Politics

On September 7 before the final outcome of the local government elections in Arabkir community would be published Albert Yeritsyan celebrated his victory with fireworks. At the same time the loyalists and teammates of candidate Zoya Tadevosyan (Heritage party) were discussing the fact that the elections had been violated. Mrs. Tadevosyan told the A1+ news …

As it was predicted the elections in Arabkir community proceeded in a super tens environment. The voting day was launched by bloodshed. In the morning at about 9:20 when several of the guys of Tbilisi highway #7 tried to go out to vote at the polling station 4/02 suddenly 4 SUVs entered the neighborhood. About …

As precisely described by a Heritage faction member Styopa Safaryan there was a real “money laundering” going on outside the precincts on September 7. He told this the reporter from the A1+. The money laundering was organized by a local government candidate Albert Yeritsyan. “Community elections were very important to understand where the society goes. …

The community elections of Arabkir held on Sunday proceeded in an environment of numerous arguments, scuffles, threats and other outstanding incidents. In almost all the 49 precincts of the community incidents took place. Even if in some of them the environment was more or less quiet then outside of the polling stations the environment was …

On September 4 the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan made a speech about the foreign policy of Armenia over the meeting with Armenian ambassadors and permanent representatives of the republic to international organizations. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech made public, he indicated why Armenia doesn’t recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Akhazia. “The question …

On September 4 the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan made a speech about the foreign policy of Armenia over the meeting with Armenian ambassadors and permanent representatives of the republic to international organizations. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech made public he also indicated that situation formed in the region has first of all hit the …

This evening the national teams of Armenia and Turkey will play a selection match in the Hrazdan stadium of Yerevan. This match is really a historical event and nothing can change the meaning of this match. Even the ARF’s protest actions against Gul cannot change the meaning of this match. On the other hand, in …

The special investigation department of Armenia has finished the criminal proceedings of 7 citizens accused in connection with the events of March 1 and collected facts proving that Myasnik Malkhasyan, Sasun Mikayelyan, Hakob Hakobyan, Alexander Arzumanyan, Shant Harutyunyan, Grigor Voskerchyan and Suren Surenyan have committed specific criminal actions. H. Hakobyan, A. Arzumanyan, Sh. Harutyunyan, G. …

The EU European enlargement commissioner Oli Ren has welcomed Turkish president Abdullah Gul’s decision to visit Armenia. “The Georgian crisis has shown that it is important to develop friendly relations in the region, including the Armenian-Turkish relations,” writes the EU assignee’s statement. The latter hopes that other people will follow Gul’s first step targeted at …

Yesterday Serzh Sargsyan met with the special envoy of the president of Turkey Abdullah Gul, Ambassador Unal Cevikoz. During the meeting they discussed the upcoming visit of the president of Turkey to Yerevan on Sargsyan’s invitation for the football match Armenia vs. Turkey. Describing the visit of the special envoy of the president of the …