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25/12/2024

Working citizens will work less

“The RA Draft Law on Making Amendments and Supplements to the Labor Code” proposes to reduce working hours from 8 to 7 hours daily and from 40 to 35 hours weekly while maintaining current salaries. This draft was presented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Deputy Minister Ruben Sargsy...

25/12/2024

“We were very scared at the Hakari bridge, they made my husband get out of the car” – forcibly displaced person

Marine Aghabalyan was forcibly displaced from occupied Artsakh. She left on September 25th and traveled for 3 days. “We were very scared at the Hakari bridge, they made my husband get out of the car and opened the trunk. They came to photograph me and asked where we came from, but I didn’t answe...

23/12/2024

“This is the outcome of aggressive protection of banking interests”: Government to settle citizens’ non-performing loans

During the government session on December 12, it became known that the executive body will support those borrower individuals whose all loans have been considered non-performing for 3 or more years, and, at the same time, the principal amount obligation does not exceed 1 million drams or its equival...

23/12/2024

“Vice President of Armenian Lawyers’ Association Meets with President of Austrian Bar Association”

Marat Atovmyan, Vice President of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association, Director of ATOVMYAN Law and Consulting Company, and attorney-at-law, met with Dr. Armenak Utudjian, President of the Austrian Bar Association and attorney-at-law. During the meeting, the parties discussed the specificities of le...

22/12/2024

“There’s a hole here, it was paper”: lawyer insists police conducted an illegal search of client’s car

Police arrested the client of lawyer Artashes Hovhannisyan on October 7 on suspicion of possessing and selling illegal drugs. After the arrest, the police searched the man’s car without having such authority. Aramayis visited his friend that day for the purpose of meeting at the stone production f...

22/12/2024

“It must have reached approximately 1 million dollars”: witness about renovation of Mashtots house belonging to Hovsepyans’

Today, on December 17, the court hearing on the case of the former Chairman of the Investigative Committee, former Supreme Council deputy, and former Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan continued in the Anti-Corruption Criminal Court. The presiding judge is Tigran Davtyan. According to Iravaban.net,...

22/12/2024

Artsakh Movement participant Radik Torosyan also participated in the 2020 war

Radik Torosyan volunteered for the war unleashed by Azerbaijan on September 27, 2020. His son, Khachatur Torosyan, told within the framework of Iravaban.net‘s “Immortal Victims of the Artsakh War” series that his father was also a participant in the Artsakh Movement. “There he received an in...

17/12/2024

Hidden Aspects of the Anti-Corruption Committee Chairman Candidates Selection Council
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16/12/2024

Verdict in Andranik Piloyan’s Case Published: He Will Be Released

The Anti-Corruption Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Tigran Davtyan, published today, December 10, the verdict in the case of National Hero of Armenia and former Minister of Emergency Situations Andranik Piloyan. According to Iravaban.net, the court ruled: Andranik Piloyan was found guilty of....

16/12/2024

Through comrades’ aid, the sick and weak recruit went up to positions and disappeared: since 2021, no one has had any information about the soldier

With high fever, weak and moving with difficulty – this is how fellow servicemen last saw soldier Norik Mkrtchyan. The family has had no news from the soldier since 2021; one thing is clear – they sent their son to the army expecting his return. “We’re going up to positions,” – Norik sai...

16/12/2024

29 real estate properties, including the famous house in Byurakan: The prosecutor presented the basis and subject of the claim in Aghvan Hovsepyan’s case

The first hearing in the case of confiscation of allegedly illegally acquired property of former Prosecutor General of Armenia and former Chairman of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan and his affiliated persons took place on December 10 at the Anti-Corruption Civil Court, presided over by...

15/12/2024

“A Christian must always think about their spiritual security” – Father Bardughimeos

Within the framework of the “The Church and the Law” interview series, Iravaban.net spoke with Father Bardughimeos Hakobyan, the spiritual pastor of St. Nahatakats Church of the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese, on the topic of “Spiritual Issues and Delusions.” -What is spiritual delusion and w...

15/12/2024

The results are quite saddening: the situation with bullying in the Republic of Armenia

Bullying is the desire of one person to emphasize their own superiority through humiliating, blackmailing, and applying physical pressure on another person. It is most simply observed among school children, and civilization is developing mechanisms against this through law, psychology, and other sci...

15/12/2024

“The commander barely managed to preserve my son’s body”: Hakob Gevorgyan saved the lives of 25 soldiers

“I raised my eldest son without a father since he was 13. He studied in school, was smart, and respected in his community,” – the mother, Lala Gevorgyan, told Iravaban.net in the framework of the series “Immortal Victims of the Artsakh War”. Captain Hakob Gevorgyan studied at the Vazgen Sa...

11/12/2024

Ameriabank Presents EventHub.am: a Streamlined and User-Friendly Ticketing Solution

The EventHub.am platform developed by Dinno, a subsidiary of Ameriabank, is broadening its offerings, now also presenting a simpler and more convenient solution for purchasing event tickets. The platform features over 300 events across more than 10 categories, including concerts, theater performance...

11/12/2024

‘I Have All Types of Education – Higher Education, Street Education, and Even Prison Education’: Judge Turned Defendant in Court

The trial of Judge Arusyak Aleksanyan, her assistant Tamara Petrosyan, and lawyer Erik Aleksanyan continued at the Anti-Corruption Criminal Court on December 10, presided over by Judge Vahe Dolmazyan. On October 17, 2022, the Supreme Judicial Council approved the Prosecutor General’s Office’s mo...

08/12/2024

Reforms in the mediation institute: Gayane Demirchyan on the creation of the Chamber of Mediators and current issues

Despite the fact that the “Law on Mediation” has been in effect since 2015, under which the Self-Regulatory Organization of Mediators was established as a coordinating body for mediators, it has not been actively functioning. In conversation with Iravaban.net, the president of the Self-Regulator...

08/12/2024

“Fire is raining from the sky, we won’t survive”: Gurgen Zakaryan fell in battle in 2022 in Syunik

On September 13, 2022, Azerbaijan launched aggression against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, targeting several areas in Syunik, Jermuk, and Gegharkunik. Gurgen Zakaryan was drafted into the army, keeping in mind the self-sacrificing heroes of 2020 who fought until the end at the...