October, 2013

• 21 October

  

  Armenia’s Corrupt Elite Hampers Economic Development: Report

  A report published today by an international think tank finds that the negative impact of corruption on Armenia’s economy is “substantial” and major companies are involved in that process.
• 21 October

  

  VIDEO: Armenian Activists Interrupt Conference on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance

  A group of peaceful activists staged a protest in Yerevan today during a “High Level Conference on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Europe” organized by the Council of Europe.
• 18 October

  

  Armenian National Accused of Podolsk Bus Crash Health Improved, Moved to Butyrka Prison

  Armenian national Hrachya Harutyunyan, the driver accused of causing a fatal bus accident near the Russian village of Podolsk earlier this year, has been moved to another detention facility.
• 18 October

  

  Another Car Belonging to Opposition Activist Vandalized

  Member of the Pre-Parliament civic initiative and the pressure group “Let’s liberate the monument from the oligarch” Karo Yeghnukyan’s second vehicle was vandalized on the night of Oct. 17.
• 18 October

  

  Conscript ‘Inflicts Himself with Fatal Gunshot Wound’: Defense Ministry

  Military conscript Ruben Davtyan at around 1:30 pm on Oct. 18 “inflicted himself with a fatal gunshot wound” from the weapon he was carrying, reports the RA Ministry of Defense.
• 18 October

  

  How an Armenian Oligarch Pays Taxes

  Alex Grig, one of the companies owned by oligarch, Republican Party of Armenia MP Samvel Aleksanyan, has leased another company also belonging to Aleksanyan, Lusastgh Sugar.
• 17 October

  

  Armenian Government Violates Procedure for Implementing ECHR Rulings

  Since 2010, oversight procedures in the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, which supervises the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgments, have changed...
• 17 October

  

  ‘Justice to Tigran Araqelyan’ Art Seen on Northern Avenue (VIDEO)

  After a six-month break, the art group "Counter Blow" made a come back with a poster stuck on a wall on Northern Ave. in central Yerevan...
• 17 October

  

  OSCE Monitoring of Karabakh Frontline Stopped Because of Shooting

  “A planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan to be conducted by the OSCE Mission in the Hadrut direction, scheduled for October 17, was stopped...
• 17 October

  

  Ethnic Azeri Man Released After Being Held for 2 Months in Armenia

  Armenia has released Allahverdi Pelengov, an ethnic Azeri and a citizen of the Republic of Georgia, who was held for two months by the RA National Security Service.