February, 2018

• 19 February

  Company Repairs Nubarashen Broken Sewer Line As ‘Gesture of Goodwill’

  Murad Sargsyan, the press spokesperson for Veolia Jur, the company that carried out the repair works, told Epress.am that their workers repaired a broken sewer line and replaced a worn-out pipe...
• 19 February

  

  City Hall Official Website Features No Information on Yerkir Tsirani Members

  Later, another representative of the press service told us that Yerkir Tsirani had never provided them with biographies for its members and...
• 19 February

  Armenian Authorities Press Charges Against Officer to Avoid Paying Him Compensation, Lawyer Claims

  Lawyer Norikyan added that he intends to appeal to the Minister of Defense with a motion to recognize Khachatryan as a beneficiary of the Military Insurance Fund, in accordance with the...
• 16 February

  Investigation Underway After Mother and Daughter Jump Off Bridge in Yerevan

  According to the ministry spokesperson, prior to the 3-day absence, the woman had neither warned her coworkers or employers that she would not...
• 15 February

  

  Trials Over Political Oppositionists in Armenia ‘Reminiscent of Stalinist Repressions’

  Head of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts expressed the opinion that the term “selective justice” should from now on be replaced with the term “target justice.”
• 15 February

  Yerevan City Hall Finally Starts Repairing Nubarashen Prison’s Broken Sewer

  Recall, the residents of the apartment blocks near the Nubarashen prison have been protestings for years that the prison’s broken sewer was causing foul stench in the entire neighborhood and...
• 14 February

  

  ‘Cover Your Noses; Let’s Go to the Wastewater’

  - Do they think there are no pregnant women in these 5 buildings? And that Mr. Gor Vardanyan… Did he think he was on a movie set? Was he trying to show off his biceps?”
• 14 February

  

  Statement Following Attack on Female Oppositionists Addresses Gender Inequality and Power Imbalance in Armenia

  We can reject victimhood and get back the power over our own bodies only through revenge...
• 13 February

  

  Yerevan Police Use Disproportionate Force Against Protesters Condemning Morning Violence Against Oppositionists

  We, those gathered outside the Yerevan City Hall, see no other way but to come here and demand that the Council of Elders is cleared from...
• 13 February

  Shirak Professor Ends Hunger Strike; Does Not Intend to Stop Fighting

  Over the past days, the rector never tried to initiate a meeting the hunger-striking professor. Only once was he approached by deputy rector Anahit Farmanyan, who urged Khorikyan...