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Headlines for July 09, 2012

OLIGARCHS' PERSONAL INTEREST PREVAILS
We talked to the Chairwoman of the Association For Sustainable Human Development, environmentalist Karine Danielyan on recent environmental issues. Dwelling on the recent alarms on construction works ...
HARSNAKAR'S "DEFENSE"
On July 8, Ruben Hairapetyan personally met the citizens who went to his restaurant to light candles in memory of Vahe Avetyan who was beaten up to death there. Hairapetyan and the police met people together. ...
OPEN LETTER BY VETERANS TO SERZH SARGSYAN
Ahead of the presidential election in NKR, about 100 veterans of Artsakh war addressed an open letter to the RA president, explaining their decision by the role of the Armenian authorities on the NKR ...
NEW INCIDENTS IN HARSNAKAR
Human Rights Defender of Armenia Karen Andreasyan made a statement which particularly runs that on July 8 fresh incidents were reported in Harsnakar restaurant. The hot line of the Ombudsman's Office ...
PASSPORT ISSUE HAS BEEN SOLVED
The police has reacted to recent complaints on lack of new passports. Citizens applying for the new passport are told there is no paper for passports so they need to wait. As a result, the passport departments ...
VETERANS ON THREAT TO STABILITY
100 veterans of Artsakh war called on Serzh Sargsyan not to allow Bako Sahakyan to use administrative resources and other illegal methods in the upcoming presidential election. The veterans warned that ...
FOOTBALL FIELD OF KARAKERT RENOVATED WITH THE SUPPORT OF ORANGE FOUNDATION AND THE CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND
In Karakert rural community of Armavir region was opened the local football field renovated with the support of Orange Foundation and the Children of Armenia Fund. To mark the opening of the football ...
GRANT EATER OMBUDSMAN
The Human Rights Defender reacted to the incidents in Harsnakar through a statement, as well as defining the line between civil freedom and rights of oligarchs to protect their property by force. But ...
POLICE MUST LAUNCH CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
Yesterday evening Republican Ruben Hairapetyan knocked down the human rights activist and member of Helsinki Association Arman Veziryan. In an interview with Lragir.am the chair of Helsinki Association ...
2012 - YEAR OF FOOD CRISIS
2012 will be a food crisis year, said economist Tatul Manaseryan noting that it won't bypass Armenia. According to the economist, in order to avoid the food crisis, it is necessary to first of all develop ...
MERCI LA FRANCE OR C'EST LA VIE
Something strange happened in France relating to the law on the criminalization of the Armenian genocide denial. First, the minister of foreign affairs of France Laurent Fabius said that Hollande's government ...
WITH OLIGARCHY OR ON OLIGARCHY 2
Whenever referring to the oligarchic system in Armenia, most people say the head of this system is the head of state, independent from what his name is. In reality, the oligarchic system in Armenia does ...
APPEAL TO THE DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS IN ARMENIA
Over thousand members of the civil society of Armenia have signed an appeal addressed to the Diplomatic Missions in Armenia to hinder any chance of Ruben Hayrapetyan, an MP and the owner of 'Harsnaqar' ...