Politics

“This is a question, which we cannot avoid. The targeting of concrete businesses and the creation of obstacles for concrete businesses may create dangerous impact on the country,” during yesterday’s press conference said Aristomene Varudakis, head of the World Bank office in Yerevan as a response to the question of our reporter as to what …

Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan did not have a meeting with Turkey’ Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Kiev, RA Presidential Press Service said while commenting on Turkish media reports. Both the Armenian President and the Turkish FM attended the inauguration ceremony of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich in Kiev. During the reception following the ceremony Ahmet Davutoglu …

“The European Union started a process in the three countries of the South Caucasus, which it hopes to complete by signing a companionship agreement,” yesterday told the Radio Liberty service in Azerbaijan Peter Semneby, the EU’s special representative for the South Caucasus. He also added, “This is a new step and will envisage firmer political …

According to our information, the owner of Flash company Barsegh Beglaryan has decided to found a political party. It is not Barsegh Beglaryan’s decision but the wish of the authorities. The authorities want to have many political parties to rely on before the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, and one of these projects will be …

Yesterday the National Assembly adopted the elaborated version of the law on taxes by the first reading. Let us remember that in this notorious bill the government envisaged eight “local taxes” that could be introduced by the elected administrations of cities, towns and even villages across the country. In particular, they would be able to …

A former MP of the RA Parliament, former liberator sentenced to 8 years in jail, Sasoun Michaelyan’s state of health continues to be bad. Yesterday the coordinator of the Center of Legal Support to Convicts Armen Khachatryan informed about this. The latter informed that Michaelyan is currently in the hospital of convicts of the penitentiary …

During yesterday’ press conference of the RA minister of economy Nerses Yeritsyan the journalists had attempted to get comments on the rumors of the possible resignation of prime minister Tigran Sargsyan, the evidence of which is the latter’s absence (because of disease) in important government sessions. According to these rumors the government will be headed …

Yesterday the police hindered the march held by the young activists of the Armenian National Congress, causing a scuffle. On February 19 was the second anniversary of the tragic events of presidential elections 2008. Because of the occasion several hundred young people held a protest rally in downtown Yerevan. The march reached the building of …

“Thanks God we have showed benignity and goodwill. We wouldn’t like to open the parentheses,” yesterday stated the chief of police of Yerevan Nerses Nazaryan when speaking of the arrest of businessman Saribek Sukiasyan. Nazaryan announced that he is on good terms with Armenian parliamentarian Ruben Hayrapetyan and businessman Saribek Sukiasyan. "No one can declare …

Yesterday the Foreign Relations Committee of the NA made a decision to form a working group, which will develop the procedures of the discussion of the Armenia-Turkey protocols. Besides that yesterday the chair of the NA Hovik Abrahamyan admitted the proposal of the head of the mentioned committee Armen Rustamyan, according to which the protocols …