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Demonstrators Protest Lake Sevan Proposal Outside Parliament
The initiative SOS Sevan held a protest today outside the National Assembly building, urging MPs to vote against a government proposal that environmentalists say...Read More »
Armenian Prisoners Tell Prison Monitoring Group How Police Beat Them to Extort Confessions
He claims that during he interrogation, police employees uttered curses of a sexual nature in his and his mother's name and used force, harming his dignity.Read More »
Prosperous Armenia Party MP on What Was Discussed at Today’s Meeting
The group of four parliamentary parties that met earlier today decided to collect signatures at the next session of the National Assembly next week...Read More »
Armenian PM Hovik Abrahamyan Keeps Mum After Meeting with Opposition Parties on Pension Reform
Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, leaving Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan's office earlier today, declined to comment on...Read More »
Pension Reform Remains Unclear After Parliamentary Committee Discussion
Acting RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Artem Asatryan at a meeting of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Social Affairs...Read More »
Civil Society’s Role in Resolving Conflicts in South Caucasus to be Discussed in Yerevan
Civil hearings on "The role and influence of civil society in the peace-building process" will take place on May 3, at 12 pm, at the Imperial Palace in Yerevan.Read More »
Victims of Armenian Genocide Commemorated in Yerevan: Multimedia Photo Essay
Epress.am presents a multimedia photo essay based on materials collected on April 24, 2014, from Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan.Read More »
Over 1,000 Signatures Gathered in Open Letter to Armenian PM on Lake Sevan
An open letter to Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia (RA) Hovik Abrahamyan on programs that pose a threat to Lake Sevan gathered 1,233 signatures...Read More »
Turkey Politicians Respond to Erdogan’s Armenian Genocide Statement: Today’s Zaman
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's historic statement in which he extended condolences to the grandchildren of victims of the Armenian Genocide, has received a mixed reaction...Read More »
How Russia Betrayed the Armenians in 1915: Lessons from the Armenian Genocide
" General Yudenich ordered not to give Armenian refugees land in the Alashkert region, [as he] was waiting for a large influx of refugees from Don and Kuban who were going to...Read More »