February, 2018

• 26 February

  Open Letter Calls on Twin Cities to Suspend All Relations With Yerevan

  Armenia’s law enforcement bodies reacted to the acts of violence with a great delay under the influence of public outcry and demand. The criminal investigation will be held under ...
• 26 February

  Armenian Women’s Front Member Attacked With Sharp-Cutting Object

  - In the evening, as I was walking to the entrance to my apartment building, a young man - with a hat over his face, wearing a dark-colored jacket - quickly approached me and hit me....
• 23 February

  

  Prosecutor Evades Answering Important Question on March 1 Events

  - We know that there were snipers; the first thing they should have done was to isolate those armed. None of the victims had weapons...
• 23 February

  Yerevan Prosecutor Tries to Justify Deadly Use of Cheryomukha-7 on March 1

  At the parliamentary hearings on the deadly post-election clashes of March 1-2, 2008, Karen Bisharyan, deputy chief of the department for especially important cases at the Armenian...
• 23 February

  Gazprom Armenia’s Leak Detectors Faulty, Activist Claims

  Epress.am and Gaspari conducted a small survey among Yerevan residents to find out whether the company does in fact carry out the routine check-ups. The majority ...
• 22 February

  Yerevan Pharmacists Concerned Over Health Ministry Decision to Extend List of Prescription Only Medications

  She added that chronic patients have worked out what medications best suit their needs and always buy the same drugs, without having to go to a doctor every single time and...
• 22 February

  Soldier Killed in Karabakh by Azeri Fire, Officials Say

  Note, this is the ninth death in the Armed Forces of Armenia and the NKR Defense Army since the beginning of the year; three of them occurred as a result of ceasefire violations...
• 22 February

  

  Mother of Dead Soldier Holds Solo Protest Outside Government Building, Promises to Fight for Truth ‘Until My Last Breath’

  - I told him to stop lying… Then one day he asked why I was there again… What? Who is he to tell me whether I should protest or not?
• 22 February

  Rally in Yerevan Against Bankrupt Dairy Company

  Ashtarak Kat dairy company has filed a lawsuit against nearly 300 small-scale businesses to recover millions of dollars in unpaid debt for previously delivered products...
• 21 February

  Conscript of Ijevan Military Unit Dies in Hospital

  When contacted by Epress.am, spokesperson of the Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said the cause of Stepanyan’s death has not yet been established: “The soldier had...