March, 2016

• 23 March

  

  Recently Deceased Armenian Archbishop Was Awaiting Trial on Child Abuse Charges

  “Hrayr has also made allegations against two other high-ranking clerics from the Armenian monastery in Jerusalem, claiming that he had been sexually assaulted by them up until turning 19,” the paper writes...
• 23 March

  

  NKR Defense Army Junior Sergeant Fatally Shot by Conscript, Officials Say

  NKR military authorities had reported earlier that Hovhannisyan's death was “the result of violating the rules of safe firearm handling.” The Investigative Committee statement, however, said “preliminary investigation has...
• 22 March

  

  Abusive Husband Blames Reporters for ‘Disgracing’ His Family

  Judge Papoyan granted the motion to assign the accused a public defender and adjourned the hearing until the lawyer’s appointment. The motion for a closed court will also be discussed at the next hearing...
• 22 March

  

  Petition Proposes Five ‘Crucial’ Changes to Armenia’s Electoral Code

  As is known, very often irregularities are registered in the polling stations that are difficult to prove. Those irregularities include ballot stuffing, inhibiting the activity of observers, journalists and proxies...
• 22 March

  

  Gaspari Alleges One of His Prison Torturers Was ‘Murdered’

  Civic activist Vardges Gaspari announced after a Monday hearing at the Shengavit district court that his former Nubarashen jail cellmate Mkhitar Sargsyan, whose death on March 1 was reported as suicide...
• 22 March

  

  Scuffle at Lori Court as Defendant Refuses to ‘Serve for Someone Else’

  Speaking of the rumors going around in Vanadzor about the real murderer being a son of a National Security Service officer, Danielyan said that this gossip presumably referred to witness Artur Baghdasaryan..
• 21 March

  

  Armenian President’s Official Biography ‘Debatable, If Not Inaccurate’

  Thus, until 1988, Serzh Sargsyan was a communist. According to his official biography, “Sargsyan is a member of the Republican Party of Armenia since 2006. From July 2006 to November 2007...
• 19 March

  

  International Funding Causes Stir Between Two Armenian HIV/AIDS Nonprofits

  Despite being registered in “Positive People Armenian Network,” Aghajanov added, he has never actually received any support or services from the non-profit; “I do have information, however, that they claim otherwise in their reports...
• 18 March

  

  Yazidi Soldier Transferred to Hospital in Yerevan Following Health Issue Alert

  Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan, however, commented on Murazi's note, claiming that “there is and can be no talk of discharging [Smoyan] at this point...
• 18 March

  

  Armenian Farmer Brings Priests to Pray for Rich Harvest

  Armenpress state news agency reports that Levon Nadaryan, a resident of the town of Surenavan in Armenia's Ararat Province, does not irrigate his apricot orchards and vineyards, nor does he smoke trees to prevent frost...