October, 2016

• 26 October

  

  Armenian Soldier Killed in Karabakh

  Gurgen Ayvazyan, a 20-year-old soldier of a northeastern military unit of Nagorno-Karabakh's Defense Army, was fatally wounded at around 5 pm on Wednesday as a result of a a ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed...
• 26 October

  

  Vardenis Man Intends to Continue Protest Despite Persecution

  “They'd inject me with drugs three times a day; I'd get numb and lose consciousness, and when I'd finally come to, I'd ask them not to inject me any more,” Yeranosyan, who was allowed to leave the mental hospital only...
• 26 October

  

  PM Will Not Respond to Corruption Allegations Against Armenian Army Chief, Veteran Says

  - I don't want us to turn every vicious phenomenon in our army into a subject of speculation. The army is the only source of our safety; it protects us from Turkey and Azerbaijan...
• 25 October

  

  Ararat Police Chief Beats Up Criminalist for Failing to Carry Out Order Quickly Enough: Press

  “According to verified data, the assault took place at the criminalist's office and was initiated by the police chief's driver, Edgar, who was soon joined by a criminal investigation department employee named Arsen...
• 24 October

  

  ‘To Hell With Human Rights:’ Armenian Protester Subjected to Punitive Psychiatry

  - I had no intention of killing myself; I have an 80-year-old mother, I have loans, I want to start a family one day. Why would I want to commit suicide?...
• 24 October

  

  Vardenis Man Forcibly Admitted to Psychiatric Hospital After Staging Protest Outside Government Building

  Vardenis resident Armen Yeranosyan was forcibly taken to a mental institution on October 22 by police officers after staging 5-day hunger strike and stitching up his lips outside the Government building in Yerevan in protest ...
• 24 October

  

  Opposition MPs Call for Tougher Anti-Corruption Measures

  Note, speaking to a group of reporters last week, Karen Karapetyan announced that everyone was from now on free to import whatever they wanted to Armenia; he went ...
• 21 October

  

  Authorities Looking Into Defense Ministry’s Potato Suppliers After Farmers Protest Against Low Prices: Press

  According to the paper, Agriculture minister Ignati Arakelyan recently went to meet the farmers and urged them to wait for a couple of days “until competent government agencies conclude their probe and find out what's really going on...
• 20 October

  

  Former NKR MP Accuses New Chief of Armenian Army Staff of Embezzlement

  Not only do they know about this, but I'm convinced that Movses Hakobyan would not have been able to do anything without Sargsyan's and Ohanyan's knowledge. It's a fact: everyone knows that the supply of bread is on him...
• 20 October

  

  Former Employees of Idling Textile Plant Gather Outside Government Building to Demand Back Wages

  “We even have a court decision in our favor that has obligated the plant's management to sell the property and pay the employees' wages. But there's nothing worth selling in that plant; everything has been decayed...