January, 2015

• 29 January

  

  Two Soldiers Injured Near Border in Tavush

  At around 12:30AM, the adversary attempted multiple saboteur attacks in the Tavush province. Azerbaijani saboteurs shot at a civilian Daewoo automobile along the Voskepar-Kirants road. The three people...
• 29 January

  

  Soldier Found Hanged at Yerevan Military Training Unit, reports Ministry of Defense

  Today, at approximately 6:35AM, a soldier Haykaz Barseghyan was found hanged from a bar in the sports ground of a Yerevan military training unit, reports the official statement of the Ministry of Defense...
• 29 January

  

  Armenian MPs Abstained From Vote During PACE Resolution Against Russia

  In its resolution, the Assembly said it: “condemns the illegal annexation of Crimea and its continuing integration into the Russian Federation”. It also condemned Russia’s role in “instigating and...
• 29 January

  

  Threat of Drought in Armenia: Drinking and Irrigation Water Levels in Danger

  The level of snow coverage around the Republic is 60% below the season’s norm. That signifies that the large reservoirs have not been filled. According to experts, if there is no heavy snowfall by...
• 29 January

  

  Armenia Among Partially Free Countries: Other EEU Members Not Free

  Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev won a landslide reelection victory against an opposition that was crippled by arrests and legal constraints, and the regime stepped up its jailing of human rights...
• 28 January

  

  Turkish Opposition MP Resigns from Party After Party Colleagues Hold Genocide Related Banner

  In regards to the current structure and ideology of the CHP, the CHP is not where I can be a member of the parliament. False accusations of genocide have been supported by the leaders of the new...
• 27 January

  

  Yerevan Entrepreneurs Will Protest Everyday Against Turnover Tax Law: Gyumri Also Joins In

  We are going to come here everyday, except for tomorrow because it’s a holiday (the anniversary of the formation of Armenian Army). We will be in front of the Government building from morning to 3PM,..
• 27 January

  

  Holocaust Victims Commemorated in Yerevan (VIDEO)

  More than a million inmates, primarily Jews, were brutally and systematically killed in the place where the Nazis introduced the monstrous concept of “industrialized murder”. Among the other victims...
• 27 January

  

  Armenian Bishop Unable to Calm Down Mothers of Dead Soldiers (VIDEO)

  Bishop Bagrat asked the mothers to calm down. Gohar Sargsyan, the mother of soldier Tigran Ohanjanyan, responded saying that they would not calm down until their sons' case’s are dealt with in a just manner...
• 27 January

  

  Prisoner Starts a Hunger Strike: No Doctors in Vanadzor Prison, Says Prisoner’s Mother

  After having a surgery on his head, Hakobyan has to submit various blood samples and has to undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging, which technically is impossible in the Vanadzor prison...