November, 2014

• 27 November

  

  Government Worker Involved in Loan Sharking, Claim Protesting Women

  The protesting woman told Epress.am that she paid more interest than the initial amount (the agreed 5% a month), but she was unable to cover the debt itself. According to her, Pluzyan...
• 27 November

  

  Bill Demanding an Apology for Armenian Genocide Presented in Turkish Parliament

  The site notes that if the law is accepted, then Turkey would accept the Armenian Genocide and consider April 24 as a “national day of mourning.” The Kurdish politician...
• 27 November

  

  Echmiadzin Resident Gets Favorable Verdict after Two Years of Protesting

  Ashot Khudoyan first began his protest in front of the Presidential Palace back in June 29, 2013. Khudoyan claimed that his sister, Marieta Kalashyan, with the help...
• 27 November

  

  Drug Addicts Treated with Physical Force in Armenia: Report

  The human rights defenders consider it a problem that patients do not go through the entire course of the treatment. Basically, when patients are relieved of their basic acute condition...
• 27 November

  

  Elites Stalling Democratic Process with Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict

  Non-democratic political regimes in Armenia and Azerbaijan do not have strong incentives of changing the current no-war-no-peace situation. The status quo helps...
• 26 November

  

  Moscow Benefits from Closed Armenian-Turkish Border: Turkish Economist

  Şahbaz stated the latter during a question and answer section and believed that by Moscow keeping the borders closed, it would keep its influence in Armenia...
• 26 November

  

  Sinjar Yezidi National Union Consider Parliament’s Behavior Unacceptable

  “We are nearing the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and we are not attempting to condemn the crimes of the Ottoman Empire,” notes the Sinjar Union’s statement...
• 20 November

  

  Why Does the Civil Servant Council Keep Competitions for Government Posts Closed to the Public

  According to him, they restrict the monitors from recording the competitions' interview stage, in essence, the only stage when an applicant has to speak and answer the commission’s...
• 20 November

  

  French Embassy in Armenia is Unaware of the Law, Claims Woman working in the CoE

  - This, basically, shows that the general consul working in this country is unaware of the country’s elementary laws, and does not trust the country’s representative...
• 20 November

  

  PACE Condemns Azerbaijan’s Use of Prisoner Transfer Treaty in ‘Safarov Case’

  Once Ramil Safarov arrived in Azerbaijan, he was greeted as a national hero and granted an immediate pardon, “ long before the expiry of the minimum sentence set by the Hungarian...