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Pro-Government MP Blamed For Deadly Beating
A senior employee of Armenia’s state television and radio on Tuesday blamed a pro-government parliamentarian notorious for reportedly violent conduct for an attack on a Yerevan café that left one of his friends dead....
Rivals Trade Fraud Charges Ahead Of Yerevan Vote
The two main candidates in a key local election in Yerevan on Friday accused each other of planning to falsify vote results. Ararat Zurabian, an opposition leader recently released from jail, is challenging the...
Armenian Police ‘Open’ To Public Oversight
The Armenian police on Wednesday unveiled plans to ask prominent public figures to join a new supervisory body that will be charged with making police activities more transparent and preventing human rights abuses by...
Armenia Slides In Global Corruption Rankings
The situation with government corruption in Armenia has continued to slowly but steadily deteriorate in the past year, according to the latest global survey released by a respected anti-graft watchdog on Tuesday. Every...
Armenian Police ‘Not Responsible’ For Post-Election Violence
Armenian security forces do not bear responsibility for the deaths of at least ten people in their post-election clashes with opposition protesters in Yerevan, the recently appointed chief of the national police said on...
Council Of Europe Congress To Observe Local Elections In Armenia
Strasbourg, 23.09.2008 A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe will pay a visit to Armenia, from 25 to 29 September, to observe the local elections for the renewal of the...
It’s Too Early To Speak About Ignoring Implementation Of “A1+” Obligations
The Government of Armenia will take all the measures to ensure the implementation of the obligations defined by the European Court of Human Rights on A1+ case, announced the Ministry of the Justice. According to the...
RA President Signed The Addition To The Broadcast Law
On September 12 the President of Armenia Serge Sargsian signed the RA Law “On Introducing an Addition to the RA Law ‘On Television and Radio’”, according to which the conductance of broadcast licensing competitions is...
Armenian Opposition Worried About Minsk Group’s Future
A spokesman for the opposition leader has accused Armenia’s leadership of taking action contradicting its own official statements that oppose any change in the current format of the Nagorno-Karabakh talks. Arman...
Armenia Sees Rise in Claims to European Court
Armenia registered an increase by nearly a third in the number of legal complaints from its citizens to Strasbourg in 2007, according to the Justice Ministry. “After the Republic of Armenia ratified the European...