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On August 18 the Armenian court will proceed the case of editor of “Yerevan Time” newspaper, Arman Babajanyan. The judge that is going to take the case under consideration is Mnatsakan Martirosyan. This judge is the same person that preceded the criminal cases of “tets krug” and president’s former body guard Kuku.

After 14 years, I still remember that day in May when I entered “Yerkir” daily edition to find out news about Karabakh. A couple of days before that, I kept hearing citizens of Yerevan talking about how Armenian armed forces would soon liberate Shushi. Some were even predicting a ceasefire with the famous phrase “Whoever …

The “state aid for children who have graduated from orphanages” program has been implemented in Armenia since 2003 and it forms part of the 10,000,000 dollar project financed by the EU committee. The Labor and Social Issues Ministry of Armenia and the Armenian Relief Society (ARS) have implemented the consequent stage of the project since …

According to our information, businessman Mikhail Baghdasarov is sick and is getting medical treatment in Germany. We asked about that from the general director of “Armavia” company, Norayr Belluyan, and he approved but didn’t say what the illness was. “I can’t say that. That’s his personal life. There isn’t anything serious, he is simply going …

In our previous editions, “168 Hours” wrote about cases of financial machinations and violations in cadastre bodies registered by the RA president’s supervisory department. We wrote that the supervisory department had given all the registered facts to the general prosecutor’s office, but noted that the case was still under consideration and had not ended yet. …

Recently, during a meeting with public prosecutors, RA general public prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan mentioned a very interesting fact concerning the commission entitled to investigate the case of the Armenian A320 jet catastrophe. According to him, they haven’t given their final conclusions to the general prosecutor’s office yet despite the fact that it was published on …

On July 28, head of the Armenian Civil Aviation general department Artsyom Movsesyan announced: “The information of the International Aviation Committee (IAC) corresponds to the information of the sound recordings of the crashed A-320 plane.” Although the civil aviation general department has agreed with the IAC preliminary conclusion regarding the human factor being the reason …

After the start of the military operations in Lebanon, over 550 Armenians have left for Armenia from Lebanon and 54 Armenians from Israel. There will be an extra flight bringing 120 more Armenians to Armenia. Besides that, 51 foreigners have applied to the migration body to obtain a status of temporary protection. 49 out of …

The RA general prosecutor’s office has revealed the cases of robbery from two currency exchange points located on Baghramyan and Aztautyun avenues (Aeroex, Ugavia). These crimes were organized by citizen of Georgia A. Torosyan, who had transported his pistols from Georgia to Armenia through the customs point of Bagratashen. When he saw that some exchange …

The announcement states that the dispatchers had advised the crew to turn right and fly higher; the pilots turned off the autopilot, lost direction and went down. According to them, the crew failed to steer the plane well, but there was a warning that the plane was reaching ground. According to them, the engines of …