Abovyan Prison
Many have said while speaking of the upcoming presidential elections that there is the need for a new person, that everyone - both the authorities and the opposition, both the old and the new - has outlived their time. This could be true, if it weren’t so obviously false. It is false because there is no need for a new person and there could not be one because of a number of reasons.
On September 26 at 4:10 a.m. Tigran Arzakantsyan, member of the Armenian Parliament, member of the Republican Party of Armenia, and owner of Great Valley, was attacked in the casino of Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. This is the second such incident involving Arzakantsyan in a Moscow casino, and it’s possible that the two incidents are related.
Javakhk is in a blind alley on the information highway. Information enters and leaves this region with great difficulty. The Armenians of the region have no information about what is going on inside the country, in their region, or what is being said about them abroad. The average resident of Javakhk does not know the decisions about them that are being taken by the government, the rights and duties that they have, the privileges that they...
On September 30, the council of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia heard a report by Misha Piliposyan, the office manager of the Public Defender's (PD) office on the work done over the past six months and declared it dissatisfactory. Before hearing the report, the member of the council studied the proceedings of selected public defenders and came to the conclusion that there were, in essence, no proceedings worth noting.
“Are there any areas with landmines”, is sort of a rhetorical question when it comes to the border villages in the Tavush marz. The answer is always the same; it’s just the amount of mined lands that differs according to the land’s overall surface features. The village of Sevkar (Blackstone), that lies exactly five kilometers from the border on a straight line, is no exception.