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Nagorno-Karabakh Conscript Found Dead in Alleged Suicide
According to the preliminary information gathered, 19-year-old Avetisyan's fatal wound was self-inflicted; a criminal case has been launched under article 110.1 of Armenia's ...Read More »
Officials Promise Not to Trouble Yerevan Shopkeepers ‘For the Time Being’
We have to create a group of lawyers and economists and present our demands to the government in a more professional manner. Once the officials discuss the ...Read More »
No Armenian Defense Official Held Responsible for Negligence During 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh Clashes
People were killed, and the compensation for their deaths should not just be paid out in medals; there should be a criminal investigation...Read More »
Russian Soldier Found Dead in Gyumri; Suspect Arrested
In 2016, [Armen J.] was committed to the psychiatric ward of the Central Clinical Military Hospital in Yerevan for multiple episodes of self-harm. He then underwent comprehensive...Read More »
Yerevan Shopkeepers Hold Demonstration Outside Government Offices Over Recent ‘Tax Terror’
The Arinj Mall shopkeepers collectively announced today that they would not go back to work until the issue is resolved. Some of the protesters even expressed the ...Read More »
LGBT Students Not Safe in Armenian Educational Institutions, Survey Reveals
Many of the respondents noted that they have even been bullied or harassed by teachers and professors and that they are often the main contributors...Read More »
Yerevan Court Does Not Dare Issue Verdict Against Pro-Government TV Company
A week before the oppositionist's arrest, the program claimed that Sefilyan, former commander of the Shushi special battalion, left a wounded soldier to die on the battlefield during the Nagorno-Karabakh war...Read More »
Contract Soldier Dead in Vayk Military Unit
The press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan confirmed the information, noting that the circumstances and causes of Isalov's death will be reported later...Read More »
Protesters Dub Armenian Ombudsman ‘Republican Party Rights Defender’
One of the images in particular showed Levon Yeranosyan, deputy police chief of Armenia, throwing a grenade in the direction of the demonstrators...Read More »
Ter-Petrosyan’s Rhetoric on Karabakh Issue Anachronistic
This is, at the very least, frivolous against the background of the Yazidi genocide, the human meat grinder in Syria, and the dismemberment of Ukraine...Read More »