Epress.am News from Armenia
Dashnaks Finalize Top Candidates for Parliamentary Elections: Paper
Discussions on the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) party list for the upcoming parliamentary elections have concluded.Read More »
Parliamentary Opposition Pushes for a Vote on Proportional Representation Bill
Though first the government, then the National Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs rejected a bill proposing to hold the upcoming...Read More »
VIDEO: Artists Protest Practice of Buying Votes, Paint the Town Red
Local art-activist group Art Laboratory, as a response to the Feb. 12 mayoral elections in the city of Hrazdan, yesterday "painted the town red', so to speak.Read More »
Jehovah’s Witnesses Still Waiting for Apology, Retraction from Armenia’s Public TV
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Armenia filed a claim in early 2011, requesting that the defendants be mandated to apologize for... Read More »
Trial of Former Police General Accused of Abusing his Position Postponed
The trial of former head of the RA Police General Department of Criminal Intelligence Hovhannes Tamamyan that was to take...Read More »
Tense Situation Continues: Activists Continue Sit-In in Park, While Construction Workers Attempt to Resume Work
The numbers of those protesting kiosks construction in the Mashtots Ave. park (between Aram and Buzand streets) in Yerevan today blossomed to...Read More »
Armenia’s Defense Minister Promises to ‘See What He Can Do’ in Case of Killed Solder Moved to Idjevan
The defense minister continued speaking with several parents of killed soldiers, while the Epress.am correspondent noticed an angry dispute...Read More »
Prosperous Armenia Party Accepts Oskanian’s Membership Application
The Prosperous Armenia party (BHK) has accepted former foreign minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian's application for party membership.Read More »
90–100 Cases of Childhood Cancer Annually in Armenia
As in the rest of the world so too in Armenia — the number of cancer cases is growing year by year. There is also an increase in in the rate of childhood cancer...Read More »
Armenia, Azerbaijan Presidents ‘Friendly’ But Karabakh Conflict Won’t be Resolved Soon: Tweet
Igor Popov, the Russian co-chair of the Minsk Group, which is the OSCE group tasked with mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, told the...Read More »