High-Ranking Armenia Fund Official Admits Leadership 'Keeps Pocketing' Donations
The Fund official went on to publicly claim that the facts presented in “To Donate or Not to Donate” were lies: “The thing is that this paper, one could say, is completely based on newspapers, which are strictly oppositional; their publications...
Yerevan School Denies Beating of Syrian-Armenian Student, Urges Media 'to Be Delicate'
On a different note, from now own we urge you not to separate our Syrian-Armenian pupils from the others; it's unacceptable, especially considering the fact that the school has been successfully...
Syrian-Armenian Student Attacked by Group of Schoolmates (Video)
Speaking to the outlet's reporter, school headmaster Natalya Stepanyan claimed claimed she was “unaware of the incident.” “A Syrian-Armenian? I don't know, I've no idea...
Alleged Murderer of Armenian Lawyer Believed to Have Had 'Property Dispute' With His Bank
Poghosyan, officials said, is a client of the bank where the murdered lawyer used to work. According to preliminary information, the 54-year-old man had a property dispute with the bank and had...
Verdict in Favor of Republican Lawmaker Upheld by Armenia's Appeal Court
The Armenian Court of Appeal on Tuesday, November 25, rejected a challenge filed by human rights activist, Head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office Artur Sakunts against law ...
Women's Rights Activists March in Yerevan against Domestic Violence (Photo)
The publicist added that the law should be adopted urgently since women's rights organizations are “unable to deal” with all the consequences of violence. “First of all, they can't manage to. And secondly, there are issues ...
Security Forces Uncover Organized Crime Group in Yerevan
Arthur Vardanyan, as well as nine other members of the group who were at the house at the moment of the search were arrested, NSS stated, adding that a criminal case has been initiated pursuant to parts 1 and 2 ...
Young Lawyer Fatally Shot in Downtown Yerevan
A criminal case has been launched over the killing. Meanwhile, the official website of the Armenian Police reported today that through operational intelligence measures law enforcement officers have determined...
Head of NA Committee on Social Affairs Among Armenia's Wealthiest Lawmakers: Press
- Hakobyan declared AMD 26 million 700 thousand (about $55,321) and $132 thousand in financial assets for the last year. Meanwhile, in 2012, having only recently become an MP, Hakobyan had declared 9 land lots...
Former Armenian School Head Charged for Violence against Students
In addition, preliminary investigation found that “in the period 2010-2014, Margaryan subjected up to 14 'troublesome' students to violence” during various school events in the course of the educational process,..
Family of 26-Year-Old Armenian Woman Blames Doctors for Stillbirth
Mkhitaryan added that on November 19 on-call doctor Ani Sirunyan decided to induce labor and deliver the baby. “[Shahbazyan] was examined twice during this period. Then the doctors delivered another baby by c-section...
Study Found 30% of Armenians Lived in Poverty in 2014
Officials added that Armenia's capital city Yerevan had the lowest poverty rate in the country – 25.2%, which was 1.4 times lower compared to other urban communities...