While the Yerevan Municipality boasts about planting trees and flowers along the capital’s streets and squares, the condition of public toilets remains a sore spot and outright embarrassment.
The High Court in Serbia approved the seizure of a Belgrade property belonging to alleged drug trafficker Rodoljub Radulović, according to documents obtained by OCCRP reporters in Serbia. The court seized Radulović’s 45 percent ownership share of the property – a $1.2 million industrial building in Pančevo, after Organized Crime Prosecutors in Serbia filed a request to that effect on September 20, 2012.
ArmTech Congress 2012, conceived under the theme of ‘learning from the past and inventing the future’, launched today in Silicon Valley in California, USA. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University hosted the conference.
As part of the U.S. Embassy's recognition of International Human Rights Day, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia will discuss human rights issues and democratization in Armenia with senior officials of the Armenian Government, political leaders, and civil society representatives during a visit to Armenia on December 13-15.
We have been organizing the Rights march on the international day of the protection of human rights every year since 10 December, 2008. These marches have become an opportunity to take stock of what the Popular Movement has accomplished in its struggle for freedom and the restoration of constitutional rights, as well as an expression of our determination to continue the fight.
Rafik Atayan, the embattled mayor of the village of Kajaran on Armenia’s southern border with Nakhijevan, claims that the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) has effectively blockaded his village and is employing scare tactics to push through an “eminent domain” land grab.
The group says that despite the fact that several local residents were detained for questioning after the environmental activists circulated a video showing them hauling off the basalt stones, the problem is an ongoing one.
This is a response to the recent “Call for Urgent Measures for Ensuring the Legitimacy of Electoral Processes in Armenia” put out by a group of NGOs including the Transparency International Anti-corruption Center and the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office. While I agree that their suggested electoral reforms are good, almost none of the suggestions will ensure public trust and a sense of legitimacy in the government.
Taking a look at his 2011 financial disclosure, it appears that Judge Grigoryan also made 300,000 AMD from honey making, 4.5 million from meat production and 2 million from dairy production.
Everyone has the right to be heard and to shape the decisions that affect their community. This right is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and fully integrated in international law, especially in article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
A U.S. District Court judge ruled this week that an accounting firm can halt what so far have been unsuccessful efforts to contact 16 descendants of Armenian Genocide victims who are due payouts from an insurance fund.
I met up with Monte’s brother Markar in the afternoon. We drove to Fresno in Markar’s beat-up jeep. The plan was to have lunch at one of the local Armenian restaurants. They were all closed or had gone out of business. Fresno was a sad little town. Even the Armenian church was closed.
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