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Military Unit Promises to Pay Contract Serviceman's Money after Azerbaijani Website Reports Issue

Our reporter explained to the caller that Epress.am was responsible for the activities of other news agencies and told him that our editors would like to hear...

Armenian Contract Serviceman Forcefully Assigned to Combat Positions, Denied Pay

The serviceman took the medical document to his military unit and said he could not be assigned to combat positions for the time being. On October 26, however...

Authorities Imposing Their Duties on Citizens; Armenian Parliament Continues Debates on '1000 Drams' Bill

Authorities Imposing Their Duties on Citizens; Armenian Parliament Continues Debates on '1000 Drams' Bill

Before her speech, Postanjyan had a brief altercation with ANC lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan, who had voted for the bill during the first reading and spoke positively of the initiative again during the debate today...

‘The Poor Refuse to Die;’ Anti-Militarist Protest Action in Yerevan

‘The Poor Refuse to Die;’ Anti-Militarist Protest Action in Yerevan

Let all those with a monthly salary contribute 5 thousand drams each and send lawmakers, ministers, generals of the army, the police, and the national security service, judges, prosecutors, investigators, tax officials, the presidential staff...

Police Representative Justifies Officers' Use of Excessive Force Against Protesters in Court

Police Representative Justifies Officers' Use of Excessive Force Against Protesters in Court

Commenting on Varosyan's claim that police officers had not hindered the protest “but simply moved it a little further away from the presidential office,” Revazyan said; “A person's action at a specific place has a specific addressee...

Ex-Soldier Jailed for False Terror Reports Pardoned by Armenian President

Ex-Soldier Jailed for False Terror Reports Pardoned by Armenian President

Davit Hakobyan, a 27-year-old former contract serviceman who had been sentenced to a year and six months in prison for reporting false bomb threats to police, has been pardoned by Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan,..

Armenian Soldier in Critical Condition After Being Shot in Head

Armenian Soldier in Critical Condition After Being Shot in Head

Aznavur Baleyan, a military conscript serving in a Nagorno-Karabakh unit, is in critical but stable condition after being shot in the head on November 22 during an argument with a fellow serviceman, News.am reports,..

Armenia Failed to Protect Conscript’s Right to Life, ECHR Rules

Armenia Failed to Protect Conscript’s Right to Life, ECHR Rules

The investigating authority, while having eyewitness evidence suggesting that there had been no obvious acts of physical abuse in respect of Suren Muradyan during the argument of 21 July 2002,...

Soldier Subjected to Violent Beating by Commander Soon Died from Sarcoma Complications

Soldier Subjected to Violent Beating by Commander Soon Died from Sarcoma Complications

When the soldier went home on leave a few months later, Ghazaryan continued, he was limping and there was a severe wound on his leg; “It was so deep and the pain was so intense that I had to take him to the hospital...

Parents of Dead Armenian Soldiers Do Not Trust Government's Military Compensation Plan

Parents of Dead Armenian Soldiers Do Not Trust Government's Military Compensation Plan

The parents, who had gathered outside the government offices on Thursday morning, expressed skepticism over the plan, insisting that the citizens' contribution would hardly serve their actual purpose. “Look what's happening ...

Families Blame Armenian Soldiers' Deaths in April on Weapons Shortage and Malfunctioning Equipment

Families Blame Armenian Soldiers' Deaths in April on Weapons Shortage and Malfunctioning Equipment

The human rights organization has published a report on its findings, stressing that most of the soldiers' families linked the deaths with a shortage of ammunition ...

Tenants of Dilapidated and Unsafe Buildings in Armenian Village Still Waiting for New Apartments

Tenants of Dilapidated and Unsafe Buildings in Armenian Village Still Waiting for New Apartments

Residents of the third emergency building in Lenughi were given money from the 2015 regional budget – 6,6 million drams (about $13 700) per family, villager Gayane Poghosyan said; “The governor said then that the allocations would...