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Appeals Court Sustains Lower Court Ruling in “Harsnaqar Case”
The RA Court of Appeal today left unchanged a lower court's ruling to sentence all six of the accused in the "Harsnaqar case" to 12 years in prison. Read More »
Several Detained, Two Injured in Protest Rally Against Electricity Price Hike
A couple of individuals were seriously injured and several people were detained by police during a protest demonstration against the electricity price hike earlier today. Read More »
Striking Mika-Cement Employees Promised Overdue Wages will be Paid
Employees of Mika-Cement in Hrazdan ended the labor strike they began this morning. They were promised their wages, which have not been paid since December of last year, in...Read More »
‘Not Manly’: Members of Ruling Party Adopt Revised Law on Funded Pension System
"Never in my life have I felt so humiliated. You are adopting a law that you know 80% of society opposes. We need a recess," said Prosperous Armenia Party...Read More »
Environmental Activists Propose Suspending Aarhus Convention Privileges Granted to Armenian Government
Since ratification of the Aarhus Convention in 2001, the Armenian government and entities responsible for implementing the rights prescribed by the Convention have failed to...Read More »
Blood on Clothes of Accused Did Not Belong to Murdered Schoolboy
The sample taken from the clothes of Karen Kungortsev, accused in the murder of15-year-old Yerevan resident David Hovakimyan, showed that the blood on his clothes...Read More »
MP Compared Enthusiasm of Court’s Ruling on Pension System with Armenia-Turkey Match
With its new draft law on the funded pension system, the Armenian government is bursting the enthusiasm society had after the Constitutional Court's ruling...Read More »
Company Operating Paid Parking Spaces in Yereva Prepared to Sell 100% of its Shares
"Taking into consideration the speculations regarding the company's activities published by the press recently and numerous political and not political figures' opinions and views on the... Read More »
Witnesses were Pressured, Victim’s Successors Don’t Believe Suicide Theory
"And on the day of Sargis' death, Tovmas Mnatsakanyan got out of [his position] at the military base and said that allegedly 'the Turks [referring to Azeris] shot Sargis'...Read More »
2 Armenian Soldiers Killed by Enemy Fire: Armenian Defense Ministry
A soldier died on June 19 at the battle position in one of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army's military units, and another soldier died on June 20 in...Read More »