This year, the Yerevan municipality planned to purchase 45 trolleybuses with its own funds. But now it turns out they have no money, so the purchase will be made with state budget funds—while the city can allocate huge sums to various NGOs and known or unknown organizations.
Prior to sanctions imposed on Russia, the company had comparatively modest tax obligations, but in recent years it has contributed tens of billions in taxes derived not from domestic production but from import-export operations. While these payments inflate budgetary figures, they do not substantively benefit the domestic economy or citizens. This mechanism enables the authorities to present the fiscal situation as favorable while masking structural weaknesses.
Recalling that today marks the end of the Somme offensive in 1916, which caused hundreds of thousands of casualties in the British, French and German armies, War Veteran noted that after that in fact the United States was dragged into the First World War, and in Colonel Macgregor’s judgement, this was the beginning of everything goes wrong in the History of European Civilization.
The Christian Solidarity International (CSI) human rights organization is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in Armenia regarding the crisis in Church-State relations and the arrests of the high-ranking clerics and supporters of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church. In an interview with “168 Hours”
On November 13, 2025, law enforcement officers searched the office of the news platform AntiFake.am, as a result of which the majority of the equipment essential for the outlet’s broadcasting and daily operations was seized. In particular, all computers were taken, along with the podcast microphones, all available cameras, tripods and stands for cameras and microphones, filming drones, batteries and their chargers, storage devices, cables, all live-broadcasting equipment, the audio mixing console, and more, making it practically impossible for the media outlet to continue its work.
Concerned about the illegal and systemic nature of the current regime’s actions aimed at destroying democratic institutions and suppressing the opposition in every possible way,
Today, on the morning of November 13, with an already familiar scenario and almost identical procedures, the law enforcement bodies — investigators of the Investigative Committee and masked officers of the National Security Service (NSS) — once again raided the homes of Narek Samsonyan and Vazgen Saghatelyan, co-hosts of the Imnemnimi podcast.
At the end of the interview, Amsterdam urged the public to read the 61-page White Paper titled “Nikol Pashinyan and the Persecution of Samvel Karapetyan and the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church,” available online at “freekarapetyan.com.”
L’ARMÉNIE EST DEVENUE L’OTAGE D’UNE GUERRE GÉOPOLITIQUE CYNIQUE: TIGRAN YEGAVIAN & ARTHUR KHACHIKIAN
Arthur Khachikian, Stanford University PhD Graduate in Political Science, USA, discussed the agreement signed in Washington on August 8, and concerns about Armenia’s security with James W. Carden, editor and columnist at The American Conservative, former U.S. State Department adviser, and a senior advisor to the American Committee on the US-Russia Accord (ACURA)
