“Have we developed so much that we organize such parades?” singer and composer Ruben Hakhverdyan said about yesterday’s pluralism parade during a conversation with www.aravot.am. Hakhverdyan expressed a wish, “I would like our politicians to organize such a parade in Northern Avenue, since they are more disgraceful than homosexuals.” [...]
Today Marine Petrosyan, a writer and a publicist, blamed Tigran Kocharyan, an expert in information security, for organizing a march against the pluralism parade organized yesterday in regard to the World Day for Cultural Diversity declared by the UN. Petrosyan noted that she didn’t know for sure who the organizer [...]
Artyusha Shahbazyan, the secretary of the ARF parliamentary group, was personally watching the Pluralism Parade at some point yesterday. www.aravot.am inquired from Mr. Shahbazyan whether the young people opposing the parade and singing ARF songs, an activist wearing a shirt with the ARF symbol and Mr. Shahbazyan confirmed the fact [...]
As we have informed, Hamlet Petrosyan, the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) headman of the village of Basen, the region of Shirak, has gotten himself into trouble concerning the restoration of the church built in 1906. He went to the Russian Federation, collected money from the fellow villagers, guest workers, [...]
Yerevan–United States Ambassador John Heffern called on Raffi K. Hovannisian today. They exchanged views on post-election Armenia, American-Armenian relations, and regional developments. The interlocutors underscored the essential importance of free and fair elections as well as the future participation of the youth and all of civil society in securing that [...]
After the DIY club was burned, there has been a broad public discussion through press and television recently – by the way, representatives of different political forces have also made their assessments. How will you assess that arson and the fact that afterwards a set of members of the opposition [...]
According to Larisa Alaverdyan, the Heritage Party parliamentary group secretary and the first Human Rights Defender of Armenia, they create a counterbalance to the gay parade in Azerbaijan by the explosion of the DIY Club in Yerevan a few weeks ago, “All this is done to show that there is [...]
“Today, people around the world celebrate the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia. On behalf of the European Union, I am proud to join this celebration. Around the world, people experience discrimination and violence, and even die, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Consensual same sex relations are [...]
Harutyun Mesropyan, an expert in government, explains the attacks on the DIY club in recent days by the internal political situation. “Why was the issue of sexual minorities stirred up two days after the election and a week after the victory in Mashtots Park?” the expert in government raised these [...]
On May16, inaccordance with the agreement with the authorities of theNagorno-KarabakhRepublic, the OSCE Mission held scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces’ contact-line near thevillageofKuropatkino, Martouni region. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring group comprised Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE [...]
As we have already informed, yesterday, between 6 and 6:30 p.m., a group of young men attacked the DIY club located in Parpetsi St., Yerevan, again. They burned the posters “No to fascism” and “Your explosives will not frighten me,” which were pasted by the management of the club. Armine [...]
Davit Hakobyan, the director of the Yerkir Media TV Company assessed DIY club owner Arpine Oganezova’s accusations against the TV company as nonsense and said, “We can even sue them for spreading a negative image of our TV company. What do we have to do with that? I don’t know, [...]
No bathroom has worked in the secondary school of Ayrum for 7-8 years. The reasons for that are – they stopped providing permanent supplies of drinking water to the town of Ayrum and its school, the oldpipes of the bathroom have worn away and have become useless. 350 students of [...]
Yerevan Press Club agrees with today’s decision of the National Commission on TV and Radio (NCTR) that Kentron TV channel was engaged in anti-propaganda on May 6. “In this case, it was an obvious violation, it is hard to argue with the NCTR, because in case of any broadcasting, whether [...]
Petros Ghazaryan, the author of Urvagits (outline) TV show, doesn’t want to politicize today’s decision of the National Commission on TV and Radio (NCTR) to impose one-million-AMD fine on Kentron TV Company. “We claim that we were not engaged in propaganda or anti-propaganda, there was live broadcasting, during which one [...]
“Dismantle the exploiting system,” “The way out of the stalemate is alternative elections,” “Filter the government” – these are the main demands of Artavazd Vardanyan who went on a hunger strike in front of the Central Election Commission (CEC) building on May 3. A. Vardanyan was also a member of [...]
20 years have passed since Shushi was freed. www.aravot.am inquired from military expert Artsrun Hovhannisyan whose victory the freeing of Shushi had really been. Our interlocutor responded, “The Shushi victory was crucial for us, it has played a big role in building our state. As Bako Sahakyan said during the [...]
Yerevan, 8 May, 2012 From now on Orange Every Month and Let’s Talk services subscribers (save the subscribers of Simple tariff plan) can get not only on-net and off-net minutes and SMS bundles with their bonus points, but also Internet bundles. With 200 bonus points they can get 25MB Internet [...]
Yerevan, May 7, 2012 Today the name of the lucky customer who has received the 50,000th international call in the period of April 30 to May 6 was known. The lucky customer is Nver Mantashyan from Dilijan who received call from his sister living in Russia. He will [...]
In response to a question what the difference between this parliamentary election and the previous one had been and how active people had been on the internet, Tigran Kocharyan, an information security specialist, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am, “This parliamentary election differed from the previous one by the fact [...]
