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“They twisted my hands, sat me in the car, and kept trying to get into my pockets to take out my phone. When I sat down at the Police Precinct, they said “who let you sit down?” Read More »

“I believe that together we will be able to effectively conduct the process of Armenia's accession and minimize the risks for our country and maximize the overall benefit...Read More »

Today, Azerbaijan has returned the corpse of Karen Petrosyan, who was taken captive on August 7. Epress.am was told by the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Yerevan office media spokesperson Zara Amatuni. The transfer took place near the Gazakh region’s Jafarli village in Azerbaijan, toward Ijevan, Armenia. Chinari village …Read More »

The Nazik tailing dump has exploited Akhtala’s ore-processing plant which is also in the village. The tailing dump has been conserved two times; the first time was in 1988, and the second in 2010...Read More »

“I’m not married and there is no violence in my home, but I get an impression that all my neighbors have to start hitting each other, if there is such a level of gender imbalance...Read More »

According to Muižnieks, he did not discuss those issues with the President; however, he suggested that his Yerevan team should study incidents of officials violating the presumption of innocence. He believes...Read More »

“This solution, however, has another side; Russia needs an economically strong and quickly developing Armenia in the South Caucasus. I’m claiming that this is the best solution․․․Read More »

“On paper, we had an action plan for the implementation of state obligations, which made it foreseeable, that within time we would at least have a situation in our judiciary where human rights would be protected...Read More »

They killed my 17-year old son, what kind of state do we have? The Turks are coming in here, photographing themselves, doing what they want, why doesn’t the state know that there are Turks in the territory...Read More »

The journalist had told her editor that on the day of the incident in the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet building, where the “Armenia-Diaspora” conference was taking place...Read More »