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Euro Court in Going to Speed Up the Hearing of Cases
Great as the hopes are to restore justice in the Euro Court, the time you spend waiting for it to make a decision makes people desperate. In answer to the questions of «A1+» the president of the European Court of Human...
Armenians ‘Want Elected Governors’
Nearly two in three Armenians living outside Yerevan would like to elect their regional governors currently appointed by the central government, according to an opinion poll released on Friday. Under the existing post-...
Opposition Parties Vow Joint Fight Against Constitutional Changes
The Artarutyun (Justice) bloc and eight other Armenian opposition groups pledged on Thursday to work together to scuttle the passage of President Robert Kocharian’s draft constitutional amendments at a referendum due in...
Venice Commission to Express Opinion on Constitutional Reforms in Armenia
Commission and representatives from other international organizations are to hold a round table with representatives of Armenian political parties, media and civil society on constitutional reform. They will discuss...
Violations and Voter Lists Mar Otherwise Peaceful Election-Day
Press Release It’s Your Choice NGO Yerevan, 27 September, 2005 On September 25, 2005 in the Yerevan communities of Arabkir and Kentron, IYC election monitors observed local elections for community heads and councils in...
No Election Without Violation
Contrary to foreign observers Electoral Systems public organization has fixed various violations during the election held in Kentron and Arabkir. The observers visited 12 out of 49 polling stations of Arabkir community...
Armenia: New wave of Jehovah's Witness sentences begins
Shaliko Sarkissian became the first Jehovah's Witness who abandoned alternative service because it remains under defence ministry control to be punished. On 15 September a court in the capital Yerevan imprisoned him for...
Human Rights Defender's Statement on Inadmissibility of Raising Tariff for Telephone Communications
Recently it became well-known that telecommunication company “Armentel” applied to the Government of the Republic of Armenia with a request to provide with new tariffs for the city telecommunication with anticipated...
More Than Half Will Not Participate In the Elections
The elections of the local governing bodies started yesterday. Before the official data about the results of the elections and the percent of participation of the electors we will represent the results of our internet...
More Yerevan Homeowners Face Eviction
Over a thousand families living in a wooded neighborhood on the northern outskirts of Yerevan are facing eviction from their homes which the municipal and law-enforcement authorities say were built illegally in Soviet...