February, 2018

• 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...
• 13 February

  

  Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor

  Female members of the ruling party, for their part, criticized the Yerkir Tsirani representatives’ behaviour as “unbecoming of an Armenian mother and an Armenian woman.”
• 13 February

  

  Shirak University Students Boycott Classes to Support Hunger-Striking Professor

  The boycotting students have written an open letter to rector Minasyan and Education and Science Minister Levon Mkrtchyan, demanding  that they address the concerns raised...
• 13 February

  

  Protesting Oppositionist Subjected to Physical Violence by Republicans

  A member of the opposition Yerkir Tsirani faction, Marine Khachatryan, was on Tuesday subjected to physical violence in the Council of Elders of Yerevan by members of Armenia’s ...
• 12 February

  Armenian Political Prisoner Calls for Participation in ‘Agreed-Upon War’

  - Aliyev is in a rush, because international, regional and internal developments are becoming increasingly more unfavorable and dangerous for him and his regime...
• 12 February

  

  Justice Ministry’s New Bill to Grant Monopoly to Armenian Apostolic Church

  No religious organizations apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church will be allowed to receive foreign financial assistance; all members of a religious organization will have to...
• 12 February

  

  History Professor in Shirak Goes on Hunger Strike to Fight Rector’s ‘Atrocities’

  Back in September 2017, Khorikyan and another employee of the university, Kachik Hambaryan, wrote an open letter to president Serzh Sargsyan, in which they “described in detail how Minasyan...
• 9 February

  

  Yerevan Students Movement Puts Fighting Army Problems on Hold to Combat Toilet Paper Issue

  Davit Petrosyan, a founding member of the “There Will Be Deferments” and “For the Development of Science” initiatives, said in conversation with Epress.am that YSU Restart...