YEREVAN—Hundreds of women marched on the General Prosecutor’s Office in downtown Yerevan on Friday to protest the release on bail of former director of the Republican Institute of Reproductive Health, Dr. Razmik Abrahamyan. Abrahamyan is […]
Just days before Christmas, a Russian court sentenced a young climate activist to six days in jail for participating in a climate change demonstration in Moscow. Supporters of the 25-year-old violinist Arshak Makichyan claim that […]
YEREVAN—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called for level heads to prevail as tensions in the region flared over the death of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in last week’s US airstrike. Broadcasting on Facebook […]
YEREVAN—The Investigative Committee of Armenia arrested three civil servants late last week in connection with the National Security Service’s (NSS) ongoing investigation into illegal international adoptions. Officials arrested Liana Karapetyan, the director of a Yerevan […]
DILIJAN—Diaspora-Armenian entrepreneurs from 20 countries converged on the Armenian mountain resort town of Dilijan this week, representing 47 tech startups at NerUzh 2.0. The program, which includes a startup bootcamp, mentorship sessions, networking events as […]
If passed, an amendment to Armenia’s current law on intelligence-gathering operations would give police the authority to wiretap telephone conversations of private citizens independently from the National Security Service (NSS). Such a legislative amendment would […]
YEREVAN—Small business owners confronting a wave of break-ins plaguing the city over the past year are demanding action from the police. Zak Valladian, a repat from Dubai, told the Armenian Weekly that his popular downtown […]
With Christmas only three weeks away, crocheted gifts from Armenia are flying off the shelves from Yerevan to Los Angeles. Two tags stick out from many of these hand-knitted gloves with Armenian carpet motifs or […]
YEREVAN—The Armenian Special Investigation Service (SIS) announced on Wednesday that it had charged former President Serge Sarkisian with embezzlement of state funds. According to the terms of the indictment, in 2013 Sarkisian used his position […]
YEREVAN—The Armenian National Police Department has unveiled several more cases of potential illegal international adoptions following the launch of a National Security Service (NSS) investigation into the matter last week. In a video posted to […]
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