2026, 22 May, Friday
Yerevan Residents Willing to Take 'Drastic Measures' to Fight for Their Rights

Yerevan Residents Willing to Take 'Drastic Measures' to Fight for Their Rights

As for the proposed alternative apartments, Geravetyan said they were in a newly constructed building on Pushkin street which the tenants of nearby buildings have continuously been protesting against...

Teenage Opposition Activist Attacked in Yerevan

Teenage Opposition Activist Attacked in Yerevan

16-year-old Hovhannes Harutyunyan, a child from a large family of a Karabakh war veteran living in difficult social conditions, has sustained serious bodily injuries, New Armenia said...

Court Official Promises to 'Resolve Issue' as Mothers of Dead Armenian Soldiers Scuffle with Bailiffs

Court Official Promises to 'Resolve Issue' as Mothers of Dead Armenian Soldiers Scuffle with Bailiffs

Poladyan once again agreed that court officials should have had warned the women; however, he added that he had to listen to the other side also “to understand the reason for their failure to notify you properly...

Election Commission Member Denied Salary for Refusing to Sign 'Fabricated' Referendum Deed

Election Commission Member Denied Salary for Refusing to Sign 'Fabricated' Referendum Deed

Currently Sardaryan is trying to get the salary she is owed for working on December 6. Officials at the territorial election commission have told the woman she would not receive any money unless she signed the deeds, which Sardaryan finds “ridiculous...

Family of Dead Armenian Prisoner Finds Suicide Implausible

Family of Dead Armenian Prisoner Finds Suicide Implausible

The 21-year-old man, as stated by HCAV, participated in a might on December 21, 2015 in the Armenian town of Armavir. He then turned himself in to the police and was arrested on the spot. Three days later,..

Armenian Oppositionist Threatened with Jail: Press

The members of the opposition movement, however, are convinced the real reason behind the threat is Founding Parliament's recent statement calling on Armenians to “take up arms in self-defense, if necessary...

Swine Flu Death Toll Reaches 7 in Armenia; Disease Subsiding, Health Ministry Insists

Swine Flu Death Toll Reaches 7 in Armenia; Disease Subsiding, Health Ministry Insists

In the last two sentences of the statement the ministry reported: “The 7th death has been recorded. Diagnosis and other details will become clear after an examination....

Veteran Arrested for Selling Weapons to Armenian 'Crime Gang' on Month-Long Hunger Strike: Press

The veteran's wife, Ruzan Hovhannisyan, told Haykakan Zhamanak that her husband has been refusing not only food, but also water. The woman also claimed that her husband had had nothing to do with neutralized gang...

Verdict in Yerevan District Court Postponed Due to Judge's Unexpected Transfer

Speaking to Epress.am, the mothers' representative, Haykuhi Harutyunyan, called the situation “absurd.” She stressed that the latest decision on the replenishment of the lists concerning professional advancement ...

Swine Flu Kills 6 in Armenia, Hundreds Hospitalized

As regards the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, the deputy minister stated that it was not to be taken without a prescription: the drug is envisaged for the treatment of an already existing disease and has no preventive effects on swine flu...

76 Soldiers Died in Armenia and Karabakh Armies in 2015: Report

76 Soldiers Died in Armenia and Karabakh Armies in 2015: Report

Besides the above mentioned, there were other 4 deaths of Armenian soldiers registered [in 2015], two of whom were servicemen of the Russian troops in Armenia, one – a soldier of Armenia's...

Armenian Publicist Believes Threats Against Her Were Guided

Armenian Publicist Believes Threats Against Her Were Guided

The attacks on Hovhannisyan started following her January 3 post on Facebook in support of arrested opposition activist Gevorg Safaryan: the publicist had shared a photo of a t-shirt with the image of Safaryan...