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Parliament Panel Rebuffs Government Over Ombudsman Rights
A key parliament committee rejected on Friday a government proposal to curtail the powers of Armenia’s top official in charge of human rights protection. The National Assembly’s committee on legal affairs voted...
Prominent Anti-Semite Handed Suspended Jail Term
An Armenian ultranationalist politician notorious for his anti-Semitic discourse walked free on Friday after receiving a suspended three-year prison sentence for inciting ethnic hatred. A district court in Yerevan...
Armenian Ultranationalist Tried For Anti-Semitism
An ultranationalist Armenian politician who called for the expulsion of all Jews from the country went on trial on Thursday nearly two months after his arrest and prosecution. Armen Avetisian, who leads a small party...
European Interior Ministers Debate Anti-Terrorism and Organised Crime Measures at Council of Europe Warsaw Conference
Strasbourg 14.03.2005 - Interior Ministers from Council of Europe member states are to meet in Warsaw for a conference reviewing new measures at European level to combat terrorism and organised crime (17 and 18 March...
Council of Europe: Congress Spring Session to focus on sustainable development
Water management, local and regional waste management, problems of regenerating mining and industrial areas, and the siting of waste dumps will feature among the themes of the Spring Session of the Congress of Local and...
A Demonstration Took Place in Akhalkalak Uniting About Ten Thousand People
Today a demonstration took place in Akhalkalak uniting about ten thousand people. The demonstration started at 10:00 AM and lasted till 1:00 PM. After the demonstration the participants did not dissipate and on the main...
Venice Commission discusses Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Italy and Serbia
Strasbourg, 10 March 2005 – The constitutional situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the powers of the High Representative, judicial reform in Georgia and the status of South Ossetia, media freedom in Italy - these...
Armenians ‘Unaware Of Constitutional Reform’
Less than one in ten Armenians knows what President Robert Kocharian and his ruling coalition want to change in Armenia's post-Soviet constitution, according to an opinion poll released on Friday. The Armenian Center...
Building in Abovyan Street, In Construction Lot of Northern Avenue Built in Center of Yerevan, will Be Preserved
The building in Abovyan street, which is on one of the lots of the Northern Avenue built in the center of Yerevan, will be preserved, the chief architect of the capital, Head of the Town Planning Department of Yerevan...
Omission of Two State Structures
Today residents of Yerevan organized a picket near one of the 100-year-old buildings situated in the Abovyav Street. Once the building ¼ was a dwelling house, its residents received compensations and left. They have no...