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Seven Jehovah’s witnesses, who have refused to continue alternative civil service, are sentenced to imprisonment for leaving the site voluntarily. The sentenced are in the list of the 22 young people who have stopped completing their alternative civil service, claiming that they have been under the supervision of the Ministry of Defense and that goes …

Whenever our pro-authoritarian television networks get an assignment, they put in a lot of effort to do their best but in the end ruin everything. It is sort of like a child that gets straight As just to please his parents and then suddenly starts studying poorly. Of course, the television networks know what to …

On November 9 at 1 p.m. the police department of Ijevan received a note from an anonymous citizen that resident and pensioner E.A. of the Getahovit village in the Tavush Marz had committed suicide in his cattle-farm. Legal proceedings have begun in the prosecutor’s office of the Tavush Marz.

On November 7 at around 1 p.m. resident of the village of Akhuryan, 47 year old Larisa Sh was transferred to the Gyumri clinic after being diagnosed with Siberian ulcer. Larisa had bought the meat from the Akhuryan market. A question comes up: how did the meat infected with Siberian ulcer appear in the market?

On November 8th, the Ararat police department received a note from the Ararat municipal hospital stating that Alina A. (born in 1983), who is a resident of the Yeraskhan village of the Ararat Marz, had laid her son Artyom Mnatsakanyan (born 15.08.2005) to sleep and then discovered that he was dead in the morning (predicting …

According to the consumer basket planned out by the Ministry of Health, we must all consume 355 grams of bread products, 100 grams of meat products, 30 grams of fish, 500 grams of dairy products, half an egg, 250 grams of potatoes, 300 grams of vegetables, 200 grams of fruit and 50 grams of sugar. …

Yesterday Kurds from different communities of Yerevan gathered at the Republic Square. The purpose was to protest on letting Abdullah Ojalan free. In fact the struggle of national minorities of Armenia is against the policy of Turkey regarding Kurds. “Turkey has no right to become a member of the EU, because it is a terrorist …

Each year, the state provides means for getting hearing aids for people who have hearing problems. “Before, we used to have thousands of devices and there were always lines; now there are no lines which means that everyone is provided with the devices,” says K. Petrosyan. With the help of the state, 500 devices have …

Of course, during these past years the gasification program made the wood trade level come down, but it has not ended yet. Some families of Yerevan still heat their apartments with wood. Especially citizens living in suburbs of Yerevan and poor families that could bring some wood from their villages use wood to heat their …

On Sunday an international philanthropic bazaar was organized at Marriott Hotel. It was supported by the association of diplomats’ wives and by first lady Bella Kocharyan. The income will be spent to take care of the needs of women and children in Armenia. During the “international philantropical bazaar” the embassies of other countries in Armenia …