Certainly, the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices published by the US Department of State are noteworthy, but it should be noted that there are also other more competent international organizations specializing in protection of human rights and settlement of territorial conflicts, Vice Speaker of Armenian Parliament, Spokesperson for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, told ArmInfo when commenting on the US State Department's assessment on the situation in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.     

 Within the framework of his visit to Belgium, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan on Wednesday laid a wreath to the cross-stone, which is placed in Brussels and in memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.  

The healthcare system of Armenia faces a ridiculous situation. A couple of days ago the media outlets reported that from now on citizens will have to pay for inpatient treatment of pregnancy pathologies. In addition, some medical services at polyclinics will also be on a paid basis. The idea to introduce such a mechanism of payments was conditioned by the anti- corruption fight, strange though it may seem.    

 Ler Ex company has polluted Geghi River in Syunik region, says Pan-Armenian Environmental Front.
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A number of Armenian NGOs have urged the world community to condemn human rights violations and the Mar 1 2008 events in Armenia.

 Ukraine is experiencing collapse, almost all power institutions have lost legitimacy, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, said at a press conference in Yerevan on Friday.    

Criticism in the annual report of US Department of State on human rights is not new, a deputy from the opposition Heritage parliamentary faction, Tevan Pogosyan, told Arminfo correspondent when commenting on the report 2013, which contains sharp criticism regarding Armenia.

The project to build a cafe near Garni Temple is illegal, historian Vahe Atanesyan told journalists on Friday.

 While the law prohibits torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, reports indicated that members of the Armenian security forces continued to employ them regularly, says the 2013 Country Report on Human Rights Practices published by the US Department of State on Feb 27.   

 The time has come to close the political page of the tragic March 2008 events, and only the legal page has remained. We should reply to the questions of the relatives of the victims, secretary of the ARFD parliamentary faction, Aghvan Vardanyan, told journalists today. 

 "Investigation" in the Sumgait incidents of February 1988 by the Azerbaijani prosecutor general's office has ushered a new wave of fake data on the mass killings of Armenians in Sumgait. This time, First Deputy Prosecutor General Rustam Usubov replenished the list of Azerbaijani liars. 

"I doubt if Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is aware what the Customs Union is", - secretary of Prosperous Armenia Party parliamentary faction, Naira Zohrabyan, said to journalists today. 

 The Armenian Presidential Committee on Constitutional Reform is preparing a project of transition to the parliamentary system of government, with enlargement of the prime minister's authority at the expense of the president's powers. The project will be submitted for a referendum, the Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun newspaper writes. 

 "The tragic loss of life in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia reminds us that there can't be a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," spokesperson for the United States Department of State Jen Psaki said at a briefing, APA reports.

A deputy of the National Assembly form ARFD, Aghvan Vardanyan, told journalists today that ARF Dashnaktiutyun will hold public discussion of the situation around "Nairit" plant.

The report of US Department of State on situation in Armenia corresponds to the facts, secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party parliamentary faction, Naira Zohrabyan, told ArmInfo correspondent. 

No criminal case has been instituted in relation to the situation around Araratcement Plant, Prosecutor General of Armenia Gevorg Kostanyan told journalists on Thursday.  

The Feb 26 hacking attack made by Azerbaijan was a planned attack. On Feb 26 Azeri hackers usually make attempts to crack Armenian websites. The latest attack made some Armenian websites inoperative even without cracking them, cyber security expert Samvel Martirosyan said at a press conference in Yerevan on Thursday when commenting on yesterday's Azeri hacking attacks on 300 Armenian websites. 

 Chairman of the Republican Union of Employers of Armenia, Gagik Makaryan, said at today's press-conference that the project of "Rosneft" on reconstruction of the Yerevan "Nairit" plant is rather realistic. 

 Armenia should become an indivisible part of the South Caucasus and participate in all the regional projects, director of the Armenian office of "Heifer International", Anahit Kazanchyan, said during presentation of the project "Development of innovative rural tourism", 27 February.