A group of students, clergy and assorted activists are now gathering outside the Georgian embassy in Yerevan to protest what they claim is a "white genocide" taking place against Armenian culture and specifically Armenian churches in Georgia. Shouting ...
Today, at approximately 4 am, the cupola of the 14th century Saint Gevork Armenian Church in Tbilisi came crashing down. Saint Gevork was a working church up till the 1930’s and was used as a supply depot for the Georgian National Museum till the early ...
At today’s trial session of Nikol Pashinyan, Prosecutor Harutyun Harutyunyan stated that he would forego calling other witnesses to testify in the criminal proceedings against the editor of "Haykakan Zhamanak" since, as Mr. Harutyunyan put it, "The testimony ...
Today, at the continuing trial of “Haykakan Zhamanak” editor Nikol Pashinyan, officers of the Armavir Police Department were questioned as witnesses to the scene that unfolded on March 1, 2008. One of the witnesses, Tornik Poghosyan, said the officers ...
Three more individuals testified today in the on-going criminal trial of "Haykakan Zhamanak" newspaper editor Nikol Pashinyan who faces charges of fomenting public disorder on March 1, 2008, following the presidential elections the previous month. The first ...
(The following is part of a telephone conversation between DA, a graduate of the Nubarashen Special School, and Arman Gharibyan, one of the volunteers who worked there.) - But when they call me to testify, I’ll lie. - Why DA? Why will you lie? - Don’t ...
Today, three witnesses to called to the witness stand in the ongoing trial of jailed "Haykakan Zhamank" editor Nikol Pashinyan. Today’s court proceedings dealt with "public disturbance" charges related to the events of March 1, 2008. The first witness, ...
Georgian and Armenian cartographers will meet in Yerevan on November 18-19 to try and agree on a joint delineation of the common border between the two nations. The Georgian delegation will bring their version of the border to the table for inspection. "Once ...
At today’s trial session of Nikol Pashinyan on charges that the jailed editor of "Haykakan Zhamanak" struck a law enforcement office during a opposition march on October 23, 2007, a polic witness testified that he saw an irate Mr. Pashinyan strike police ...
In a shocking claim made today, Nona Galstyan attorney for environmental activist Mariam Sukhudyan, charged with slander in a case involving allegations of sexual abuse of pupils at Nubarashen Boarding School 11, said that transcripts of a laser disc recording ...
During today’s trial of jailed "Haykakan Zhamanak" editor Nikol Pashinyan, National Security Service (NSS) Company Commander Andranik Arakelyan testified that he saw the accused with a megaphone in hand shouting out "No to Serzh, No to Robert". However, ...
The trial of jailed "Haykakan Zhamank" editor Nikol Pashinyan continued today at the Shengavit District Court. Major Khachatur Hovakimyan, a company commander with the National Security Service took the witness stand.The witness stated that on October 23, ...
At his trial session today, "Haykakan Zhamanak" editor Nikol Pashinyan, facing charges related to the mass public demonstrations after the 2008 presidential elections declared that he wanted his day in court; otherwise he wouldn’t have voluntarily come out ...
At a press conference held earlier today, Haykazoun Alvrtsyan, Director of the "Western Armenians’ Research Center" Foundation, stated that the Armenia-Turkey protocols would have negative consequences for Javakhk given that it is the "hottest" pre-conflict ...
Varsenik Zourabyan, a salesperson at the "Urartu" store was summoned to appear at the trial Nikol Pashinyan, in which the defendant is charged with using force against a police officer on October 23, 2007. Ms. Zourabyan, however, was neither able to point ...
During today’s trial of Nikol Pashinyan on charges that he struck a police officer during an opposition march on October 23, 2007, a witness for the prosecution could neither point out the defendant in court or Vazgen Serobyan, the police officer said to ...
The trial of Armenian opposition activist and editor of the "Haykakan Zhamank" newspaper, Nikol Pashinyan, continues today at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court. During the last court session, Prosecutor Koryun Piloyan summed up the charges against ...
ARF Political Affairs Bureau Chief Giro Manoyan stated today that he didn’t believe the Turkish parliament would not ratify the Armenian-Turkish protocols before April 24, 2010, if there was no agreed to settlement regarding principles in the Karabakh conflict. “This ...
The German company “Ostinvestor” purchased 1,520 shares of the “Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine- Vodka Factory” (YABWV). This amounts to 3.2% of Ararat’s outstanding shares. In June, 2008, the German firm received a note from the principal shareholder ...
ISTANBUL - Ismet Berkan, an editor with the leftist Turkish newspaper "Radikal", stated today that he believed the presidents of Turkey and Armenia had already reached an informal resolution on the Karabakh issue. In a statement to a group of visiting ...
ANKARA - On October 21, the Armenian-Turkish protocols will be submitted to the Turkish parliament for ratification. In a few days, the Turkish foreign ministry will sign them. This was the opinion expressed by Goksel Bogyut, who heads the press division ...
(ANKARA) According to Turkish Culture and Tourism Deputy Minister Ismet Yilmaz, some 50,000 Armenians from the RoA travel to Turkey to look for work every year. He said that the ministry does not keep figures on the number of tourists entering Turkey which ...
They note, however, that the community has all been forgotten in the process.
Representatives of the Armenian blogosphere gathered today in front of the Georgian Embassy in Yerevan and offered photos of notorious People's Commissar for the Internal Affairs of the USSR, Lavrenti Beria, who like Stalin, was also born in Georgia, and balloons ...
