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Pension Reform Remains Unclear After Parliamentary Committee Discussion
Acting RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Artem Asatryan at a meeting of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Social Affairs...Read More »
Victims of Armenian Genocide Commemorated in Yerevan: Multimedia Photo Essay
Epress.am presents a multimedia photo essay based on materials collected on April 24, 2014, from Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan.Read More »
How Russia Betrayed the Armenians in 1915: Lessons from the Armenian Genocide
" General Yudenich ordered not to give Armenian refugees land in the Alashkert region, [as he] was waiting for a large influx of refugees from Don and Kuban who were going to...Read More »
Another Family Protests Outside Presidential Palace, But Persuaded to Go Home
Karabakh War veteran Hakob Tadevosyan, with his wife and four children on Wednesday began a sit-in outside the presidential palace.Read More »
When We in Turkey Will Become Free: Turkish Journalist on Lessons Learned from the Genocide
"But I am struck by the idea of the existence of such families who could have adopted orphaned children and seized their property and become rich because of...Read More »
Family of Soldier Killed in Karabakh Lives in Dilapidated Makeshift Hut
Living for more than a quarter century in crumbling makeshift huts are hundreds of families not on the waiting lists for apartments supplied by the state.Read More »
Sister of Man Accused of Beating His Wife Gives Contradictory Testimony: Lawyer
According to the lawyer, the witness basically completely repeated the other sister's testimony, which was given at a previous hearing — but with one significant difference.Read More »
Woman Who Released Mouse Outside Government Building Fined 20,000 AMD
A large number of police officers at around 7:30 pm on Thursday followed Karabakh War veteran Susanna Margaryan to her home, with the intention of detaining her...Read More »
Child of Poor Family Doesn’t Go to School, Newborn Doesn’t Have Birth Certificate: Shirak Centre NGO
The 8-year-old daughter of a family living in extreme poverty has never gone to school, and the newborn child doesn't have a birth certificate.Read More »
Conflicting Witness Testimonies and Pressure on Karabakh War Veteran’s Supporters
At today's trial in the case against him, Reserve Colonel, Karabakh War veteran Volodya Avetisyan arrived wearing a black shirt with white lettering that read "Regime, I am Armenian, kill me"...Read More »