Politics

On March 1 the opposition organized a rally in four months after the last mass demonstration. The rally was organized near the Matenadaran by the Armenian National Congress. On Saturday the place of the rally was full of policemen and it proceeded without any incidents. In order to figure out how many people were participating …

In the opinion of western analysts the global economic crisis especially in post-Soviet states may cause inter-political destabilization based on social grounds. But this won’t happen in Armenia. As the rally of the opposition on March 1 showed or more accurately the speech of Levon Ter-Petrosyan the activity of both the government and the opposition …

Yesterday the Chief of the Police Alik Sargsyan during a press conference was asked how he evaluates the provisions of the report of the U.S. State Department Human Rights Watch on the excessive use of force by Police on March 1, 2008. Alik Sargsyan declared that he did not break the law he just did …

Yesterday the Armenian National Congress made a statement, which particularly reads, “On March 1 a rally will be held in commemoration of the victims, who were killed during the protest actions one year ago. For the first time in the history of the newly independent state the government shed the blood of its own people …

The last court session of the Seven Case was organized yesterday at the criminal court of Yerevan. Starting from March 1 the mentioned court will not exist any more and the case will be considered at the Kentron and Nork-Marash court of general jurisdiction. Yesterday’s court session was very interesting due to the fact that …

Human Rights Watch has published a report on the Armenian presidential election 2008 and the aftermath unrest in Yerevan on March 1-2. “Armenia yet should punish the police for disproportionate power to punish demonstrators one year after the clashes resulting in the death of ten people,” writes the report of Human Rights Watch consisting of …

On February 25 the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan and representative of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Zurabyan met with the special commissioner for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby, the ambassador of Poland to Armenia Mr. Tomas Knothe, the Head of delegation of the European Commission to Armenia Mr. Raul de Lutzenberger, the …

Yesterday the parliament finished the discussions of amendments to articles 104, 225, 300 and 301. The main disputable issue was the fifth provision of Article 225, according to which “if an event turns to mass disorder, then a person who leaves the place of the event immediately shall not be charged under the punishment of …

It’s is the deadline of the second term established by the commission in charge of investigating the events of March 1-2. Sukias Avetisyan and Gagik Abrahamyan, who are RPA faction members, have applied to the parliament to prolong the deadline with one more term till September 15 (6,5 months). During the past 8 months the …

Yesterday the NA standing committee on financial issues gave a positive conclusion about the mitigation of the excise tax for alcoholic beverages, which deserved a negative attitude on Saturday. The bill was mainly rejected by the ARF faction members. “Perhaps they benefit from the major difference between the excise tax of imported and produced alcoholic …