Robert Kocharyan’s request for bail denied

The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative today announced that Raffi Gregorian, a former diplomat and Navy veteran known for his work for the U.S. State Department, NATO, and the UN, has joined the Board of Directors of the Initiative, which was co-founded by his late father, Dr. Vartan Gregorian. ...

I am sharing this story of fraud in seafood industry in Mauritania in an effort to disclose the dark sides of doing business in Mauritania and warn about potential risks as the one below for those companies who want to do business in Mauritania. ...

Today, in support of Tavush, citizens blocked Yerevan-Tbilisi road in Dseghi section and carried out a peaceful action. The policemen in uniform as well as in civilian clothes urged the participants of the action to open the road and then use force against the citizens, including the representatives of the mass media. ...

The police officers used brutal force against Ani Gevorgyan, journalist and editor of NewDay.am website, and cameraman Janibek Khachatryan, who covered the protest action of citizens in Tavush region for days against the unilateral concessions and the false process of border demarcation and delimitation initiated by the authorities. ...

Artsakh Union President Artak Beglaryan and International and Comparative Law Center representative Philippe Raffi Kalfayan, together with representatives of a number of other Armenian non-governmental organizations, participated in the discussions of the UN Committee against Torture in Geneva on April 22-23. The Committee was examining the periodic report of Azerbaijan. They also held a number of meetings with various UN mechanisms. ...