The friends of Michael Sarukhanyan, who is participating in the Yerevan street protest against an electricity rate hike, had a surprise for him last night.
A phalanx of riot geared police confronted thousands of protesters marching up Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan yesterday evening.
Seeing their path was blocked, the marchers decided to stage a sit-in then and there. Early this morning police moved in and forcibly removed hundreds of demonstrators with the aid of water cannons.
The nine, wearing Guy Fawkes masks and holding images of Harutyunyan, were taken into custody without any explanation by the police.
Plastered by a street art group calling itself Hakaharvatz (Counter Strike), the image of the kissing couple has yet to be torn down, as is the case with other Counter Strike installations.
A statement issued by the Pre-Parliament issued the same day says that Yenikomshian told the police, allegedly from the Criminal Investigation Division, that he was sightless.
A concert took place last night in Yerevan’s Republic Square to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of Armenia’s independence.
After the street art group Counter Strike hung a banner reading “Hello Rob” (referring to former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan) on the National Assembly’s main gate, an irate individual came out and tore down the banner.
People from far and wide yesterday travelled to the village of Shnogh, in Armenia’s northern Lori Province, to take part in the “Hank or Gyank?” (Mines or Life?) honey and jam market.
Employees of the financially strapped Nairit rubber plant have once again taken to the streets of Yerevan to demand a year’s worth of unpaid wages owed them.
The illustration, depicting an armed partisan, has adorned the wall since early this morning.
From August 28 to 31, the One Caucasus festival took place in the Tseravki District of Georgia bordering both Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The marchers stopped in front of the embassies of the United States and France before gathering at the Armenian Government building on Republic Square.
Marchers demanded that Armenian President Sargsyan petition Russian authorities to free him from detention while awaiting trial.
Police forcibly removed demonstrators who had sat down in the middle of Saryan Street in Yerevan today to protest a rise in electricity rates.
The “SOS Afrikyan Club Building” civic initiative continues to organize marches through the streets of downtown Yerevan to protest the dismantling of the historic Afrikyan building.
A march is also planned for 7:30 pm today along the following route: Afrikyan building (11 Teryan St.) – Mashtots Ave. – Liberty Square – Sayat-Nova Ave. – Abovyan St. – Republic Square – Amiryan St. – Mashtots Ave. – Pushkin St. – Afrikyan building.
The activists urged local residents and others to join them at daily protest gatherings taking place at 6p.m. in the courtyard of the structure
Activists began to tear down the metal partitions erected around the Afrikyan house and erase the numbers on the stones. When they had almost completely torn down the sheets, police officers appeared on the scene, demanding an explanation. The activists said they are trying to save historical and culture values that are being destroyed.
CornPop Cinema, billed as the first open air venue for film lovers in Armenia, has opened on a hill overlooking the Karen Demirjian Sports Concert Complex in Yerevan.
Long jumper Satenik Hovhannisyan, discus thrower Suren Khachatryan, and triple jumper Levon Aghasyan not only became champions in their sporting category, but also achieved the necessary results to secure the right to participate in the world youth championships.
With a 4–0 victory over its rival, Yerevan–L.H. became the champion.
Youth discussions, visits to museums, installations, a walk through the city's old and new districts, film screenings, and that which was most anticipated for many — a concert by Armenian rock band Bambir in Gyumri's Theater Square: these were the events held in Armenia's second-largest city, Gyumri, to mark Europe Day this past weekend.
An anti-Putinism rally was held in Yerevan's Liberty Square on Saturday, after which demonstrators marched to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Armenia.
The red shirts of Yerevan’s G.M. team dealt a crushing 10-1 defeat to the AFD side from Artik in the latest match of Armenia’s women’s football spring championship.
Prior to French President François Hollande's arrival to Mashtots Park, Armenian police forcefully removed peaceful activists who had gathered at the park to protest a ceremony to rename the park after French national hero, French-Armenian poet Missak Manouchian.
Ashotyan refused, suggesting that the teachers come upstairs to him. Neither side budged and the meeting never took place.
It's springtime in the villages of Artsakh
On the eve of the 99th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, throngs of people carrying lit torches made their way on foot from the center of Yerevan to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex on a hill overlooking the Armenian capital to honor the 1.5 million innocent victims of the Medz Yegheren.
Hundreds assembled outside the Ministry of Finance in Yerevan today to voice their opposition to the much maligned mandatory pension system, several clauses of which have been declared unconstitutional by Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
Narek is a rural community in Armenia’s Ararat Province, about an hour’s drive from Yerevan.
A handful of demonstrators gathered outside the United States Embassy in Yerevan to raise public awareness regarding recent events in the Armenian populated community of Kesab, Syria.
Opponents of the mandatory pension system in Armenia staged a ‘silent’ protest
Photo Story: On the Artsakh Frontline
Opponents to unbridled and unsupervised mining in Armenia today staged an “Irresponsible Mining in Armenia Alter-Conference” outside Yerevan’s Marriott Hotel while a government backed conference on mining was taking place inside.
This feat breaks the old record of 56 steps held by Peter Rosedale of Sweden.
Those opposed to the mandatory pension system recently introduced in Armenia organized a car convoy through the streets of Yerevan, using bullhorns to tell passersby about the mass rally/march set for Saturday at Liberty Square.
Yerevan’s State Pantomime Theater launched its new season with a performance of Flowers’ Manuscript.
Those protesting Armenia’s newly introduced mandatory pension system have now gathered outside Yerevan’s Kentron (Central) Police Station.
The other day a group of us photographers visited Araxavan, a village of some 800 souls in Ararat Province a mere 17 kilometers south of Yerevan.
Hundreds of citizens are marching on the Presidential Palace in Yerevan demanding that the government finally expose and prosecute those responsible for the death of ten and wounding of scores of peaceful protesters on March 1, 2008.
While the Armenian parliament was debating a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to review the problems plaguing the Nairit Rubber Plant, outside the gates, angry factory workers were demanding they be paid several months worth of back wages.
“Elsewhere, it’s the driver of the deputy of the deputy that comes out to meet with citizens,” joked one protester.
Scores of Yerevan subway workers have complained to management about the new pension system in Armenia, arguing that participation should be voluntary, not mandatory.
Scores have assembled outside the Ukraine Embassy in Yerevan to pay respects to Sergey (Samvel) Migoyan and the other peaceful protesters killed in Kiev.
Cars and taxis circled Yerevan’s Republic Square this morning to protest the mandatory individual pension system that took effect on January 1, 2014.
Several hundred people marched through the streets in Yerevan today in defense of Shant Haroutyunyan, the political activist who attempted to stage a "revolution" with several followers in November 2013.
Several hundred people assembled outside the gates of Armenia’s National Assembly today in opposition to a natural gas treaty with Russia that was up for ratification by MPs inside.