Hundreds of demonstrators, protesting a recent electricity rate hike, again closed Yerevan’s Baghramyan Avenue.
Nobody knew that Nermin would go to Syria, said the mother of a young man who died fighting alongside the Islamic State (IS) in a quiet, shaky voice.
The trial of Hayk Kyureghyan, detained for over a year for discharging an air pistol in the direction of the police on July 12, 2014, ended almost as soon as it started today after his supporters raised a ruckus about not being able to attend the proceedings at Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Court.
Most of the twenty children from the Ararat village of Baghrayan who were hospitalized for severe tummy aches and dizziness after eating a batch of bad hots dogs have been released.
Aram Papoyan, head of the Physical Research Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, has won the ICO Galileo Galilei Award for 2015.
Four children from the Shirak village of Tzithankov were hospitalized with intestinal flu and another 28 were treated on an out-patient basis, according to Armenia’s Ministry of Health.
A public hearing regarding a new mine proposed by Vallex Group took place today at the Alaverdi Municipality but broke down after several heated exchanges between residents of the affected villages and company representatives.