Politics

President Serzh Sargsyan signed the law on Yerevan adopted by the parliament during the latest extraordinary session of last year (Law on Local Government in Yerevan). Definitely the election of Yerevan mayor will take place in June-July. Currently politicians are trying to figure out who the potential candidates will be. By the way, there are …

While the PACE co-rapporteurs John Prescott and George Colombier would visit Armenia, the authorities had got used to the possibility of losing the voting right at the PACE. However, after the one-day visit of the mentioned European officials the government officials seem to be happy. According to our sources of information, the authorities could persuade …

“In 2008 Armenia had the deepest political and civic rights crisis since independence,” writes the Human Rights Watch report published recently. “International experts believe that on March 1 the security forces applied disproportional power toward the citizens appealing the outcome of the presidential election. The state of emergency declared following the events of March 1 …

“No, just no!” This is the answer of the head of the state Controller Commission, Ishkhan Zakharyan to the question of our correspondent whether he is going to publish the results of their inspections or no. During his interview in September of last year Ishkhan Zakharyan said that they had conducted inspection of the work …

The closer the winter session of the PACE is, the more realistic is becoming the possibility of depriving Armenia of its voting right. The authorities have already got used to the possibility of such scenario and initiated an “anti-European hysteria”. Even the government, which hoped that John Prescott and George Colombier would do something to …

It is about one year that Armenia does not have Ambassadors in important countries such as France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In February 2008 the Ambassador of Armenia in Italy, Portugal and Spain, Ruben Shugaryan made a joint announcement with a number of politicians to endorse the opposition candidate in the pre-election campaign and joined …

Recently Ishkhan Zakharyan, the head of the state Controller Commission, organized interview to publish the findings of inspection in Seven project implemented by the ministry of environmental protection, Sevan national park, Davitashen community, as well as a project implemented in the framework of World Bank borrowings. The head of the Controller Commission also separately spoke …

The prospect that Armenia may be deprived of its voting right in the PACE doesn’t quite concern the RA government any more. The latter have decided to change the tactics of persuading the Europeans. By being ensured that the situation is quite desperate the government has decided that before the meeting with the PACE co-rapporteurs …

Yesterday the prominent Human Rights Watch international organization issued its annual report of 2008, which grants quite a space to the events, which took place in Armenia in the last year. The experts of the mentioned organization stated that since its independence Armenia abode the deepest political and civic crisis in 2008. “The February 19 …

Today the court of general jurisdiction of Shengavit community considered the Case of 7 again, and based on the process we may assume that the proceedings will be delayed again. By the way, by coincidence just after this shameful court proceeding PACE Monitoring Commission co-reporter John Prescott and George Colombier visited Armenia for the purpose …