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Seven Die in Major Car Accident in Shirak Marz
The 70-year old Kamaz driver M. Vardanyan has been arrested. In connection with the incident, a criminal case has been launched based on the Criminal Code’s Article 242.3...Read More »
National Assembly to Discuss a Bill on Karabakh’s Recognition
National Assembly Speaker Galust Sahakyan stressed that the discussion will take place tomorrow at 2:30pm , because the Heritage faction presented the draft as an urgent issue...Read More »
90% of Armenian Trade Conducted in Yerevan: Zhoghovurd
-It turns out, approximately 2 million people in Armenia, who live in the provinces, are implementing very insignificant amounts of trade, essentially it is completely absent. With no exaggeration...Read More »
No Privileges for Armenian Migrant Workers in Russia After Entering EEU
The NGO stresses that the only privilege the EEU gives to migrant workers of member states is the right to free “emergency care,” the agreement does not foresee any other privileges...
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Two Villages in Aragatsotn Marz Fight Over Drinking Water
The two villages receive water from the same source, and Shgharshik residents often close the water pipes going to their neighboring village...Read More »
Citizens Detained on November 5th Protest Charged with Administrative Offenses
Rally participants were taken into custody at the Yerevan Kentron Police Department and were charged with Administrative offenses stipulated by the Administrative Offenses Code, Article 172.2...Read More »
Armenian Political Prisoner Released From Prison
Tigran Petrosyan, who was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the case of political prisoners Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, was released from prison today...Read More »
Discrimination in Armenia is Encouraged on a State Level: Statement
The statement presents the conviction that such attitudes toward citizens, sponsored on a state level, create an environment of impunity and fertile soil for stronger manifestations of hate crimes in the future...Read More »
Armenia’s Signed International Agreement Conflicts with EEU Treaty
- Armenia is the only CIS country that has really approached European Union standards, and now, we are changing our vector and going toward Russia and Belarus, whose legislation implementation level is much lower...Read More »
Armenia’s EEU Treaty Demanded to be Publicly Discussed by Constitutional Court
The NGO notes that according to the law, international contracts at the Constitutional Court are discussed by written procedures, except for those situations where the contract is presented with large public interests...Read More »