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Armenian Coalition Hastens Election Of New Ombudsman
Armenia’s governing parties stepped up on Wednesday their efforts to elect a new human rights ombudsman after being apparently scolded by President Robert Kocharian for parliament’s unexpected rejection of his candidate...
Residents of Buzant Went to Zakharyan
«The right of property is not recognized and defended in the Republic of Armenia». This was the poster with which the five families from the Buzand street organized an act of complaint opposite the Yerevan municipality...
Lawyer Marina Janoyan Was Attacked
Today at about 02:20 p.m. on the Aleq Manoukyan street, near the central building of the Yerevan State University a car tried to run over lawyer Marina Janoyan. The car pulled up abruptly and a 30-year-old tall and...
Statement of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia
On February 4-6, 2006, for three days “Armenia”, “TV 5” and “ArmNews” TV companies, being under the control of the authorities, aired a piece, aimed at discrediting the activity of Helsinki Committee of Armenia. There...
Diaspora-Funded TV Denounced For Unmasking ‘Western Spies’
A television network sponsored by a U.S. philanthropist of Armenian descent and loyal to President Robert Kocharian faced on Friday an angry rebuttal of its apparent allegations that Armenia’s leading human rights...
Statement by President of the Yerevan Press Club Boris Navasardian
Since February 4, 2006 “Armenia”, “ArmNews” and “TV 5” TV channels repeatedly aired a piece with my participation, in which fragments of my interview were used. These fragments were cut out of the general context, there...
No Ombudsman Was Elected
Today in the National Assembly the elections of the Ombudsman took place with a closed poll. None of the two candidates (Armen Haroutyunyan and Ruben Torosyan) had the necessary number of votes. Armen Haroutyunyan was...
Reaching out to Armenia’s youth
Blogs have become a “journalistic medium” or in Armenian “lradvakan michotzarum,” explained Samvel Martirosyan at the lecture presentation held on February 7 at the Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Resource Center...
Constitutional Court To Rule On Mass Evictions In Yerevan
Nearly three dozen members of Armenia’s parliament asked the Constitutional Court on Tuesday to declare illegal the ongoing commercial redevelopment in downtown Yerevan which has resulted in evictions of hundreds of...
RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan Addressed a Letter Today to PACE Chairman
RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan addressed a letter today to PACE Chairman Rene van der Linden andCoE Secretary General Terry Devis, were expresses concern on the fact of barbaric distraction of Armenian medieval...