Politics

“The culmination of ballot stuffing was mostly within 5-6 and till 8 o’clock. At that time the vote riggers wouldn’t pay attention whether there were international or domestic monitors at the precincts. They’d come in and stuff ballots. Those were obvious cases of vote rigging,” yesterday stated Amalia Kostanyan, head of the Transparency International Organization, …

Yesterday President Serzh Sargsyan issued a message on the occasion of the election to the Yerevan City Council. The message reads in part: "Dear residents of Yerevan, The first elections to the City Council are over. We are launching a new system of administration in the capital, which is a serious progress towards reinforcement of …

Yesterday the office of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia made a statement, which reads:During the May 31, 2009 Elections for the Yerevan City Council the Office of the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia received more than 10 oral complaints, which mainly address the following issues: • Citizens were transferred by mini-buses to …

The Human Rights Defender of RA Armen Harutyunyan radically denies the accusations expressed in the joint statement of the Armenian National Congress and “Heritage” party and is not going to allow political forces to lay their blame on the Human Rights Defender. According to the Defender both the authorities and the opposition used the fact-finding …

The monitors of the European local and regional governments congress came up with an announcement stating that they are mostly satisfied with the process of Yerevan city council elections. “Generally it was organized in consistence with the European standards,” said the head of the monitors’ group, Nigel Mermagen from the UK. “From this point of …

The impression is that the president of Armenia, who congratulated the three parties which have overcome the barrier of seven per cent during the recent mayoral election in Yerevan, and the chief of Transparency International organization Amalya Kostanyan are from different countries and they are speaking of different elections. All what happened during the city …

In 2009-2010 the small and medium business sectors will be free of any administrative inspections. This information was announced by the prime minister Tigran Sargsyan during the presentation of the annual report of the RA state budget fulfillment. “I would like to inform you that by the order of the president today we will adopt …

For the first time in the history of Armenia the citizens of Yerevan will elect the city council and through this city council will indirectly elect the mayor of Yerevan. In the recent times, especially in the pre-election campaign period the political parties running for the elections numerously admitted that these elections are not of …

On May 27 the human rights defender Armen Harutyunyan promised us to provide with information concerning the fact-finding group when it became clear what the specific status of his office HR manager Vahe Stepanyan was. He also said that “next time he would send a gladiator there so that he could resist.” Two days ago …

“Last time amnesty was granted in 2006. If during these three years the society feels the necessity of a new amnesty then I am ready to practice my constitutional power. Therefore, I encourage the political forces, public council to submit to the President’s administration their recommendations and opinions about the amnesty and if as a …