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Hrayr Ghukasyan, the lawyer representing the family of a man who died in police custody, said yesterday that the results of official forensic tests disprove police claims that he was not subjected to torture. Ghukasyan stopped short of explicitly endorsing these allegations. But he did reject the official version of the incident, citing the findings …

On Saturday, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia issued an announcement, according to which the murder case of the former Malatia-Sebastia community leader’s son, Sedrak Zatikyan, and an accidental victim, Karine Sargsyan, was revealed. According to the information of the Prosecutor’s Office, the suspect is Arsen Arushanyan, born in 1993, who had been arrested in …

A few years ago, in the Ogonyok event, actor Armen Jigarkhanyan confessed that if some day somebody threatened him with torture to give evidence or give witness about something he will definitely do so, because he’s afraid of threats and pain. During the same interview he told another story. After the performance of Oleg Yefremov, …

According to Republic of Armenia’s Ministry of Urban Construction, every year over 700,000 tons of waste are generated in the country. Every day 450-470 tons of municipal waste are transported to the Nubarashen landfill. This data was presented at a spring 2006 roundtable discussion entitled “A Rational Approach to Managing the Difficult Issue of Municipal …

Adviser to the RA Foreign Minister Vahe Aghabekyan has been appointed the new executive director of the “Hayastan” All Armenian Fund. The Board of Trustees of the fund removed Naira Melkumyan Wednesday evening from the office of executive director of the fund. Naira Melkumyan was the executive director of the “Hayastan” All Armenian Fund since …

According to the sources of “Arminfo”, the “VimpelCom” company, which owns “Armentel”, is having certain problems with registering its brand “Bee Line” in Armenia. The problem is that there is another company registered under this brand (Bee Line), which is occupied in the business of computer parts and accessories. Concerning this dispute, the head of …

– Holy Father, when the RA President makes it to the last moment of the clerical services and when he doesn’t kiss the sacred cross of the Catholicos the society seems to start to connect all the negative things in the country with the fact of Kocharyan being an atheist. Do you think the fact …

Penalties for trafficking in persons increased in Armenia, finds the U.S. State Department report on trafficking in persons. “Although Armenia increased the use of its anti-trafficking law, increased the number of convicted traffickers serving time in prison, and prosecuted its first labor trafficking case in December 2006 – marking the first time trafficking victims were …

Andranik Manukyan, RA Minister of Transport and Communications, put in a lot of effort to keep his position because he still has a lot to do in the ministry. First of all, it is still a question as to from which country the second Internet service provider “Fibernet” company (Manukyan has a share in “FiberNet”) …

Pursuant to a new government program, in the nearest future four television companies will be digitized, at the expense of the government. The other companies will have to be digitized too, but at their own expense, otherwise they will lose their businesses. It is not clear yet which companies will be entitled to be digitized …