From now until May 1, 2010, family members from Armenia, Artsakh and Javakhk whose relatives were killed during the Artsakh War can apply for free medical treatment at the Yerevan Medical Center in Yerevan. During a conversation with Hetq, Mr. Taron Tonoyan, ...
Speaking at a press conference today regarding the on again, off again, Turkish-Armenian normalization process, Heritage Party MP Stepan Safaryan offered three possible future scenarios. MP Safaryan said the first scenario would be the collapse of the ratification ...
Vazgen Manukyan, President of Armenia’s Public Council has called upon head of the RoA President’s Control Services Hovhannes Hovsepyan, to review the case of Paruyr Gulgoulyan, who through a series of misfortunes was deprived of his family, house and ...
Anna Pambukhchyan and her sons have been nervously awaiting the day when court bailiffs would show up to evict them from the house they have been residing in at 37 Nor Aresh Street. They had received the paperwork for the eviction. The eviction order had ...
Suren Surenyants, a member of the Republic Party’s political council, expressed the view that a certain portion of the liberated territories of Karabakh must be returned in order to avert the resumption of hostilities with Azerbaijan. He made the comment ...
Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) MP Naira Zohrabyan told Hetq today that the party was fully behind President Serzh Sargsyan’s recent statement in Syria that Armenia would be willing to make territorial concessions in Karabakh if the people of the NKR were ...
At today’s hearing pitting opponents of mining operations at Teghut with the government, Administrative Court Judge Artzrun Mirzoyan, stated that he had reached a decision that would be issued tomorrow. Neither side in the case was permitted to make any ...
A resident of 38 Isahakyan Street called the Hetq office the other day complaining that the playground behind their house was being used as a parking lot. The person informed us that the playground had been renovated last month by the Yerevan Municipality. ...
"New Times" political party leader Aram Karapetyan says he has no desire to comment on the recent change of "Orinats" (Rule of Law) party ministers in the government. The Ministers of Emergency Situations and Transport/Communications were called to stop down ...
"New Times" political party leader Aram Karapetyan today lambasted the Armenian government’s attempt to normalize relations with Turkey, labelling the process as causing more harm than good. "Armenia has not benefitted at all. The border remains closed ...
At this moment there are scores of protestors outside the RoA Government Building in downtown Yerevan making a variety of demands. They include family members of an Armenian Airways plane that crashed in northern Iran in 2001 who are demanding that compensation ...
A roundtable discussion took place today in Yerevan regarding the launch of a 1 million Euro grant project designed to reduce violence against children in Armenia. The three-year project is fully funded through European Commission and will be implemented ...
29 year-old Mariam Harutyunyan, who sells women’s jeans and clothing accessories in s store called “Fashion Time” was charged with credit card fraud back in February 2009 after an investigation by the RoA National Security Service. She was indicted with ...
Tomorrow, bailiffs from the Compulsory Enforcement Service are scheduled to evict the family of Anna Pamboukhchyan form their house on Nor Aresh Street. What happened is that Sonia Tovmasyan, who resides in the U.S., filed a court suit claiming that her ...
Attorney Hayk Alumyan has told Hetq that on March 23, the RoA Administrative Court will review the suit drafted by a group of environmental organizations seeking to halt mining in the Teghut forest. The court had refused to hear the suit, arguing the plaintiffs ...
The appeal hearing brought by Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan, seeking to overturn a district investigator’s decision to drop slander charges against the newspaper "Azatamtutyun", wrapped up today at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court. MP ...
Minutes ago, the Court of Appeals handed down its verdict upholding the 7 years sentence passed by a lower court against "Haykakan Zhamanak" editor and political opposition activist Nikol Pashinyan. In accordance with the general amnesty provisions adopted ...
Commenting on yesterday’s passage of a Genocide resolution by the U.S. House Committee, Levon Zurabyan, a spokesman from the opposition HAK, today said that he was certain that the non-binding bill would never be adopted by the U.S. Congress. Mr. Zurabyan ...
Mother of slain Karabakh freedom-fighter rips up photo of President Sargsyan in court At today’s appeals proceeding to review the case of jailed Haykakan Zhamanak editor Nikol Pashinyan, defense lawyer Lusineh Sahakyan introduced a motion calling for ...
Mariam Sukhudyan and Friends Stumble on Some Disturbing Evidence in Forest On February 20, a group of young people travelled to Dilijan for a hike in the woods. Upon entering the forest they heard a familiar but unwelcome sound. “We had just started ...
RoA Human Rights Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan today sounded a warning about the level of human rights in Armenia and predicted that if measures followed by the Armenian judicial system continue on the present course, in twenty years we’ll be talking about ...
Levon Zurabyan, a representative of the opposition HAK political alliance, presented a broad outline of the organization’s economic platform entitled "100 Steps" and said that the full program will soon be unveiled to the public. Mr. Zurabyan said the ...
Vardanyan Family in Lori Cries Foul; Seek Redress in European Court Vardan Vardanyan, a resident of the village of Shnogh, Lori Marz, has applied to the European Court of Human Rights. He is seeking financial and moral compensation for loses he claims ...
The Avan and Nor-Nork District Court yesterday rejected the suit filed by Radio Hye demanding that MP Stepan Safaryan issue a public retraction of his assertion that the station broadcast a program at the behest of President Sargsyan or his staff. The ...
