Armenia's Police: No Reason to Prosecute Football Boss
Amidst a growing public outcry against cozy ties between Armenia's government and business elite, Armenian police on Tuesday claimed that Armenian Football Federation boss Ruben Hayrapetian was not at...
View ArticleArmenia’s Deadly Dress Code
Investigators of a brutal Yerevan murder that sparked a popular outcry against Armenia's oligarchs have reduced the incident to merely an argument over fashion sense gone badly wrong.As Armenian police...
View ArticleYerevan’s Bus-Ticket Revolution?
A bus boycott entered its third day in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on July 23, with hundreds protesting against an increase in public and private transportation fees in the wake of a hike in the...
View ArticleArmenia: Bus Protests Grind on with Carpools and Conspiracy Theories
Tempers over a hike in transportation fares in Yerevan cooled on July 24, but a carpooling protest to support residents boycotting city buses continues. Meanwhile, as some observers scramble to make...
View ArticleArmenia: Bus Boycott Leads to Lower Fares
Armenia's Barevolution (Hello Revolution) may have petered out, but, in the end, its bus revolution succeeded. After a five-day-long boycott of public transportation in the Armenian capital over a...
View ArticleArmenia: Police Block Bus Activists' Tent Protest
The recent rage against higher bus fares in Yerevan may have concluded in protesters' favor, but a struggle against the man who raised those fares, Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian, is proving a bumpier...
View ArticleArmenia: Police Scrap Proposed Anti-"Gay-Propaganda" Bill
Apparently taking a cue from Armenia's closest ally, Russia, the Armenian police seem to be thinking that it is time to do something to defend traditional Armenian family values from the onslaught of...
View ArticleArmenia: A Go-Slow Investigation of Activist Attacks?
Heated differences of opinion are nothing new in the South Caucasus, but when they come with sluggish police investigations into violence against protesters, locals expect answers. So far, in Armenia,...
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