“Only Hope Is Self-Organization”: When Downtown Yerevan Makes Sense
“Because the most advanced layer of society – I call them Internet generation and remains of jeans generation, which have not merged with bourgeoisie or bureaucrats – have found each other and felt each other's strength...
Armenian Armed Forces and NKR Defense Army Deaths Increased in First Half of 2015
According to official data, 22 of the 34 registered deaths occurred due to ceasefire violations, 3 due to unfortunate accidents, 2 murders (1 intentional murders, 1 violation of firearm regulations), 1 breach of combat duty or military duty...
"Protest Rally No Place for Children": Armenian Police Official Justifies Force Against Minors
“I am a mother of a minor child. My daughter saw that her mother was being detained and ran up here. She was on the back with a baton, and some doctor slapped her on the back and said: "You're fine, go home...
Former Armenian PM Proposes Plan for Energy Reforms
The RA Public Services Regulatory Commission decided on June 17 to increase the tariff for electricity supplied to consumers by 6.93 drams. Starting August 1, 2015, a kilowatt-hour of energy will cost 48.78 drams...
Armenian Protesters Against Hike in Electricity Rates Go on Hunger Strike
Deputy Yerevan Police Chief Valery Osipyan approached the demonstrators and asked about the basis for the hunger strike. One of the protesters advised the young men not to waste energy answering Osipyan’s questions...
Victims of Police Brutality During Yerevan Protest Dispersal Appeal to ECtHR
Urgent appeals are provided for cases where there is a possibility of crime prevention; such applications allow to circumvent domestic courts. The complaint, Ioannisyan said, was lodged two days ago: the plaintiffs...
Mass Mobilization: Armenian Demonstrators Form New Agenda
On June 29, some of the demonstrators created open working groups: it was decided that there would be round-the-clock watch on Baghramyan Avenue, an information stand would be set up, [the groups] would organize,,,
Demonstration in Downtown Yerevan Enters Stage of Self-Organization
Meanwhile, the “No to Robbery” initiative group which had separated from the demonstration on Baghramyan Avenue and rallied on Freedom Square in Yerevan on Sunday, announced later in the evening that...
Armenian Police Trying to Dismantle Barricades on Yerevan Protest Site
In response, people started chanting “Shame! Shame!” and climbed on the garbage cans, trying to prevent their seizure. Protesters demanded that police present official documents regarding the complaint and the initiated criminal case...
VIDEO From Demonstration Site in Downtown Yerevan
At the beginning of the rally, “No to Robbery” suggested moving the protest to the Freedom Square in central Yerevan; soon after, the members of the group and about two hundred protesters left Baghramyan Avenue....
Armenian Police Threaten to Forcibly Disperse Protest, People Refuse to Leave (Updated)
At the beginning of the rally, one of the “No to Robbery” leaders Vaghinak Shushanyan suggested to move the protest to the Freedom Square in central Yerevan. However, demonstrators answered him with shouts of “Shame!” and “On Baghramyan!”
RA Government to Subsidize Cost of Increased Electricity Rates “at the Expense of Taxpayers”
Sargsyan urged “some of the most active young protesters” to get involved in the audit, calling for them to end the round-the-clock sit-in on central Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan and “stop paralyzing the city center...