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ARMENICUM free of charge for HIV/AIDS patients
The 2011 draft budget provides for 50 million AMD (about U.S. $140,000) for free treatment of HIV/AIDS patients with ARMENICUM. It is for the first time that funds have been budgeted for this purpose. The funds will...
Mariam Demands Moral Damage Compensation
On  1st of November social activist Mariam Sukhudyan's lawsuit against the RoA Police Chief Alik Sargsyan and the Head of the Police Department on Public Relations Sayat Shirinyan was heard at the Court of General...
Mariam Against Police Chief
Environmental activist Mariam Sukhudyan received a notification from the Kentron and Nork Marash Court that her appeal against the RoA Police will be considered on November 1, at 12 o'clock. Recall Mariam Sukhudyan...
A. Zaqaryan: Azerbaijan to provoke similar intolerant style
"With great feeling of grief we have witnessed another tragic murder of our Armenian soldier in the eastern parts of our defensive positions, which appears to happen just on the eve of the presidents' meeting. It seems...
The Situation with the Corruption in our Country and beyond its Borders
A press conference was held at 1:00 pm, on October 26, 2010, at Congress Hotel, where Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center presented Transparency International's...
Azerbaijan presented Manvel Saribekyan’s death certificate to ICRC
Azerbaijani authorities presented the death certificate of Armenian captive Manvel Saribekyan to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Ashot Astabatsyan, a representative of the International Committee of the...
Ex-Police Officer Faces 8-Year Jail Term in Custody Death Case
Major Ashot Harutiunian, the former chief of criminal investigations at the police department of Charentsavan, a small town about 40 kilometers north of Armenian capital Yerevan, was arrested in late April and...
Armenia Worries Over Groundwater Depletion
Worried residents of the Ararat valley, which sits above 60 per cent of the country's 2.4 billion m3 of underground water reserves, say the farms could cause pollution of groundwater and deprive agricultural land of...
Cooperation Agreement on Ensuring Rights of Ethnic Minorities to be Signed between the Governments of Armenia and Belarus
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, ARMENPRESS: Cooperation agreement on ensuring rights of ethnic minorities will be signed between the governments of Armenia and Belarus. Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan said today at the session...
Armenia ranked 101 in Press Freedom Index list
Armenia is ranked 101 (out of 178 states) in the 2010 Press Freedom Index list issued by Reporters Without Borders organization. In 2009 Armenia occupied 111 line. Georgia is ranked 99, whereas Azerbaijan only 152...