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European Court Obliges Armenia to Pay 20,000 Euros for Imprisoning Conscientious Objectors
On Jan. 10, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released two new judgments protecting the right of conscientious objectors in ...Read More »
For Years People have been Confusing Date of Old New Year’s Day: Armenian Church
The Old New Year falls on Jan. 14 not Jan. 13, the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese of the Armenian Holy Apostolic Church reminded the public in a...Read More »
Orinats Yerkir Can’t Wipe Off its Traitor Image with Bleach, Believes Karapetyan
"Orinats Yerkir [Rule of Law] has been exhausted and cannot clean its traitor label with bleach. As for Prosperous Armenia, I'll say that it's a party of...Read More »
A Sausage a Day Could Lead to Cancer: Scientists
Eating one sausage a day or two rashers of bacon raises the risk of pancreatic cancer by a fifth, according to scientists in Sweden.Read More »
Current Authorities will be ‘Swallowed’ Just as Ter-Petrossian ‘Swallowed’ Kocharian, Sargsyan: Opinion
"The main purpose of political parties today is to rule, to hoard money; that's why just by being an [average] official they all become billionaires...Read More »
Investigation into Tamamyan Case Might Go to Court by End of this Month
It's likely that the criminal investigation into the case of former head of the RA Police General Department of Criminal Intelligence Hovhannes Tamamyan...Read More »
PACE Co-Rapporteurs to Visit Armenia Next Week, Mother of Mar. 1 Victim Wants to Meet with Them
John Prescott and Axel Fischer, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia...Read More »
Online Suggestion Box a Peril for Putin
It took only a few hours after its launch on Thursday for Vladimir V. Putin’s presidential campaign website to become an object lesson in the hazards...Read More »
Goran Bregović in Armenia Donates $3,000 to Charity
On Jan. 11, internationally renowned musician and composer Goran Bregović was in Armenia upon the invitation of the Armenian DAR regional ...Read More »
Forecasts on Dashnaktsutyun Returning to Coalition are Propaganda: Seyranyan
Sociologist Aharon Adibekyan's forecast that Dashnaktsutyun (Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or ARF-D) might return to the ruling coalition in the...Read More »