Politics

The court of Armenia has made a resolution to release Vazgen Sargsyan’s brother Armen Sargsyan from prison sooner than the defined term of imprisonment. The latter was imprisoned for 10 years in 2003. Armen Sargsyan was accused in organizing the killing of the head of the TV and radio committee Tigran Naghdalyan. It is worth …

The parliament has adopted the amendment to the law on TV and radio presented by the parliament (71 votes for, 5 votes against and one abstained vote), according to which there will be no TV and radio broadcast competitions till July 20, 2010. At first the parliament discussed the bill in first reading, and the …

“In small countries as our country, where about one hundred citizens may gather in one place and repeat the slogan freedom peacefully, then the understandings of organized crime fighting and public security are becoming secondary and are not important any more. In this case the primary issue is political dialog. There is no other issue. …

Yesterday one of the 7 commissions, the one in charge of examining the activities of the law-enforcing structures, formed by the opposition to investigate the events of March 1-2, which is headed by the former Minister of Internal Affairs Souren Abrahamyan presented his preliminary report. The most noteworthy moment was the 25-minute video, which clearly …

NA speaker Tigran Torosyan is not going to resign and leave his position for newly elected MP Hovik Abrahamyan. In other words, the predictions that Tigran Torosyan would follow the decision of his party board and would resign on the first day of the parliamentary session to leave his position for Hovik Abrahamyan did not …

On September 5 the All-Armenian Catholicos Garegin the Second accepted a delegation of former political prisoners after having received a letter from them. They gave a list of the political prisoners and facts to the Catholicos to prove that the criminal proceedings against them had been illegal. The members of the delegation petitioned the Catholicos …

Yesterday there was a serious incident at Hr. Kochar street of Arabkir community at 9:15 p.m. The guys who had come there from “Bangladesh” community to “struggle” for Albert Yeritsyan and the guys of Arabkir community stopped the traffic for about 20 minutes and scuffled with metallic sticks right in the middle of the road. …

Thank you for trusting me and working with me during the past three years. This is a productive work, which will continue till October 1, till the end of my tenure period. I was elected in 2005 and received 18,315 votes from our citizens. Accordingly, due to my respect to the choice of our citizens, …

The local government community head’s election in Arabkir community of Yerevan was unprecedented with the huge capacity of violence. After the presidential election of February 19 and the tragic events of March 1 the local community government head’s election in Arabkir community was the first election, which proceeded in tense environment and with serious incidents. …

The local government elections, which were held in 4 communities of Yerevan, came to prove that the syndrome of February 19 and March 1 is not yet overcome. The best evidence of that are the incidents, which occurred in Arabkir community on Sunday. These events may only conditionally be called elections because there was no …