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Armenian NSS Revealed Tax Evasion in State Privileged Company
Armenia's Nаtional Security Service has revealed illegal customs clearance schemes in Norfolk Consulting LLC and arrested 4 people, including the CEO of the company...Read More »
Suspect’s Relatives Stalk Czech Sexual Harassment Victim in Armenia
The woman claims that she was exposed to unprofessional conduct during the forensic examination, too. The doctor allegedly implied that the woman must have provoked... Read More »
Former Employees of Idling Textile Plant Demand back Wages
“We officially addressed this issue to the former Prime Minster Karen Karapetyan for 5 times. Each time the answer was that they were working on it. We came today to see whether there is any help...Read More »
Citizens Attacked for Demanding Yerevan Mayor Resignation
“We were walking down Baghramyan Avenue at around 20:00, when a black Mercedes-Benz ML (No. 70 MX 070) approached us from the distance of some 100 meters a man...Read More »
Pashinyan Invites Acting PM Karapetyan to Negotiations
I urge everyone to temporarily stop blocking streets in Yerevan so that we are able to return traffic in the capital to normal. We can’t allow people to take advantage of the...Read More »
‘Pashinyan Was Right; I Was Wrong;’ Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan Resigns (Live Thread)
The striking students of Yerevan State University intend to start a march from the university yard. Several parents have also joined the students. The demonstrators are chanting, “Free, Independent Student!”Read More »
Thousands Continue Flooding Yerevan Streets After Pashinyan Arrest (Live Thread)
Once Pashinyan was taken care of, riot police then used stun grenades against the crowd and began mass beatings and detentions...Read More »
US Embassy in Armenia Urges Authorities to Refrain from Violence Against Peaceful Demonstrators
We urge the government to show restraint to allow for peaceful protest and we urge those exercising their freedom of assembly to do so responsibly, to avoid violence, and to prevent an escalatio...Read More »
VIDEO: Police Start Carrying Out Sargsyan’s Threats of Repeating 2008 Deadly Post-Election Clashes
Leaders Nikol Pashinyan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Sasun Mikayelyan were detained by police on the spot. The Special Investigation Service later reported that the three had...Read More »
VIDEO: Serzh Sargsyan Threatens Pashinyan With March 1 to Make Him Stop Fighting
Armenia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan today reminded opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan about the 2008 March 1 deadly post-election clashes to...Read More »