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Prisoner: ‘I was Tortured and Not Released Because of Complaint Against Prison Deputy Chief’
Artak Hakobyan was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for “hooliganism.” He has already served 3.5 years of his prison term.Read More »
Unsolved Murder of Dashnak Village Head Hrach Muradyan Sparks Outcry
According to demonstrators, the 2010 attempted murder of Karabakh War veteran, ARF-D member, and Proshyan village head Hrach Muradyan and...Read More »
Website that Defamed Women’s Resource Center Refuses to Publish Retraction
The dispute between the Women’s Resource Center of Armenia (WRCA) and the website Zaruhi.com, which began last year, has not been resolved.Read More »
Not Premeditated Murder: Army Conscript Says He’s Innocent
Army conscript David Khachatryan, accused of the May. 15, 2013 murder of fellow conscript Lyuks Stepanyan in a military unit in the town of Noyemberyan, does not admit his guilt...Read More »
Army Generals Inquire about Increase in Soldiers’ Salaries
According to RA First Deputy Minister of Finance Pavel Safaryan, the increase in allocations is due to higher wages and an increase in the price of gas...Read More »
Armenian PM Explains Why He Wants to Abolish Unemployment Benefits
Unemployment benefits neither helped solve social problems nor created jobs, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said in parliament todayRead More »
Prisoner Sews his Mouth Shut, Insists He’s Innocent
Karen Kungortsev, 22, charged with the murder of Yerevan resident, David Hovakimyan, 15, shut his mouth shut on Sunday in the Vanadzor penitentiary...Read More »
Armenia Ranks Poorly in Gender Equality
Iceland, Finland, and Norway are at the top of the list of 136 countries, where gender equality has been considered in the areas of political participation...Read More »
‘Button-Pressing’ MPs’ Salaries Shouldn’t Increase: Postanjyan
Zaruhi Postanjyan, head of the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, considers the bill to increase the salaries of high-ranking officials (the president, the prime minister, ministers and MPs) to be discriminatory.Read More »
Armenian MP Develops his Business in Georgia in Violation of the Law: Paper
Georgian TV station Monitor yesterday broadcast an investigation into Armenian MP Vardan Ayvazyan’s forays into pisciculture carried out with violations of the law...Read More »