Yerevan Kickstarts Fourth Day of Street Protests With Non-Violent Disobedience Acts
On Friday, April 13, several opposition initiatives - “Reject Serj”, “My Step” and “Front for Armenian State” - united their forces and rallied a few thousand demonstrators on ...
VIDEO: Uprising Against Sargsyan's Appointment as Prime Minister Paralyzes Armenian Capital
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Yerevan in an uprising against Serzh Sargsyan’s expected appointment as Armenia’s new Prime Minister. Groups of demonstrators...
Young Oppositionists Detained in Yerevan for ‘Dirtying Asphalt’
The young people were held at the station for about an hour and a half; the law enforcers have filed an administrative case against them for “dirtying the asphalt...
Opposition Group Holds First Rally Against Serzh Sargsyan’s Possible Appointment as Armenia’s Prime Minister
Those gathered at the Square today heard speeches from a number of members of the initiative, including For the State of Armenia representative Albert Baghdasaryan, who spoke...
Yerevan Civic Activist Subjected to Unnecessary Force by Police
The officers started to push and shove Gaspari around unnecessarily, trying to prevent him from standing on the sidewalk and causing him to feel unwell as a result...
Noyemberyan Residents to Keep Fighting for Final Termination of Mining Operations
Noyemberyan deputy village head Khachik Gishyan, meanwhile, believes that the region would benefit more from developing tourism and agriculture rather than the...
Demonstrators in Yerevan Demand Fair and Unbiased Investigation Into Hate Crimes
The protest action was spurred by the two most recent hate crimes committed in Yerevan over the past few months: on February 27, a transgender woman was...
Yerevan Penitentiary Seeks Compensation from Sasna Tsrer Gunman for Property Damage
- These items were not in the penitentiary’s inventory, and even if my client did damage these items, the Convicts’ Hospital is not entitled to compensation...
Hrazdan Police Try to ‘Help’ Atheist Boy to Find Right Path to Christianity
According to Vova, the men had told his mother that they had to take the boy to Yerevan for additional pre-conscription medical tests. “I do suffer from lung issues, so we...
Protesters March in Yerevan to Condemn Stepanakert Police’s Abusive Treatment of Yerevan Girl
Asya Khachatryan was subjected to violence and discrimination for the sole reason that she smokes and has blue hair. This incident cannot be left unpunished since...
The Immorality of Armenia’s Political Thinking
- The birth of the Republic of Armenia was unlawful: the people were deceived and, like any other bastard, they will always be haunted by the mystery of their birth...
Farmers in Armenian Villages Struggle to Get Irrigation Water
Farmers in a number of villages near the town of Etchmiadzin continue to struggle with lack of irrigation water. Nearly 300 hectares of agricultural plots have been left without water as employees of the local water utility insist “it’s not irrigation season yet.” “The irrigation season is open; we’ve already sown the seeds. The winds of recent days, meanwhile, caused all the sprouted seeds to dry up. We ask to give us water, but they say they won’t give any because the irrigation season does not open until April 1. That’s nonsense. Electricity cables are cut off, does not get any power ,” Artimet village resident Gagik Mirzakhanyan said in an interview with Epress.am. According to the farmer, employees of the Vagharshapat water utility have even gone so far as to blame the villagers for their own misfortune, saying: “Who told you to sow the seeds ahead of time?” and “Did you ask us before sowing?” “The villagers can afford not to ask permission from unknowledgeable people to start farming. The start of sowing depends largely on the weather conditions,” Mirzakhanyan argued. The desperate farmers have been dependant on the supply of water coming from melting snow to be able to water parts of their plots. The Vagharshapat water utility, the farmers claim, charges them 13 000 drams for water per 1 hectare of land.