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City Hall Official Website Features No Information on Yerkir Tsirani Members
Later, another representative of the press service told us that Yerkir Tsirani had never provided them with biographies for its members and...Read More »
Armenian Authorities Press Charges Against Officer to Avoid Paying Him Compensation, Lawyer Claims
Lawyer Norikyan added that he intends to appeal to the Minister of Defense with a motion to recognize Khachatryan as a beneficiary of the Military Insurance Fund, in accordance with the...Read More »
Investigation Underway After Mother and Daughter Jump Off Bridge in Yerevan
According to the ministry spokesperson, prior to the 3-day absence, the woman had neither warned her coworkers or employers that she would not...Read More »
Trials Over Political Oppositionists in Armenia ‘Reminiscent of Stalinist Repressions’
Head of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts expressed the opinion that the term “selective justice” should from now on be replaced with the term “target justice.”Read More »
Yerevan City Hall Finally Starts Repairing Nubarashen Prison’s Broken Sewer
Recall, the residents of the apartment blocks near the Nubarashen prison have been protestings for years that the prison’s broken sewer was causing foul stench in the entire neighborhood and...Read More »
‘Cover Your Noses; Let’s Go to the Wastewater’
- Do they think there are no pregnant women in these 5 buildings? And that Mr. Gor Vardanyan… Did he think he was on a movie set? Was he trying to show off his biceps?”Read More »
Statement Following Attack on Female Oppositionists Addresses Gender Inequality and Power Imbalance in Armenia
We can reject victimhood and get back the power over our own bodies only through revenge...Read More »
Yerevan Police Use Disproportionate Force Against Protesters Condemning Morning Violence Against Oppositionists
We, those gathered outside the Yerevan City Hall, see no other way but to come here and demand that the Council of Elders is cleared from...Read More »
Shirak Professor Ends Hunger Strike; Does Not Intend to Stop Fighting
Over the past days, the rector never tried to initiate a meeting the hunger-striking professor. Only once was he approached by deputy rector Anahit Farmanyan, who urged Khorikyan...Read More »
Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor
Female members of the ruling party, for their part, criticized the Yerkir Tsirani representatives’ behaviour as “unbecoming of an Armenian mother and an Armenian woman.”Read More »