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Tradition of Marking Old New Year will Fade over Time: Ethnographer
After adopting the Julian calendar, people in the Soviet Union, either not quite understanding the change in the holidays or simply in the face of tradition, ...Read More »
Traffic Police Employees Confess to Being Paid in Gasoline in Embezzlement Trial
Traffic police employees were examined today in the ongoing trial of former RA Traffic Police Chief Margar Ohanyan, who is accused of embezzling...Read More »
Russia’s Rostelecom Preparing to Buy Armenia’s GNC-Alfa and Ucom
Russian telecommunications provider Rostelecom intends to acquire 75% minus 1 share of Armenian telecommunications operator GNC-Alfa, and... Read More »
Hrant Dink’s Son Reveals New Evidence in Father’s Case through Software
The latest evidence submitted to the case investigating the murder of Hrant Dink, the late editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian Agos weekly, was...Read More »
European Court Obliges Armenia to Pay 20,000 Euros for Imprisoning Conscientious Objectors
On Jan. 10, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released two new judgments protecting the right of conscientious objectors in ...Read More »
For Years People have been Confusing Date of Old New Year’s Day: Armenian Church
The Old New Year falls on Jan. 14 not Jan. 13, the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese of the Armenian Holy Apostolic Church reminded the public in a...Read More »
Orinats Yerkir Can’t Wipe Off its Traitor Image with Bleach, Believes Karapetyan
"Orinats Yerkir [Rule of Law] has been exhausted and cannot clean its traitor label with bleach. As for Prosperous Armenia, I'll say that it's a party of...Read More »
A Sausage a Day Could Lead to Cancer: Scientists
Eating one sausage a day or two rashers of bacon raises the risk of pancreatic cancer by a fifth, according to scientists in Sweden.Read More »
Current Authorities will be ‘Swallowed’ Just as Ter-Petrossian ‘Swallowed’ Kocharian, Sargsyan: Opinion
"The main purpose of political parties today is to rule, to hoard money; that's why just by being an [average] official they all become billionaires...Read More »
Investigation into Tamamyan Case Might Go to Court by End of this Month
It's likely that the criminal investigation into the case of former head of the RA Police General Department of Criminal Intelligence Hovhannes Tamamyan...Read More »