Vallex Group ChairmanValery Mezhlumyan, in an attempt to calm passions in the village of Teghout over a recent incident in which company security guards beat several village residents, travelled to Teghout and asked for forgiveness.
Freedom House urges Armenian authorities to conduct an immediate, independent investigation into a mob attack against the offices of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (HCA), a leading human rights organization, and the failure of police forces to calm the crowd or intervene when the situation began to turn violent.
On April 23, at 12:00 the temporary exhibition titled “The Book as a Witness of the Genocide” will be opened in the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute. The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Armenian printing and the proclamation of Yerevan as 2012 World Book Capital City by UNESCO. The exhibition includes about 300 first editions on the subject of the Armenian Genocide, which are either printed...
A group called Kanachastan has organized a series of events in Armenia to coincide with Earth Day on April 22.
Mashtots Park activists in Yerevan plan to stage a mock funeral of an “oligarch” tomorrow at 2pm.
A series of events will be held in Norway this year commemorating the 97th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.