July, 2014

• 28 July

  

  Armenian Online News Media Mainly Intolerant of LGBT Community: Report

  Studying Armenian online news media articles, New Generation NGO discovered that 65–70% of them contained negative treatment, hate speech and aggression...
• 25 July

  

  Armenian Defense Ministry Claims Information Requested by NGO is “State Secret”

  Ministry of Defense representative Manik Santrosyan said that the information requested by the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office contains...
• 25 July

  

  Eurasian Economic Union Project Won’t Become a Reality, Says Jirair Sefilian: Hetq.am

  "Russia seeks to persuade or oblige Azerbaijan to join the EEU and, in all likelihood, the Russian side has decided that Armenia's entry into the EEU must be...
• 25 July

  

  Defendant in “Gang Case” Transferred to Psychiatric Ward

  Defendant in the "gang case" Kyaram Amoyan about a month ago was transferred to the psychiatric ward of the Hospital for Convicts.
• 25 July

  

  Will Moscow Get a “Thank You” From Yerevan, Astana, Bishkek, Dushanbe, and Minsk?

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to recognize the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) as a military-political alliance, thus justifying...
• 25 July

  

  Armenian President Against Idea of Arming Residents of Border Villages

  Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is opposed to the idea of arming residents of rural settlements close to the border with Azerbaijan.
• 25 July

  

  Armenian Government’s “Latest Perversion”: Opposition MP on Selling Nairit to Cover Vorotan HPP Debts

  "There are two main violations in the Vorotan issue. The transaction for sale is contrary to the laws of Armenia, since such a strategic object cannot be sold...
• 25 July

  

  Situation with Azerbaijani Hostages at an Impasse: Human Rights Activist

  The situation with the citizens of Azerbaijan arrested as saboteurs in the territory of Armenia and Karabakh is at an impasse...
• 24 July

  

  Debts to Vorotan Hydro Cascade Paid with Stake in Nairit-2

  Some of Haygazard's debts to the Vorotan Hydro Cascade (which was recently sold to the US company ContourGlobal) will be paid by transferring a 53.27% share in...
• 24 July

  

  Yezidi Man With Heart Problems Drafted Because “Armenian Army Needs Him”

  Resident of the village of Zartonk in Armavir marz, ethnic Yazidi Alik Mahmudyan has heart problems but today, July 24, he was drafted into the army.