Politics

Yesterday during the meeting with journalist the Chairman of the Audit Chamber of Armenia Ishkhan Zakaryan stated that that in 2007-2008 the 9 companies working abroad paid to the Armenian budget only 37 million dram altogether while the ArmAir company which in 2008 used only 1 helicopter to spray trees etc. paid 41 million dram. …

Yesterday the Audit Chamber of Armenia convened its regular session, during which they were discussing the activities of 5 sectors – justice, finances, sports and youth ministries, the functioning of the aviation and the activity of the social foundation of 2007-2008. The Audit Chamber was able to inspect only a part of the activities of …

After listening to the final report of the NA Ad-Hoc Commission inquiring into the March 1-2 events, RA Human Rights Defender Armen Harutiunyan came to the conclusion, "They saved the Prosecutor-General." "The document lacks specifics although all questions are correctly formulated. The Commission stumbled in the descriptive part. The report didn’t refer to the state …

Yesterday during the ceremony of Iftar Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that his country’s position has not changed and that the border with Armenia will be kept closed unless the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is resolved. “If we do not see Armenia taking action, the border will not be opened,” said Erdogan. “Turkey finds …

According to our information, the authorities are discussing the names of historians to be included in the sub-commissions of historians in charge of developing Armenian-Turkish diplomatic relations. People know the names of most of these historians such as the rector of Yerevan State University Aram Simonyan, the head of the Academy of Sciences Institute of …

After three months of silence the Armenian National Congress organized a rally in the vicinity of the Matenadaran. The rally was followed by a march in the center of Yerevan. During the rally first president Levn Ter-Petrosyan had a long speech, in which he spoke of almost everything that had happened during the past three …

According to our information on the days of “culmination” of the disruption of the Heritage party its founder Raffi Hovhannisian was in Moscow, where he was having meetings with certain politicians of Russia. When speaking to our reporter the currently former member of the Heritage board Anahit Bakhshyan confirmed that Hovhannisian was in Moscow on …

We can measure the efficiency of the president’s meetings with political party leaders based on the recent two meetings. If the recent initiative of inviting 64 political parties to discuss the Armenian-Turkish relations had not took place, no one would know that there were 64 parties in Armenia, and people would remember the recent two …

Yesterday the chairman of the parliamentary ad hoc commission on the investigation of the March 1-2 tragic events Samvel Nikoyan, 15 months after these events, finally publicized the report of the body headed by him. This document, which consists of approximately 150 pages, in fact doesn’t say much and once again proves that this ad …

The state budget 2010 to be submitted by the government will be approximately in the amount of 840 billion AMD. Yesterday the minister of finances Tigran Davtyan informed our reporter about this. The budget of 2009 was defined for 945 billion AMD but by the end of the year it will be fulfilled by 910 …