The Court has ordered the Investigative Journalists NGO to publicly retract statements found “to defame the reputation of the Ijevan Municipality and to slander the good name of the Ijevan Mayor.” The NGO must also pay plantiffs 450,000 AMD for legal fees.
The Coordinating Committee for the Defense of Javakhk-Armenian Rights has circulated a statement strongly condemning the 2010 Human Rights Report published by the U.S. State Department on April 8.
Two new bells now grace the Armenian Church of Odzoun near the northern town of Alaverdi. They were installed in a Palm Sunday service and blessed by Bishop Sepuh Chuljian, Primate of the Gougark Diocese.
As such, breaches can be more or less serious. But because they relate to a whole people, some of them border on betrayal to ethics and to moral code.
Hetq also reported about a number of abuses involved in the Global Fund operations here in Armenia, in particular, the fact that Armen Karapetyan, who heads the Financial Department over at the RA Ministry of Health had been receiving a salary from the program for one and a half years.
Aramayis Badalyan is a 76 year-old resident of Maghavouz village, located near the northern Artsakh regional center of Martakert. The old man can hardly see nowadays but still remains active.
On April 16, acclaimed actor Karen Janibekyan and his wife made the trip to a field outside the northern Armenian town of Teghout to plant trees along with 140 college students.
Torch bearers will march to local Genocide memorial on April 23, in one of two events planned.
We read with disappointment that the Kyiv Post has fired its editor Brian Bonner for refusing to kill a story about a prominent minister in Ukraine. We have been a partner with the Kyiv Post on the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting project, a regional consortium of investigative centers, news media and journalists. We are also working journalists in SE Europe, the Caucasus and surrounding areas.
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