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One Day Without Cars: Drivers Encouraged to Walk or Bike Instead
World Car-Free Day is marked annually on Sept. 22. Organizers encourage people to walk, bike, use mass transit, work...Read More »
Russian Soldier Died in Gyumri
Oleg Tekhov, 22, who was serving in the Russian military base in Armenia's second-largest city, was run down by a car on...Read More »
Armenian PM Urges Facebook Users to Write Only in Armenian Letters
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, in a post on his Facebook page, urged all those posting comments in Armenian to...Read More »
Turkish Armenians Dream of an Armenia that is Truly Independent and Without Emigration
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Armenia, Epress.am's Turkish correspondent spoke with...Read More »
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Protests Unauthorized Release of Memoir
Assange said in a statement: "The events surrounding its unauthorized publication by Canongate are not about freedom of information...Read More »
Artists to Dismantle the System, Show the Other Side of ‘Independence’ in Yerevan
Armenian artists who oppose the official celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the country's independence will be...Read More »
Troy Davis: Timeline of Main Events in Legal Saga
Troy Davis has been executed in Jackson, Georgia, despite a swirl of international pleas for clemency in one of the highest-profile US execution cases in years.Read More »
‘In Next 20 Years We Will Build a Country Close to Our Ideals’: Armenian President
"Reinstating our statehood was a celebration, our dream come true, but first of all it was a responsibility. From that moment on... Read More »
‘Armenia’s Authorities Consider Themselves a Serf to Foreigners’: Ter-Petrossian on Independence
In Yerevan's central square this morning were people who not only had nothing to do with obtaining independence...Read More »
How Levon Ter-Petrossian Envisioned Independence in 1991: Leaked Cable
In May 1991, then Armenian Supreme Soviet Chair Levon Ter-Petrossian outlined to US Embassy officials his vision of the path to Armenia's independence.Read More »