Politics

The fact that the phones of political prisoners, especially Alexander Arzumanyan, have been bugged by the national security services does not mean yet that their activities had been targeted at instability in the country to take the power through anti-constitutional means. In this case the danger is not in the possibility of taking the power …

A group of lawyers has been convened to protect the rights of Alexander Arzumanyan, Sasun Mikayelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan, Hakob Hakobyan, Grigor Voskerchyan, Suren Sirunyan and Shant Harutyunyan under the criminal case of March 1 events. The interests of the group will be represented in the court by Stepan Voskanyan, Liparit Simonyan, Hovik Arsenyan, Melanya Arustamyan …

Yesterday the NA standing committee on legal affairs discussed the draft law on Yerevan. Reminder: This draft has been discussed by the first reading back in winter and so far has not be submitted to the second reading. Yesterday the deputy minister of territorial administration offered the mentioned committee to prolong the second reading of …

Yesterday the rally of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) took place near the Matenadaran, which as expected turned out to be sensational. Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan called a “temporary” halt to his year-long campaign of anti-government demonstrations, citing the need to stave off greater Armenian concessions on Nagorno-Karabakh which he said are sought by the …

I am happy to inform you that we didn’t say that “yogurt is black.” We only said that we should start considering the issue from the point that the yogurt may be black, which should be accepted by the yogurt-maker too because he/she is investing efforts in it. This is approximately the answer, which the …

The establishment of the fact-finding committee on the events of March 1 continues being extended. Although the government has ordered to create such a commission months ago at present however it is not clear on what grounds it is going to be established. Will it be established on the basis of the legislation or President …

Yesterday presidential elections were conducted in Azerbaijan, as a result of which quite expectedly the winner among the 7 candidates was elected the incumbent president Heidar Aliyev. Yesterday’s elections proceeded in a free, fair and transparent environment with a 70% turnout of voters. As it’s known the actual opposition of Azerbaijan boycotted the elections and …

“A group of people had worked on the president’s speech,” told us spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Minister of RA Tigran Balayan about the speech of Armenian’s president Serzh Sargsyan during the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly. Reminder: Some parts of Sargsyan’s speech were strongly criticized. In particular, former Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosyan …

Yesterday Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan wrapped up a five-day visit to Washington with talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. They spoke about the NKR conflict resolution, Armenian-Turkish relations, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the collaboration between Yerevan and Washington. Rice mentioned that the US doesn’t advocate the idea of changing the format of …

Yesterday during his interview to the Radio Liberty the cameraman of the A1+ Hovsep Hovsepyan (who filmed the bloodshed of March 1) said that the liquid showed in his video filmed on March 1 at the crossroads of Paronyan-Lusavorich is real blood. “I filmed these scenes in the evening of March 1 at about 10:20. …