Stepan Safaryan, who heads the Heritage Party faction in the Armenian National Assembly, stated today that the party, recently racked by internal discord, remains in place and intends to continue operating."There are six dismissed party members but we have ...
Today, the RoA Appeals Court was scheduled to hear the appeal brought by the newspaper "Haykakan Zhamank" against Levon Kocharyan, the youngest son of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan. The appeal stems from an earlier slander suit that Levon Kocharyan ...
Work on mapping the Armenian-Georgian border is coming to a close. However disputed territories still exist and it is up to the Inter-State Demarcation Commission to reach a mutually agreeable resolution.
Hamlet Hovsepyan, legal affairs advisor to the RoA Prime Minister and president of the "Liberation" veteran’s union, stated today that the recent protocols signed by Armenia and Turkey were a "step forward". We are inclined to cement friendship with our ...
Aida doesn’t want her kids to end up like her Nazik Demouryan, along with her children and young grandkids, lives in Room 208 located in a former student dormitory in Section 2 of Yerevan’s Nor-Nork district. This is the third month that they have been ...
Georgian prosecutors in the case of jailed Javakhk Armenian activist and head of the "United Javakhk Alliance" Vahagn Chakhalyan have yet to hand over the arms and ammunition allegedly taken from his house and the Javakhk Youth Sports and Cultural Center to ...
According to Haykazoun Alvrtsyan, Director of the Research Center for Western-Armenian Affairs, one can expect no serious changes in Armenian-Georgian relations due to Georgia's formal exit from the CIS. At a press conference today, Mr. Alvrtsyan stated, ...
Yesterday, Georgian authorities prevented Stepan Voskanyan, lawyer of jailed Javakhk-Armenian activist and leader of the "United Javakhk Alliance" Vahagn Chakhalyan, from seeing his client at the Rustavi #2 prison. Mr. Voskanyan was told by Georgian authorities ...
Ijevan Mayor Varuzhan Nersisyan is unhappy with a lower court’s decision that found in favor of the “Investigative Journalists NGO”, the defendant in a slander case initiated by the Ijevan Municipality. Mayor Nersisyan plans to appeal to a higher court. Why ...
Today, Mekhak Apresyan, who heads the Tourism and Regional Development Department at the Ministry of Economics, reported that 207,729 tourist visited Armenia during the first six months of 2009; a rise of only 1% over last year. He said that in 2008 there ...
Article 8 of the RoA Constitution states that the right to own private property is recognized and defended in Armenia and that the freedom of economic endeavor and free completion is guaranteed. In the pursuit of these rights enshrined in the RoA Constitution, ...
An interview with Armen Bayandouryan, a member of the Georgian Parliament and Artistic Director of the Petros Adamyan National Theater in Tbilisi Mr. Bayandouryan, what are the most pressing problems facing the Georgian-Armenian community today? There ...
In May, 2006, the German company “Ostinvestor” purchased 1,520 shares of the “Yerevan Ararat Brandy- Wine-Vodka Factory” (YABWV). This amounts to 3.2% of Ararat’s outstanding shares.
The appeal of French-Armenian attorney Patrick Arapian, seeking to overturn a decision by the Georgian Ministry of Justice that prohibited him from registering as the defense lawyer of Javakhk Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan, was denied by a Georgian court ...
The ARF called off its scheduled protest for today outside the RoA Ministry of Foreign Affairs in light of yesterday's air disaster involving Caspian Airlines flight 7908. The protest, which was to be coordinated with similar actions at Armenian embassies ...
Today, ARF Supreme Council representative Armen Roustamyan presented the statement that was supposed to have been handed over to the RoA Ministry of Foreign Affairs that calls for the resignation of Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. Mr. Roustamyan stated ...
Grigor Voskerchyan, the former mayor of Abovyan who had been detained for sixteen months, was found guilty today of "organizing mass public disturbances" and sentenced to two years imprisonment. He was immediately released under the provisions of the recently ...
At a press conference today, Artur Grigoryan, lawyer for National Assembly Deputy Khachatur Sukiasyan, who remains in hiding after the events of March 1, 2008, hinted that his client might surface even though he is convinced that he will be arrested and tried. According ...
“I’m 73 years-old, but a very active woman for my age. I went to France to work. But the family that I was supposed to work for, taking care of their grandmother, got scared and told me – if they haven’t given you residency papers to live in this town, ...
The criminal case surrounding the August 11, 2008, attack and beating of "Haykakan Zhamanak" reporter Lusineh Barseghyan has been suspended. (For more details see: Assailants Unknown: Investigation Surrounding Assault on Reporter Dropped). The case was ...
In the ongoing flap regarding Armenian teachers from Georgia not being permitted to travel to Armenia for retraining seminars, the RoA Ministry of Education and Science has sent an official dispatch to the Georgian Ministry Of Education. Most of the teachers ...
During today’s session of the RoA Control Camber, a decision was passed to forward a package of documents relating to expenditures in the village of Talvorik, Lori Marz, to the General Prosecutor's Office for possible legal action. It appears that the ...
One of the six issues taken up by the RoA Control Chamber today related to the correct utilization of government funds by the Ministry of Culture during the fiscal year 2007-2008. Control Chamber audits have registered 61.5 million drams in overall financial ...
After today's session of the RoA Control Chamber, Iskhan Zakaryan called a press conference and announced that a number of glaring violation had been uncovered dealing with the program launched in 2005 to renovate and restore 44 historical/cultural monuments ...
For quite some time the issue regarding the disparity in tuition rates charged RoA citizens and non-citizens in Armenia's various institutions of higher learning has been on the front pages. Students from the diaspora, which also includes those from Javakhk, ...
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