Ararat Mirzoyan is a PhD. Candidate in History who seemingly has run afoul of the administration at Yerevan State University for his outspoken views.
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned on Wednesday amid questions regarding her connection to a military veterans’ charity at the center of a $300 million money laundering and racketeering scam, the office Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Wednesday.
As expected, the RA Constitutional Court rejected the petitions of two former presidential candidates seeking to annul the February 18 presidential election.
At the start of his interview, just minutes ago, Raffi Hovannisian urged his supporters to cease any attempt to pitch a tent in Freedom Square. Earlier, there was a heated confrontation between police and citizens when the former tried to erect a tent for Hovannisian.
Turkish journalist Temel Demirer first fell afoul of the law when he stated, a day after Hrant Dink had been murdered, that : : “Hrant Dink was not killed because he was Armenian but because he said that there had been an Armenian genocide.”
A news organization in Mexico will stop reporting on organized crime, due to the lack of “guarantees or security for the full exercise of journalism” in their country, according to a press release Monday.
Around a quarter of Africa’s GDP -- $148 billion -- is lost to corruption annually, according to the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Ghana, Patricia Alsup, as quoted on the Ghanaian government website. Bribery of corrupt officials costs the continent between $20 and $40 billion, Alsup added.
246 of the 265 workers at the Alaverdi Copper Smelter taking part in an October 2012 medical study were diagnosed as having an elevated range of cardio-vascular and respiratory illnesses.
The latest development in Freedom Square revolves around the pitching of a tent for hunger striker Raffi Hovannisian.
As you know, on February 18 a presidential election took place in Armenia. It was contested primarily by the leaders of two parties—the ruling Republican Party and the opposition Heritage Party—both observer members of the EPP.