  A local art activist group called Hakaharvats ("Counter Blow") at 5 pm today stuck a poster with Russian President Vladimir Putin's image on it and...