The candle lighting rally at Harsnakar Restaurant dedicated to commemoration of doctor Vahe Avetyan’s death has just finished. At first a few hundred citizens were not allowed by the police officers to enter the premises of the restaurant, but the police officers met the demands of the people gathered to light and leave candles in …
Monthly Archives: June 2012
In the very front of Berd Town Hall, in the vicinity of 18th-century cemetery, a business has been built, which hasn’t been operated yet. The residents of Berd are annoyed with the fact that a business has been built in the park, next to the cemetery, they have boycotted it. The memorial dedicated to …
Today social anthropologist Artashes Boyajyan said during a conversation with www.aravot.am that he didn’t agree with the opinions often expressed recently that Gyumri is a criminal town. “Those crimes are committed everywhere, there are criminals everywhere, but we don’t label that settlement as a town of criminals. I don’t accept that they label our whole …
Today a meeting of those intellectuals of Gyumri, who, not tolerating the idleness of the current council of Gyumri, are going to nominate a team of candidates for the council during the upcoming local elections, took place in the Style gallery of the town. They were comprised of famous social anthropologists, economists, architects, lawyers, representatives …
Yesterday Aravot reported from village of Karaberd, region of Shirak. The name of settlement can be replaced by another one and the problems enumerated by the villagers will not change substantially as a result of that. The road leading to the village is destructed and it has not been repaired for 25 years, the cost …
The French Delegate Mentioned Azerbaijan’s “Black List” of Visitors to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
The PACE adopted a resolution today, according to which, it condemns restrictions on the freedom of movement as a punishment for political stance. Stressing the connection between the freedom of movement and the freedom of speech, the Assembly mentions that some states, members of the Council of Europe, abuse their legal right to forbid or …
We have already informed that today, at the end of its summer session, the PACE discussed the report on the progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure June 2011-May 2012. It was presented by Andres Herkel, the Estonian delegate and the Chairperson of the PACE Monitoring Committee. Although the report and the resolution draft contained many …
Today the examination of a criminal charge brought against Hrant Henrik Nersisyan, the arrested surgeon of Gyumri Chermak Hospital, started in the law court of the region of Shirak. The charge is in accordance with Article 130, Section 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia – i.e. not fulfilling the professional duty …
Oskanian’s case is talked about much these days, particularly, different political camps give different explanations to the fact. For example, some of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) representatives think that Russia’s factor is big in Oskanian’s case, in order to, so to say, revise the orientation of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP). In regard …
Joint project of free eye screenings and treatment launched by the Orange Foundation and the Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP) in Vayots Dzor region, which aimed to provide free eye screening services to the residents of the region, as well as treatment for socially vulnerable people, is coming to its end. In the frames of …
