December, 2015

• 2 December

  

  Survey Finds Inaccuracies in Voter Lists Ahead of Constitutional Referendum in Armenia

  The survey has also found 218 persons in the voter register who shared the same name and surname and even had identical dates of birth, while the day and month of 37 thousand 339 voters was missing completely...
• 2 December

  

  Opposition Alliance Starts Nonstop Sit-In in Yerevan Seeking Regime Change

  After an about 3-hour march, the opposition alliance with its supporters returned to the Freedom Square and announced that they would take turns spending the night at the demonstration site. Today at midday...
• 1 December

  

  Armenia’s Political Forces Drag Citizens Into ‘Pretentious Processes,’ Civic Activist Says

  “This is a long-term process and it should expand beyond social networks. The process is aimed at raising awareness among citizens as sovereigns. Armenian political forces have an elitist approach to the people.
• 1 December

  

  Kosh Inmate Found Hanged in Prison Lavatory

  Robert Grigoryan, 31, was serving an eight-year sentence for theft and handling stolen goods, as well as forcing a minor into the committal of a grave crime, accompanied with involvement of the minor into an organized crime group...
• 1 December

  

  Armenian Border Soldier Dies From Gunshot Wound

  According to preliminary data, officials said, the soldier was shot from his own service weapon. In addition to the bullet wound, an external examination of the corpse also found bruises on Khachatryan's shins...
• 1 December

  

  Appeals Court Upholds Activist’s 9-Year Jail Sentence

  Kyureghyan, who reacted to the verdict with applause, had demanded at the start of the trial acquittal from the court. Presiding Judge Sergey Chichoyan had remarked that the defendant...

November, 2015

• 30 November

  

  Citizen Refuses to Participate in ‘Illegitimate’ Referendum, Demands Her Name Be Removed From Electoral List

  “This is a public statement on my deliberate decision not to take part in the elections; I refuse to be part of this process of weakening the state and do not feel responsible for any consequences arising from these elections...
• 27 November

  

  NSS Official Says ‘Crime Group’ Plotted ‘Monstrous Attacks’ against Citizens, Politicians

  Vardanyan has been assigned to lawyer Levon Baghdasaryan who is known for a number of high-profile cases. Baghdasaryan, in particular, defended “Iravunk” paper and its editor-in-chief Hovhannes Galajyan...
• 27 November

  

  High-Ranking Armenia Fund Official Admits Leadership ‘Keeps Pocketing’ Donations

  The Fund official went on to publicly claim that the facts presented in “To Donate or Not to Donate” were lies: “The thing is that this paper, one could say, is completely based on newspapers, which are strictly oppositional; their publications...
• 27 November

  

  Yerevan School Denies Beating of Syrian-Armenian Student, Urges Media ‘to Be Delicate’

  On a different note, from now own we urge you not to separate our Syrian-Armenian pupils from the others; it's unacceptable, especially considering the fact that the school has been successfully...