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How an Armenian Oligarch Pays Taxes
Alex Grig, one of the companies owned by oligarch, Republican Party of Armenia MP Samvel Aleksanyan, has leased another company also belonging to Aleksanyan, Lusastgh Sugar.Read More »
Armenian Government Violates Procedure for Implementing ECHR Rulings
Since 2010, oversight procedures in the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, which supervises the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgments, have changed...Read More »
‘Justice to Tigran Araqelyan’ Art Seen on Northern Avenue (VIDEO)
After a six-month break, the art group "Counter Blow" made a come back with a poster stuck on a wall on Northern Ave. in central Yerevan...Read More »
OSCE Monitoring of Karabakh Frontline Stopped Because of Shooting
“A planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan to be conducted by the OSCE Mission in the Hadrut direction, scheduled for October 17, was stopped...Read More »
Ethnic Azeri Man Released After Being Held for 2 Months in Armenia
Armenia has released Allahverdi Pelengov, an ethnic Azeri and a citizen of the Republic of Georgia, who was held for two months by the RA National Security Service.Read More »
Wings of Tatev to Operate at Special Tariffs on Oct. 19 and 20
October 16 marks the third anniversary of the launch of the Wings of Tatev aerial tramway. In its lifetime, the tramway has transported approximately 200,000 tourists.Read More »
Mine Explodes, Killing 25-Year-Old Army Officer and Injuring 3 Others
Chief of the field engineer company, captain Gevorg Mnatsakanyan was fatally injured when a mine exploded at around 8:30 pm on Oct. 16 near a military post at Armenia’s northeastern border.Read More »
Amnesty International Report and Abuses in the Armenian Army
"Such a book shouldn't have been written. Imagine if a 14-year-old reads this book. How is he going to later serve in the army? Described in this book are incidents that can't happen in the army...Read More »
Opposition Activist’s Tires Slashed: Worried Next Time It’ll Be Him
The Arabkir Police Division is conducting an investigation into an incident in which the tires of a Ford Transit belonging to the Pre-Parliament civil initiative as well as those of a vehicle...Read More »
‘I Won’t Pay and I Won’t Register’: Attorneys Protest New State Tax
A dozen attorneys in Armenia have begun a campaign protesting a new mandated registration fee, some of whom since yesterday have already...Read More »