TIAC Communications Specialist Nune Hayrapetyan received a Transparency International Fellowship to visit Lithuania TI School on Integrity from July 10-20. Seven-day summer school gathered 140 participants from around the world. The school was full of tense-scheduled training sessions from leading experts on Anticorruption, Government and Policy, Investigative Journalism and other topics. The last three days were scheduled only for five fellows to meet with various authorities such as Anticorruption Investigative Center, Health Minister, Ethics Commission, Lithuanian Railway Company, etc. The fellows were employees of Transparency International chapters based in Armenia, Tunisia, Slovenia, Brazil and Peru.

On July 18, Sona Ayvazyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anticorruption Center and Artur Grigoryan, TIAC member and Expert participated in a meeting of the multiple stakeholder group of the Armenian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). “Support to Enhance Armenia’s Capacity to Implement EITI and to Increase Transparency and Accountability in Mining Licenses and Contracts” Project, funded by the British Embassy Yerevan was launched during the meeting.

a1plus.am covered Transparency International Anticorruption Center’s (TIAC) press conference that took place on July 7, 2017 in “Media Center.” During the press conference Varuzhan Hoktanyan, TIAC Project Director touched, among other topics, on the misuse of administrative resources on election day, presenting the results of TIAC's project “Electronic Monitoring of 2017 Parliamentary Elections” funded by Open Society Foundations - Armenia.