Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns yesterday’s search by police of the headquarters of the Yerevan-based Armenian news website Yerevan.Today. It violated the confidentiality of journalists’ sources, RSF said.
In the shadow of a statue of General Andranik, and with the accompaniment of traditional Armenian song and dance, ARF candidates vying for a spot on the new Yerevan Municipal Council met with voters in the Armenian capital’s Malatia-Sebastia district.
Armenian Minister of Nature Protection Erik Grigoryan today, in Yerevan, met with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) delegation, headed by Nigel Jollands, to discuss Armenia’s participation in an EBRD project called Green Cities.
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian, running for the post of Yerevan mayor, pressed the flesh today at a campaign rally in a small Yerevan park where a statute of the famous painter Martiros Sarian stands.
Yesterday’s raid lasted for several hours, Hakobyan said, preventing website employees from working for most of the day.