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Levon Ter-Petrosyan to Run for Yerevan Mayor
Today, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of Armenia, was selected to head the ticket of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) in the upcoming Yerevan mayoral election. The selection of Ter-Petrosyan was made at a...
Bryusov University Security Staff Assault Reporters
Today, a large assembly of students had gathered outside the offices of the United Liberal National Party on Zarubyan Street, demanding that the party hand over evidence substantiating bribery charges against certain...
Worst of the Worst 2009 report released in Geneva
According to the report, Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan again ranked as the worst human rights abusers; inhabitants of two territories, Chechnya and Tibet,...
Yerevan Policemen Start 'Fighting' Bribery
Today Yerevan policemen started actively 'fighting' bribery. The reason of this fight were photos of dozen of teachers of local universities stuck at the bus stops, university walls and at other crowded places in the...
Global Financial Crisis Saves Teghut Forest From Cutting
Tree cutting in Teghut forest has been almost stopped because of the global financial crisis which hinders implementation of the programme on development of Teghut copper-molybdenum deposit in the north of Armenia,...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented on the US State Department Report
Tigran Balayan, Head of Media Relations Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia commented on the US State Department annual report on human rights which criticizes the human rights situation in Armenia. “The...
Heritage Party Still Undecided Regarding Mayoral Election
At a news conference held today, members of the Heritage Party faction in the National Assembly stated that the party still has not decided on whether it will run on a separate ticket for the upcoming May municipal...
Sarkisian Changes Yerevan Mayor
President Serzh Sarkisian replaced Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharian by another loyalist on Wednesday in a move apparently aimed at helping his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) win the upcoming elections of the first...
The Publication Of ”Hayk” Daily Has Resumed
On February 28, the publication of “Hayk” daily resumed. As it has been reported, the issue of the daily was suspended from February 20 due to the arrest of the newspaper’s property and assets. The arrest was applied on...
Amendments To Criminal Code Voted Without 5th Part Of Article 225
David Harutyunyan, the co-author of the draft of law making amendments to the Articles 225 and 300 of the Criminal Code and the President of the State and Legal Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, says he does...