Today, the RA Civil Court of Appeals partially ruled in favour of the Investigative Journalists NGO when it cut the amount of compensation to be paid to the Ijevan Municipality from 930,000 to 450,000 AMD. Presiding Judge Nakhshoun Tavaratsyan ruled that ...
Armen Parsadanyan, who heads the Kapan Regional Development Foundation" has warned of a new round of public protests next year if local and national authorities do not halt uranium mining operations in the southern Armenian Syunik Marz.
We should point out that despite the decriminalization of slander and defamation, Article 344 remains in the RA Criminal Code. It deals with slander of “Judges, prosecutors, investigators, case examiners or bailiffs from the Compulsory Enforcement Service.” Given the particulars involved, one can be sentence to up to 4 years according to the Article. In effect, it remains a convenient weapon in the hands of the authorities; to be brandished...
Inflation appears to be issue #1 We asked several Armenian MP’s with an economics background to summarize the economic situation in Armenia for 2010 and to offer predictions for the coming year. Here’s what they had to say. Gagik Minasyan (Republic ...
An interview with former RA Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan How would you evaluate 2010 from an economic perspective? I can’t to any economic successes in the year overall. The same basic problems existed at the start and end of the year. The number ...
Yesterday, Armenia’s Rule of Law Party, a junior government coalition partner, recalled Gerasim Alaverdyan as RA Minister of Agriculture. Party press secretary Sousanna Abrahamyan told Hetq that Artur Baghdasaryan, Chairman of the Rule of Law Party had ...
Ararat Davtyan, a well-known name to Hetq readers, became a father yesterday with the birth of a bouncing baby girl. The Hetq team congratulates Ararat and his lovely wife Ani on this most joyous of occasions. We wish the family unbridled health and happiness ...
The preliminary investigation of the criminal case on the squandering by the head of the National Seismic Protection Service Agency of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations has been completed in the RA Special Investigation Service. The prosecutor supervising ...
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