October, 2014

• 14 October

  

  Bargaining with Serzh Sargsyan: Pashinyan Speaks about Non-Ruling Party Rally

  “It’s important not to gather people with false promises, and not walk around an empty desert. The opposition and ruling authorities do not have the right to discourage the people. This is our approach...
• 13 October

  

  Counter-Attack Art Group Member Taken into Custody for Street Photo-Exhibit

  “They twisted my hands, sat me in the car, and kept trying to get into my pockets to take out my phone. When I sat down at the Police Precinct, they said “who let you sit down?”
• 13 October

  

  Armenia Signed the Eurasian Economic Union Accession Treaty

  “I believe that together we will be able to effectively conduct the process of Armenia's accession and minimize the risks for our country and maximize the overall benefit...
• 10 October

  

  Azerbaijan has Returned the Corpse of Karen Petrosyan back to Armenia

  Today, Azerbaijan has returned the corpse of Karen Petrosyan, who was taken captive on August 7. Epress.am was told by the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Yerevan office media spokesperson Zara Amatuni. The transfer took place near the Gazakh region’s Jafarli village in Azerbaijan, toward Ijevan, Armenia. Chinari village …
• 10 October

  

  Tailing Dump near Armenian Monastery is Polluting the Surrounding Area

  The Nazik tailing dump has exploited Akhtala’s ore-processing plant which is also in the village. The tailing dump has been conserved two times; the first time was in 1988, and the second in 2010...
• 10 October

  

  There is No Domestic Violence in Mother-Worshiping Armenia? “I Don’t Believe it.” (VIDEO)

  “I’m not married and there is no violence in my home, but I get an impression that all my neighbors have to start hitting each other, if there is such a level of gender imbalance...
• 10 October

  

  CoE HR Commissioner Doesn’t Know Yet If Shant Harutyunyan is a Political Prisoner or Not (VIDEO)

  According to Muižnieks, he did not discuss those issues with the President; however, he suggested that his Yerevan team should study incidents of officials violating the presumption of innocence. He believes...
• 9 October

  

  Armenian MP/Oligarch Doesn’t Want a ‘Maidan’

  “This solution, however, has another side; Russia needs an economically strong and quickly developing Armenia in the South Caucasus. I’m claiming that this is the best solution․․․
• 9 October

  

  Armenia Will be Obliged to Follow Imperial Rules: The Loss of Judicial Power

  “On paper, we had an action plan for the implementation of state obligations, which made it foreseeable, that within time we would at least have a situation in our judiciary where human rights would be protected...
• 9 October

  

  Azerbaijani’s Lawyer is Keeping Silent; Information on Tsakanyan’s Murder Case is kept Secret: Haykakan Zhamanak

  They killed my 17-year old son, what kind of state do we have? The Turks are coming in here, photographing themselves, doing what they want, why doesn’t the state know that there are Turks in the territory...