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Locals Talk About Consequences of Teghut Mine Exploitation
- They have given the conscripts bank cards to make it easier for us to transfer them money for socks and clothes… Military service was not so terrible in the past...Read More »
Yerevan Pharmacists Concerned Over Health Ministry Decision to Extend List of Prescription Only Medications
She added that chronic patients have worked out what medications best suit their needs and always buy the same drugs, without having to go to a doctor every single time and...Read More »
Women In Armenia Have No Power to Persuade Their Partners to Undergo HIV Testing
Out of the 214 female respondents, only 0.1% know about post-exposure prophylaxis. The majority of women do not know where in their province ...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 »
‘Only 17’ Inmates Died in Armenian Prisons in 2017, Penitentiary Department Representative Says
What’s more, he continued, the authorities do not take any serious measures to eliminate hierarchical relations among inmates; “Prison officials even say that this system is good for keeping...Read More »
Jailed Yerevan Gunman Ends 27-Day Hunger Strike
- He feels well; he has been given an individual cell, and as far as we know, the prison officials have no intention of transferring him back to his old cell...Read More »
Former Conscript’s Family Still Uncertain How Son Received Serious Head Injury While In Service
“[Officials] are not telling the whole truth. The kid has yet to say anything concrete as well. He once said that the driver was to blame, but now he says he remembers nothing...Read More »
Armenia’s Defense Minister Starts Crowdfunding to Help Out Injured Soldier, Insults Opponents of His ‘Humane’ Initiative
Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan, for his part, was quick to come to Sargsyan’s defense. “Everyone seems to think that...Read More »
Former Sanitek Employee Unable to Claim Social Benefits
The woman who was hit by a car in March 2016 as she tried to cross the street to carry out her street-cleaning. On the day of the accident, according to a past interview ...Read More »
Palestinian Doctor Claims Arab Students Illegally Buy Dentists Diplomas from Armenian Universities
Some of these people were able to get these diplomas within a few weeks; I’m convinced that there is a criminal group in Armenia which carries out this operation. There are...Read More »