Still from: 'Numerous cases of illegal adoption of children by foreigners have been revealed’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSis2G9F4SQ
On November 14, the National Security Service of Armenia (NSS) announced that it had uncovered an organised crime ring involved in facilitating the illegal adoption of over 30 Armenian children by foreigners. [Read more…]
Arsen Babayan. Image via Facebook.
On 12 November, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia announced that Arsen Babayan, former Deputy Chief of Staff of Armenia’s National Assembly who had been under arrest since 21 October for fraud and ‘colluding to usurp power’ has been released. [Read more…]
A protest organised by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s youth wing on 7 November outside the government building. Photo: Dvin Titizian/OC Media.
A student strike has been sparked by proposed reforms which would make Armenian Language, Armenian Literature, and Armenian History no longer mandatory for University students. [Read more…]
Far-right protestors disrupted a modernist dance performance in Yerevan over the weekend, claiming the performance was ‘profane’ and ‘satanic’. One man was arrested for throwing green dye at performers. [Read more…]
The River Voghji. Photo: Azatutyun.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Syunik, in Armenia’s southern Syunik Province, have launched a criminal investigation into the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine for contaminating the River Voghji. [Read more…]
A US congressional delegation visiting the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide memorial in Yerevan on 17 April 2019. Photo: the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution recognising the mass killings of over 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman authorities from 1915– 1923 as genocide. [Read more…]
A meeting of the Public Services Regulatory Commission. Official picture.
Armenia’s communications and utilities regulator, the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC), is developing a bill to force internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and store user data that could be accessed by law enforcement agencies. [Read more…]
(Photo: Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ordered a doubling of ministers’ and other high-ranking officials salaries without making the raises public, Armenian investigative outlet Hetq has reported. [Read more…]
Hrayr Tovmasyan. Official picture.
The father and two daughters of embattled constitutional court chair Hrayr Tovmasyan, who was recently accused of ‘seizing state power’, have been questioned by Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS). [Read more…]
Photo: Hayeli
The entrance to Armenian media outlet the Hayeli Press Club was defaced by a group of young men on 5 October for being ‘anti-Armenian’. The incident has been widely condemned and an investigation opened for disrupting a journalists’ work. [Read more…]
