Yerevan Students Block Central Street as Parliament Abolishes Military Draft Deferments
Individual protesters engaged in scuffles with law enforcement officers; some of them were lightly beaten or dragged by officers on the ground...
Government Armenia’s Largest ‘Grant Eater,’ Opposition MP Says
This list does not include the grants allocated by the OSCE, the Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, and a number of Indian, Ukrainian, Russian structures...
Officials ‘Have Right to Live’ in Armenia, Too, State Revenue Committee Chairman Argues
There are, of course, law-abiding business owners, and we are thankful for these people. But there are those who try to hide under the veil of...
Hundreds of Business Owners Protest Against Tax Code Amendments Outside Parliament
The amendments to the Tax Code, which are envisaged to enter into force on January 1, 2018, will also unnecessarily increase paperwork for business owners...
Students Protest Outside Parliament Building Against Planned Amendments to Military Draft in Armenia
Before militarizing the education and science sphere, the protesters argued, the Ministry of Defense should focus on eliminating corruption in other spheres...
Former Armenian MP Calls People Who Choose to Opt Out of Military Service ‘Second-Rate’
- There are countries where a young man who has not served in the army is perceived as a traitor to the nation, especially in countries that are at war. There are countries where...
Eight Tsarukyan Bloc Deputies Successfully Reinstate Their Parliamentary Mandates
According to the CEC chairman, the Commission had decided to reinstate 8 of the 12 applicants because the other 4 “were not actually elected to the parliament in the first place...
Peace and Levon Ter-Petrosyan's Elegant Exit from Politics
Ter-Petrosyan has done his very best for his party. But the party proved worthless. As to why such a talented and ingenious person is surrounded by such inept people, that is a completely...
Ruling Party Wins Armenian Parliamentary Elections With Nearly 50% of Votes
Armenia's Central Election Commission has published the preliminary vote results of Sunday's parliamentary elections, according to which, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia...
Mass Fraud, Voting Irregularities in Armenian Parliamentary Elections, Observer Mission Says
In the course of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Armenia, 3 122 independent and impartial observers of the local Citizen Observer monitoring mission recorded a total ...
Observers' Activities During Armenian Elections Hindered by Proxies
Members of the election commission, along with several proxies of various political parties and blocs, forcibly removed Voskanyan from the premises after the observer tried...
Reporters Covering Armenian Parliamentary Elections Attacked by Ruling Party Activists
Gabrielyan was soon forced by a young RPA activist to leave the office, after insisting that the journalist was “hampering our work” and “not letting us pay people’s wages...