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Son of Former Mayor of Gyumri Reportedly Beat Up Multiple People
A few days ago, Spartak Ghukasyan, son of the former mayor of Gyumri and newly-elected MP Vardan Ghukasyan, badly beat up multiple employees of a gas station ...Read More »
Yerevan Mayor’s Staff Members Take Away Reporter’s Phone to Remove Evidence of Bribery; Video Restored
They gave it back with a napkin, and of course the fingerprints had been wiped away. I refused to take the phone and went home. They followed me, opened...Read More »
Gaspari Holds Two Demonstrations Outside State Offices
Employees of the Chamber tried to convince Gaspari to go to the office of their chairman, Ara Zohrabyan, and discuss the issue with him; Gasparo, however, declined the offer...Read More »
President’s Office Refuses to Release Names of People Granted Clemency in 2016
The 30 prisoners pardoned in 2106, according to the department spokesperson, were mainly people who had been imprisoned for committing a crime of minor or medium gravity. ..Read More »
Four Men Try to Search Armenian Reporter’s House Without Warrant
When Makhsudyan warned the men that she would call her lawyer, they “suddenly changed their tactics” and insisted that “we only need your help...Read More »
Family of Armenian Soldier Do Not Believe Son Died by Suicide
[Karen] was looking forward to April 26 because his mom was to go and spend a whole day with him in Karabakh. He was very happy and very excited about this, therefore he...Read More »
Armenia’s Government to Take Decision on Paying 50 000 Euros to Soldier’s Family
Hrachik Muradyan, a native of the village of Baghramyan, had filed an appeal with the ECHR, claiming that his son had died as a result of ill-treatment by his superiors while in the...Read More »
Three Karabakh Soldiers Drown in Reservoir Near Military Unit
Three soldiers of the Nagorno-Karabakh defense army were killed on May 8 when their car fell into a reservoir near the Mataghis military unit, the NKR defense ministry said in an official statement...Read More »
40-Year-Old Tsovasar Woman Killed by Husband
The village head said he was surprised to find himself cited by the press as having said that the woman was beaten to death with keys; Mkhitaryan claims that he has only told ...Read More »
Sanitek Employee Has Leg Amputated after Being Hit by Car While on Duty
“I like cleaning up the like it is my own house,” one of them claims and adds. “My heart is the people and my job is the care about them...Read More »