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Monthly Archives: July 2015
July, 2015
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29 July
Armenian Human Rights Defenders Motion to Prosecute Deputy Police Heads
At the same time, HCAV filed another motion for the involvement as the accused of the police officers who used excessive force and violence against the peaceful demonstrators on Baghramyan Avenue on June 23. HCAV also... -
28 July
Nairit Employees Demand Reoperation, Warn About ‘Large-Scale’ Actions
Meanwhile, the Armenian parliament has called a hearing on July 28 to discuss the study aimed at assessing the technical feasibility and financial viability, as well as the possibility of Nairit's future operation. The study... -
27 July
American Companies to Assess Validity of Electricity Tariff Rise in Armenia
These inspections, as stated by Stepanyan, are not related to the ongoing international audit of the national electricity distribution company “Electric Networks of Armenia.” This audit, according to her, is carried out under the... -
27 July
Dozens Gather in Yerevan in Solidarity with Turkish People
The majority of the victims were members of Federation of Socialist Youth Association and other left-wing groups, including anarchists that had gathered in Suruc to transport humanitarian aid to the war-torn Syrian city... -
27 July
Armenian Governor’s Son Arrested Over Beating in Goris
Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan's son, Tigran Khachatryan, was arrested on July 25 - about three months after the incident - in connection with the beating on May 2 of brothers Harutyun and Mushegh Zakaryan; Khachatryan... -
24 July
‘Counter Strike:’ Street Art Featuring Armenian President Appears on Parliament Building
Armenian street art group Hakaharvats (Counter Strike) yesterday held an action on Baghramyan Ave. near the RA National Assembly building. The activists plastered a poster of the RA President Serzh Sargsyan on the wall of the building... -
23 July
Armenian Businessman Escaped Taxes By Constructing Apartment Building ‘At Citizens’ Request’
According to the project, the spokesperson stressed, the building should have had 12 stories; instead, 14 floors were built, while some of the residents were dissatisfied with the housing conditions and did not want... -
22 July
Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Armenian Man Accused of Murder, Lawyer Says
The lawyer recalled that the witness had written in his preliminary testimony that he had seen Kungortsev at the crime scene, and later repeated the same statement in a court hearing in January: “However... -
22 July
Armenian Finance Minister’s Family Buys Orange Armenia
As reported today by Armenian daily “Haykakan Zhamanak,” experts estimate that the market price of Orange Armenia could range from USD 80 million up to USD 120 million. This assessment is based on the company... -
20 July
NSS Employee Who Had Tried to Recruit Journalist Appointed RA President’s Press Secretary
Representative of Heritage Party’s interests, lawyer Harutyun Baghdasaryan told Epress.am late last year, that the Prosecutor’s office did not have the right to reject Hrayr Manukyan’s recording as material...