Armenia

Armenia: Women Do Time in “Model Prison”

Almost half the inmates of the country’s only women’s prison are serving sentences for murder.

11 Mar 04

Government critics question independence of the country's new rights investigator.

4 Mar 04

Doubts are being raised about how a wholesale lay-off of teachers in Armenia is being carried out.

26 Feb 04

Young Armenians are mixing up pagan, Christian and Western love festivals – and the church is not impressed.

13 Feb 04

Schoolteachers are the latest to protest against a big pay rise awarded to members of the Karabakh government

5 Feb 04

Thousands of Armenian women end up being sexually exploited in Turkey or the UAE – and the perpetrators are going unpunished.

15 Jan 04

Is a new media law a step forward for the Armenian press or a secret weapon in the hands of the government?

8 Jan 04

New government restrictions designed to curb Armenians' gambling craze.

18 Dec 03

Four years on, the men behind the assassinations in the Armenian parliament have been sentenced but not everyone is satisfied.

11 Dec 03

Unregulated and dangerous public transport system is costing lives in Yerevan.

4 Dec 03

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