Republican Party Spokesperson Edward Sharmazanov, commenting on President Serzh Sargsyan’s speech in London and his message to Turkish President Gul, said that Armenia continues to maintain the initiative in the on again off again process of normalizing ...
Armen Harutyunyan, the RoA Human Rights Ombudsman, lambasted Grigor Amalyan, President of the National Commission of Radio and TV, for his recent quip that the report of the Ombudsman regarding the events of March 1, 2008, wasn’t "serious". "I would only ...
Members of the RoA Human Rights Office split down the line after they reviewed the issue of whether Nikol Pashinyan, recently sentenced to seven years imprisonment, should have been granted an official pardon. Two of the four member review panel say he ...
Vazgen Safaryan, chairman of the Union of Domestic Manufacturers of Armenia, today said that for the past twenty year, the Armenians government hasn’t directed enough attention to the manufacturing sector. Mr. Safaryan, at a press conference, argued for ...
An outspoken political analyst, Ruben Hakobyan, said today that the Armenian government was able to use the Armenia-Turkish Protocols to redirect public attention from pressing domestic problems. "We must pay more attention to our lives within the country, ...
Political analyst Ruben Hakobyan described both sides in the process to normalize Armenian-Turkish relations as lacking "sincerity" at a press conference today. He said that it wasn’t coincidental that the process had been nicknamed "football diplomacy" ...
Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan said today that her presence at PACE wasn’t desirable by John Prescott and Georges Colombier, the PACE rapporteurs on Armenia. She was referring to the absence of the two co-rapporteurs at the December 17 PACE session ...
HAK representative Levon Zurabyan answered reporters’ questions at a press conference held today. Here’s a sampling of what he said. If war breaks out, will you call on the people to participate or will you continue to make demands of the government? We ...
At a press conference held today, Anahit Sargsyan, head of the Armenian parliamentary monitoring mission, lambasted Armenian TV stations for not covering the parliamentary elections recently held in District 10. "TV stations hade essentially boycotted the ...
Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan today stated that Turkey was using the Armenian-Turkish Protocols to resolve a number of historical problems, namely, those dealing with the "Armenian Question"; i.e. the borders and the 1915 Genocide. "This is the minimum ...
During a press interview today, Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan retorted, "And have you forgotten about the Armenians living in Turkey", this, in response to a statement by Republican Party MP Hovhannes Sahakyan, that if the Protocols aren’t ratified ...
Regarding the January 25 meeting of the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia in Sochi, Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan commented, "That process in which NKR doesn’t participate cannot be considered to be one of negotiations. This recent meeting ...
Vahagn Gevorgyan, an 18 year-old activist with the group "Hima", has petitioned the Armenian Court of Cassation to rescind the verdicts of the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court and the Court of Appeals, which found him guilty of "verbally insulting and ...
Residents nearby the Arzni health resorts have telephoned "Hetq" saying that scores of dead fish have been spotted washed-up along the banks of the Hrazdan River. Residents say that gulls and other birds are having a field day gorging on the easy prey."Hetq" ...
Mesrop Harutyunyan, while speaking about pending legislative reforms regarding news outlets in Armenia, sarcastically stated that the upcoming elections in 2012 would take place ‘quite normally’ since there won’t be any media left to monitor the voting. "If ...
This Sunday, a bunch of young cyclists will set off for the white and fluffy stuff in Tzaghkadzor since Yerevan hasn’t seen any snow so far this winter. Those wanting to make the wintry trek should gather at the Kanaker railway station where bikes and ...
Constitutional law expert Vardan Poghosyan stated today that it was not acceptable practice for a nation to declare "provisios" when it came to a bilateral treaty. "There is such a practice regarding multi-national treaties but not in bilateral agreements," ...
Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan has told "Hetq" that she is preparing materials to present at the next session of PACE, scheduled for January 25-30, regarding the state of democracy in Armenia. MP Postanjyan says she will present the dossier to the PACE ...
At this moment voting has stopped at the 10/9 polling precinct. An argument and a scuffle has broken out and this has prompted election officials to close the doors to the all new voters. A short while ago, election monitors at the station noticed that ...
"Hetq" reporters in the field are reporting a strange occurrence. It seems that at almost all polling stations, reporters have noticed members of the local elections committee, especially the presidents, on their cell phones, to persons unknown, reporting ...
At around 3 pm today, HAK’s press spokesperson Arman Musinyan, told "Hetq" that a group of unknown males attacked Petros Makeyan, a proxy for Nikol Pashinyan, and two others, at the 10/9 polling precinct located in the Derzhinsky School. Mr. Musinyan ...
Zoya Tadevosyan, who serves on the Central Election Commission and is a member of the opposition Heritage Party, has told "Hetq" that as of 2:30 pm elections are proceeding normally except for polling stations 10/18 and 10/19. She claims that appears people ...
A group of young environmental activists will usher in the New Year with a bike ride on the eve of December 31 through downtown Yerevan. Mariam Sukhudyan, one of the activists and a vegetarian to boot, says that she wants to welcome 2010 on “two wheels” ...
Next year the Prosperous Armenia Party faction in the Yerevan City Council will propose that all children attending public schools be required to wear school uniforms. “Kids should be focused on learning and not be worried about whether others are better ...
Control Chamber’s Hayk Beglaryan Involved in Real Estate Deal: Are Laws Being Violated? The same destiny that befell countless residents of downtown Yerevan now threatens to destroy the lives of a family living at Buzand Street #83. According to Decision ...