YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 12–Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia said on Thursday that they have formally closed a highly controversial criminal case against a youth activist who helped to trigger a scandal about alleged sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan school for disabled children. They also announced criminal proceedings against a former school teacher who was [...]

BY JEFF MASARJIAN AND JASON SOHIGIAN Armenia is very special to those of us in the Diaspora for a number of different reasons. Not typically high up on that list–due especially to a lack of public awareness–is the enormous diversity of landscape, plant, and animal life that exists in Armenia. Armenia is located at the [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 11—Yerevan City Hall will begin planting of greenery and shrubs in the Armenian capital thanks in part to the nature preservation fees that Yerevan factories polluting the air are required to pay. The head of Yerevan City Hall’s nature protection department, Avet Martirosyan told Tert.am that “city greening” projects have been designed [...]

YEREVAN (Hetq Online)– On November 23, schoolteacher Mariam Sukhudyan, 29, was interrogated at the Erebuni Investigative Unit. The young activist faces slander charges in a case regarding alleged sexual abuse by staff members at the Nubarashen Special School #10. Sukhudyan’s defense team has been bolstered by the addition of a new attorney, Liparit Simonyan. She will [...]