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18 Dead of Swine Flu in Armenia, Health Minister Says
Authorities will decide Friday whether there is a need to further extend the winter break at the country's kindergartens and schools, the minister added....Read More »
Yerevan Store Owners Suspect Republican MP in Organizing Attack on Their Property: Press
Hoveyan told Haykakan Zhamanak that she rushed to the store at around 7 am when she heard the alarm go off. Upon arrival, the owner found a blasted window and an explosive device in...Read More »
Hrant Dink Commemorated in Yerevan on 9th Anniversary of Death (Video, Photo)
Participants of the commemoration ceremony, which was organized by Istanbul-based Armenian activist movement Nor Zartonk, also delivered a petition to the Armenian capital’s municipality calling on the authorities to name...Read More »
Judge Denies Motion to Transfer Gyumri Massacre Trial to Armenian Courtroom
Human rights activist, Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor office head Artur Sakunts protested upon the start of the trial against the setting of the hearings. He said that “proper working conditions” had not been created at...Read More »
Number of Armenia Swine Flu Fatalities Reaches 16
As reported by Armenia's Ministry of Health on Monday, January 18, both of the victims had been hospitalized on January 9 in critical condition, with bilateral pneumonia. ...Read More »
Armenian Convict Appeals Termination of Proceedings Against Top Prison Officials
Recall, Shamiryan, a former Hrazdan inmate, had filed a complaint with Armenia's Special Investigation Service against the prison officials, claiming to have had come to an agreement with Babayan over ...Read More »
Opposition Activist Ends Hunger Strike
Safaryan had gone into a hunger strike Friday evening, demanding to be transferred to an individual cell, and, as stated by Pashinyan, prison authorities have met his demands. “Safaryan has no complaints over the conditions in his new cell,” the lawmaker wrote...Read More »
Armenia Swine Flu Death Toll Continues to Rise
As of January 15 official statistics, a total number of 992 people with acute respiratory infections have applied for hospital treatment, 873 of them – minors. 502 of the patients are suffering from pneumonia...Read More »
Armenian Opposition Activists Go Into Another Hunger Strike in Jail
New Armenia reports that Gevorg Safaryan has now been taken to a punishment cell, while Kyureghyan has been joined by several other hunger-strikers in his “very small” cell, “which has led to intolerable conditions for the inmates....Read More »
Yerevan Residents Willing to Take ‘Drastic Measures’ to Fight for Their Rights
As for the proposed alternative apartments, Geravetyan said they were in a newly constructed building on Pushkin street which the tenants of nearby buildings have continuously been protesting against...Read More »