April, 2014

• 28 April

  

  Armenian Prisoners Tell Prison Monitoring Group How Police Beat Them to Extort Confessions

  He claims that during he interrogation, police employees uttered curses of a sexual nature in his and his mother's name and used force, harming his dignity.
• 25 April

  

  Prosperous Armenia Party MP on What Was Discussed at Today’s Meeting

  The group of four parliamentary parties that met earlier today decided to collect signatures at the next session of the National Assembly next week...
• 25 April

  

  Armenian PM Hovik Abrahamyan Keeps Mum After Meeting with Opposition Parties on Pension Reform

  Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, leaving Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan's office earlier today, declined to comment on...
• 25 April

  

  Pension Reform Remains Unclear After Parliamentary Committee Discussion

  Acting RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Artem Asatryan at a meeting of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Social Affairs...
• 25 April

  

  Civil Society’s Role in Resolving Conflicts in South Caucasus to be Discussed in Yerevan

  Civil hearings on "The role and influence of civil society in the peace-building process" will take place on May 3, at 12 pm, at the Imperial Palace in Yerevan.
• 25 April

  

  Victims of Armenian Genocide Commemorated in Yerevan: Multimedia Photo Essay

  Epress.am presents a multimedia photo essay based on materials collected on April 24, 2014, from Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan.
• 25 April

  

  Over 1,000 Signatures Gathered in Open Letter to Armenian PM on Lake Sevan

  An open letter to Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia (RA) Hovik Abrahamyan on programs that pose a threat to Lake Sevan gathered 1,233 signatures...
• 25 April

  

  Turkey Politicians Respond to Erdogan’s Armenian Genocide Statement: Today’s Zaman

  Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's historic statement in which he extended condolences to the grandchildren of victims of the Armenian Genocide, has received a mixed reaction...
• 24 April

  

  How Russia Betrayed the Armenians in 1915: Lessons from the Armenian Genocide

  " General Yudenich ordered not to give Armenian refugees land in the Alashkert region, [as he] was waiting for a large influx of refugees from Don and Kuban who were going to...
• 24 April

  

  Another Family Protests Outside Presidential Palace, But Persuaded to Go Home

  Karabakh War veteran Hakob Tadevosyan, with his wife and four children on Wednesday began a sit-in outside the presidential palace.