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Armenian People Should Make Sure Of Changes Of Corruption Rate On Its Own
YEREVAN, April 17. /ARKA/. The Armenian people should make sure of tendencies of increase or decrease in the corruption rate. Head of the OSCE Yerevan Office Vladimir Pryakhin reported on Monday at the opening ceremony...
US cannot be trusted to act responsibly in the world: global poll
CHICAGO, April 18, 2007 (AFP) - There is widespread global concern that the United States cannot be trusted to act responsibly in the world, according to a multinational poll released here Wednesday. But while there...
The Group of Public Observers of the RA Police System Presented Its First Report
Today, on March 17th , at the American University Business Center, the Group of Public Observers at the Detention Facilities of the RA Police System presented its first report, which you can read by visiting the Group’s...
Tensions Persist In Armenian Constituency
Tensions continued to run high in an electoral district just south of Yerevan on Monday despite the highly controversial disqualification of the two main challengers of the local government-backed candidate. Police in...
Radical Oppositionists Stick To ‘Revolution’ Theme
Armenia’s most radical opposition party rallied more than a thousand supporters in Yerevan on Thursday, telling them to be ready for a “democratic revolution” which it said could follow the May 12 parliamentary...
“Properous Armenia” Headquarters Blew Up
Today early at dawn one of the Headquarters of “Prosperous Armenia” party was blown up. The latter was in the address of Narekatsi 39, bld. 16. The chairman told “A1+”that there was a bomb in front of the door. Not only...
Armenian Parties Kick Off Election Campaign
Three of Armenia’s leading political parties presented their manifestos to the public on Monday one day after the official start of campaigning for the May 12 parliamentary elections. The governing Armenian...
Youth Group Pushes For Change
Onnik Krikorian 4/05/07 Youth in newspaper hats stand on street corners and read aloud from Armenian dailies. Masked young people march by parliament yelling "Don’t Eat Too Much!" at deputies. It’s election season in...
Armenian Ombudsman Laments Lack Of Court Independence
Armen Harutiunian, the state human rights ombudsman, complained on Wednesday about a continuing lack of judicial independence in Armenia, saying that local courts were the main source of citizen complaints received by...
Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan will remain in pre-trial detention for two additional months
The Court of First Instance of Kentron and Norq Marash communities decided to prolong the terms of detention of Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan for two months.