Society

A journalist of Armenian Ernest Vardanyan imprisoned in Transdniester for over a month now has made a complaint about the physical and psychological pressured addressed to him. Yesterday he made a statement, which reads, "In the name of all saints, please, save my wife and my children. They make me confess that I have spied …

Yesterday in an unprecedented public apology, the chief of Armenia’s police service Alik Sargsyan admitted misleading the nation about the recent scandalous death of a young man in police custody. Sargsyan said he was “deceived” by his subordinates into thinking that Vahan Khalafyan was not ill-treated at the police station of Charentsavan, a small town …

Yesterday it was almost officially confirmed that a resident of Charentsavan Vahan Khalafyan, 24, held in police custody on April 13, was murdered. He was murdered in the police department due to the violence applied by the police officers. The forensic survey of the dead body showed that certain violence was applied to Khalafyan. According …

The unexpected death of representatives of politics and culture does not give an opportunity to understand their lives and what they have done. It is against the rules of ethics to decide what they have done at that time and make a decision where to bury them. The feeling of guilt makes the society make …

The understanding of luxury is very different in Armenia. However, the parliament is going to adopt a “law on luxury”. This law will regulate the hobbies of rich people. The initiator of the law, MP Viktor Dallakyan says rich parties at restaurants are luxurious too and should be taxed as well.  This law will serve …

Indeed, the location (RA capital city Yerevan) of the FIDH 37th conference, the demand of the president of the organization addressed to the RA government to immediately release the political prisoners of Armenia, objective investigation of the events of March 1, 2008, re-opening of the A1+ were indeed pleasant facts. The meeting of the human …

Currently Armenia is like a hospital, where to understand the situation of patients they take the cumulative mean temperature of all patients: one is cold like ice-cream in the mortuary, others are not, but the mean temperature is 36,6. The environment of misunderstanding and mistrust between the authorities and society exists between the servants of the …

The society of Armenia has not been able to feel the impact of the gas price increase, and now the Yerevan Water company is preparing a surprise for the citizens of Yerevan and surrounding communities. The latter has applied to the committee in charge of regulating the public services with an appeal to increase the …

It means fatherland, which disappears in front of your eyes. This movie of the Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica is about his fatherland – Yugoslavia. This country turned into underground weapon factory since April 6, 1941. The Second World War drives into abyss a whole nation. None of them succeeds to come out of the underground …

“All nations have their mythologies. For example, the US creates its mythology according to the example of Ancient Rome and gets very nervous when it sees that other nations want to build their own mythologies. Small nations have only one way to work it out; they should strengthen their national mythology. And it should be …