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Court Ruled on Armenian Traffic Police Chief’s Precautionary Measure
The court today ruled in favor of pre-trial detention in the case of head of Armenia's national traffic police, Colonel Margar Ohanyan...Read More »
Security Service Leaders Assured Kocharian They Could Clean Out Liberty Square on Mar. 1 in Minutes: WikiLeaks
National security adviser to then president Robert Kocharian Garnik Isagulyan said that Kocharian had been swayed by the police and...Read More »
Yerevan Republic Square Fountains Get a Makeover Beginning Sept. 21
With the aim of carrying out work toward modernizing and featuring a new design, the fountains at Yerevan's Republic Square will be...Read More »
Kocharian Fixed Court Ruling Against Ter-Petrossian: Constitutional Court Justice to US Officials
US embassy officials were approached by Valery Poghossian, one of Armenia's nine Constitutional Court justices, on Mar. 6, 2008, for a secret...Read More »
Karabakh is Occupied. Madrid Principles Should be Called ‘Unprincipled Yerevan,’ Says Armenian MP
The ridiculous question "Why don't the people from Artsakh [the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh] go back to Artsakh?" wouldn't be...Read More »
A Beaten Soldier, Abandoned Girl About to Give Birth: Armenia’s Independence According to Tigran Khzmalyan (updated)
Armenia's independence today is like a young man tortured, beaten and humiliated in the army or a 20-year-old girl abandoned in pain who...Read More »
Ter-Petrossian’s ‘Fiery Entrance’ Shook Up ‘Seemingly Apathetic Armenian Body Politic’: WikiLeaks
"His fierce public criticism of the authorities — the second time in two months — illustrates the seriousness with which he is approaching the...Read More »
Pro-Government Newspapers in Armenia Critical of US had Sargsyan’s Support: WikiLeaks
Two days before the May 12, 2007 parliamentary election in Armenia, US Charge d'Affaires Anthony Godfrey sent a confidential cable to...Read More »
George W. Bush’s Brother Becomes Unlikely Hit in China with New Blog
The brother of former US President George W. Bush has opened an account with the most popular microblogging service in China, where...Read More »
Armenian Soldier Slit His Wrists Because his Mother is a Jehovah’s Witness?
On Aug. 29, Artur Grigoryan, 19, who had been serving in a military unit in Ararat marz (province) for six months, citing family issues,...
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