Bulgaria’s Sofia Echo reports that Armenian businessmen Gagik and Djavair Tsarukyan have purchased the Bulgarian water bottling company "Gorna Banya" for almost 25 million Euros. About 20 million euro of the amount will be channeled to debt payments, ...
Today, activists with the "Teghut Defense Group", headed by Heritage Party MP Zaruhie Postanjyan, staged a demonstration outside the Armenian Government Building in Yerevan protesting the recently signed Armenia-Turkey protocols. Carrying banners reading ...
Varsenik Zourabyan, a salesperson at the "Urartu" store was summoned to appear at the trial Nikol Pashinyan, in which the defendant is charged with using force against a police officer on October 23, 2007. Ms. Zourabyan, however, was neither able to point ...
Yesterday, a group of "Hetq" reporters went to the village of Ohanavan to speak with the local mayor. It seems that residents have been complaining about the potable water situation in the village as well as the problems they face in selling their apple crop. When ...
Ara Papyan, Armenia’s Ambassador to Canada from 2002-2006 and the Director of the “Modus Vivendi Center” replies to questions of “Hetq”. If the parliaments of both Turkey and Armenia ratify the protocols, in your opinion, what impact and consequences ...
During today’s trial of Nikol Pashinyan on charges that he struck a police officer during an opposition march on October 23, 2007, a witness for the prosecution could neither point out the defendant in court or Vazgen Serobyan, the police officer said to ...
An umbrella organization of 79 NGO’s, calling itself the "Initiating Group for Civic Societal Structures" has issued a statement critical of the Armenian government’s attempt, through modifications and additions to the "Law on NGO’s", to introduce restrictions ...
Yesterday two policemen charged with using excessive force during attempts to control crowds on March 1 and 2, 2008, pleaded innocent to the charges and stated that they acted within accepted police norms. Gegham Grigoryan and Andranik Manoukyan, the two ...