2026, 21 May, Thursday
Demonstrators Protest Lake Sevan Proposal Outside Parliament

Demonstrators Protest Lake Sevan Proposal Outside Parliament

The initiative SOS Sevan held a protest today outside the National Assembly building, urging MPs to vote against a government proposal that environmentalists say...

Armenian Prisoners Tell Prison Monitoring Group How Police Beat Them to Extort Confessions

Armenian Prisoners Tell Prison Monitoring Group How Police Beat Them to Extort Confessions

He claims that during he interrogation, police employees uttered curses of a sexual nature in his and his mother's name and used force, harming his dignity.

Pension Reform Remains Unclear After Parliamentary Committee Discussion

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...

Victims of Armenian Genocide Commemorated in Yerevan: Multimedia Photo Essay

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.

How Russia Betrayed the Armenians in 1915: Lessons from the Armenian Genocide

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...

Another Family Protests Outside Presidential Palace, But Persuaded to Go Home

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.

When We in Turkey Will Become Free: Turkish Journalist on Lessons Learned from the Genocide

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...

Family of Soldier Killed in Karabakh Lives in Dilapidated Makeshift Hut

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.

Sister of Man Accused of Beating His Wife Gives Contradictory Testimony: Lawyer

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.

Woman Who Released Mouse Outside Government Building Fined 20,000 AMD

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...

Child of Poor Family Doesn't Go to School, Newborn Doesn't Have Birth Certificate: Shirak Centre NGO

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.

Conflicting Witness Testimonies and Pressure on Karabakh War Veteran's Supporters

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"...