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Gyumri Marks Freedom of Speech Day Today
NGO representatives, journalists, editors and other members of the press are invited to Armenia's second-largest city to mark the occasion.Read More »
Raffi Hovannisian Gets His Tent. Police Didn’t Intervene
At 6 pm today, as previously promised in a statement issued yesterday, a group of NGO workers and members of the public erected a...Read More »
Armenian-Americans Urge US Ambassador to Intervene, Allow Tent to be Erected for Hunger-Striking MP
In a letter addressed to US Ambassador to Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch, a group of Armenian-Americans under the initiative...Read More »
Allies Step Up Bombing in Tripoli
Intermittent explosions could be heard starting on Wednesday night local-time and lasting until dawn on Thursday. Read More »
PACE Co-Rapporteurs Welcome Reforms in Armenia, But Stress Concrete Action
The monitoring co-rapporteurs for Armenia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), John Prescott and Axel Fischer...Read More »
‘Dignity Friday’: Activists Use Social Networking Sites to Call for Massive Demos
Pro-democracy demonstrators in Syria have called for mass protests across the country on Friday after security forces stormed a mosque...Read More »
Mubarak Supporters and Opponents Clash in Cairo
Hundreds of supporters and opponents of Egypt’s deposed leader have clashed in front of a court considering whether to...Read More »
System of Providing Tractor Inspection Certificates to Reduce Corruption Risks: Armenian Government
Today the Government of the Republic of Armenia approved a system of providing tractor inspection certificates and driving permits.Read More »
Young Armenian Soldier Shoots Himself. Criminal Case Launched (updated)
On the night of Mar. 21–22, in Hadrut military base, military recruit Jirayr Minasyan, 18, shot and injured himself with a machine gun.Read More »
Analyst Doesn’t Consider Hovannisian’s ‘Inadequate’ Hunger Strike to be PR Stunt
Political analyst Suren Surenyants considers such an extreme move by Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian to be inadequate in political terms.Read More »