2026, 21 May, Thursday
‘Cover Your Noses; Let’s Go to the Wastewater’

‘Cover Your Noses; Let’s Go to the Wastewater’

- Do they think there are no pregnant women in these 5 buildings? And that Mr. Gor Vardanyan… Did he think he was on a movie set? Was he trying to show off his biceps?”

Statement Following Attack on Female Oppositionists Addresses Gender Inequality and Power Imbalance in Armenia

Statement Following Attack on Female Oppositionists Addresses Gender Inequality and Power Imbalance in Armenia

We can reject victimhood and get back the power over our own bodies only through revenge...

Yerevan Police Use Disproportionate Force Against Protesters Condemning Morning Violence Against Oppositionists

Yerevan Police Use Disproportionate Force Against Protesters Condemning Morning Violence Against Oppositionists

We, those gathered outside the Yerevan City Hall, see no other way but to come here and demand that the Council of Elders is cleared from...

Shirak Professor Ends Hunger Strike; Does Not Intend to Stop Fighting

Over the past days, the rector never tried to initiate a meeting the hunger-striking professor. Only once was he approached by deputy rector Anahit Farmanyan, who urged Khorikyan...

Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor

Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor

Female members of the ruling party, for their part, criticized the Yerkir Tsirani representatives’ behaviour as “unbecoming of an Armenian mother and an Armenian woman.”

Shirak University Students Boycott Classes to Support Hunger-Striking Professor

Shirak University Students Boycott Classes to Support Hunger-Striking Professor

The boycotting students have written an open letter to rector Minasyan and Education and Science Minister Levon Mkrtchyan, demanding  that they address the concerns raised...

Protesting Oppositionist Subjected to Physical Violence by Republicans

Protesting Oppositionist Subjected to Physical Violence by Republicans

A member of the opposition Yerkir Tsirani faction, Marine Khachatryan, was on Tuesday subjected to physical violence in the Council of Elders of Yerevan by members of Armenia’s ...

Armenian Political Prisoner Calls for Participation in ‘Agreed-Upon War’

- Aliyev is in a rush, because international, regional and internal developments are becoming increasingly more unfavorable and dangerous for him and his regime...

Justice Ministry’s New Bill to Grant Monopoly to Armenian Apostolic Church

Justice Ministry’s New Bill to Grant Monopoly to Armenian Apostolic Church

No religious organizations apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church will be allowed to receive foreign financial assistance; all members of a religious organization will have to...

History Professor in Shirak Goes on Hunger Strike to Fight Rector’s ‘Atrocities’

History Professor in Shirak Goes on Hunger Strike to Fight Rector’s ‘Atrocities’

Back in September 2017, Khorikyan and another employee of the university, Kachik Hambaryan, wrote an open letter to president Serzh Sargsyan, in which they “described in detail how Minasyan...

Yerevan Students Movement Puts Fighting Army Problems on Hold to Combat Toilet Paper Issue

Yerevan Students Movement Puts Fighting Army Problems on Hold to Combat Toilet Paper Issue

Davit Petrosyan, a founding member of the “There Will Be Deferments” and “For the Development of Science” initiatives, said in conversation with Epress.am that YSU Restart...

19-Year-Old Soldier Dies in Stepanakert of Acute Infection

A conscript soldier of the Artsakh Defense Army, 19-year-old Hayk S Hakobyan, died on February 8 in the central military hospital of Stepanakert. The soldier’s death...