June 1 marks International Children’s Day. It is also celebrated in Armenia. This year, a ten-day period from June 1-10 will be set aside for a variety of events in defense of children’s rights. Not all children will be in a festive mood. There are children ...
16 years old Vova Zaqaryan, resident of Getap village in Shirak Marz, stopped attending school two years ago. He isn’t even going to participate in the final exams for the eighth grade to get his school graduation certificate at least formally. In his conversation ...
Six cases of physical violence against reporters were registered in the May 31 Yerevan municipal elections, as well as incidents designed to prevent them from carrying out their professional duties. At 10:45 am, physical violence was employed against ...
Ashot and Armen Alikhanyans went to first grade in Teghout village, but after their parents divorced the brothers had to go to different schools in Vanadzor. Ashot is 15, Armen is 11. Their mother Manik said that Ashot displayed some symptoms of mental ...
“No, Gagik didn’t dangle me from their seventh story window to throw me down. The window was merely open and he stood me in front. I can’t say why. It was a good day. I gave him the money. Maybe he was angry or something.” This is what 13 year-old Abgar recounts. He attends the Vardashen #1 boarding school. He’s been working as a beggar in the service of 34 year-old Garik Hovhannisyan for quite some time.
With a mere 4.65% share of yesterday's election vote, the ARF failed to hit the 7% threshold for city council representation. When we tried to get ARF candidate Artzvik Minasyan to comment on yesterday's vote results he responded with "no comment". He said ...
Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the People's Party, stated to "Hetq" that the results of yesterday's municipal elections do not reflect reality. His party only received 2.14% of the vote according to official results. "I'm not talking about my party's votes. ...
On May 29, the second appeals hearing took place in the Tbilisi Civil Court to overturn the decision of the Georgian Ministry of Justice and to allow the registration of Patrick Arabyan, a member of the Paris Advocates Collective, to represent Javakhk-Armenian ...
According to preliminary results issued by the Central Electoral Committee this morning the vote in yesterday's municipal elections breaks down as follows: Republican Party of Armenia - 47.39% Prosperous Party of Armenia - 22.71% HAK (Armenian National ...