Politics

Levon Ter-Petrosyan addressed a speech to businessmen during his pre-election campaign and said that if Serzh Sargsyan were elected, they would become “bums”. Answering to our question that whether he has any intentions to leave his business and sell what he has and leave from Armenia because it has been four months since Serzh Sargsyan …

– During a recent meeting with customs and taxation officials president Sargsyan instructed them to be stricter to businesses. According to our information, there are some businesspeople who are complaining of this strict policy and say that it can’t go on like this. – Our taxation field is divided into two parts. One of those …

Yesterday the first instance court of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan sentenced Davit Matevosyan to a three-year imprisonment. The latter is a member of the Alternative Civil Movement and member of Ter-Petrosyan’s campaign. Matevosyan’s attorney Artavazd Parsadanyan stated that his client has appealed yesterday’s verdict in all the other courts of Armenia as well …

Yesterday the criminal court made a verdict to release Vardan Jhangiryan on signature not to leave the city. Vardan Jhangiryan, who is the brother of the former Deputy Prosecutor-General Gagik Jahangiryan was charged with violence against the policeman. The judge passed this decision proceeding from the bad state of health of Vardan Jhangiryan. This fact …

The pro-government members of Armenia’s National Assembly on Monday voted unanimously in favor of setting up an ad hoc commission tasked with a parliamentary investigation into the March 1-2 deadly clashes between opposition supporters and security forces. The Heritage faction boycotted the vote on the grounds that the National Party had rejected their proposals. Thus, …

We have been informed by reliable sources of information that there are serious reasons why the head of the Armenia pan-Armenian foundation Vahe Aghabekyan resigned and even there is an interesting story. The problem is the fact that during the annual TV marathon in 2007 the total amount of the collected donations is not $15 …

The political developments after the events of March 1 in Armenia are reaching their termination point, which means that unlike any scenarios of development in the country the political processes will enter into a new phase of development very soon. We can understand what the new phase will be like basing on some facts that …

The municipality of Yerevan has one more time rejected the opposition’s application to organize a rally. For the first time the city administration office rejected the application on June 12 with the substantiation that there would be an event entitled “small Yerevan” in the Liberty square. The second refusal was substantiated with the fact that …

Commander of the Shushi liberation special army group Zhirayr Sefilyan, who was set free from the prison on Saturday, has announced that several organizations, including the ARF, need to be cured. “One can be ARF Dashnaktsutyun with nature and ideologies. Such ideologies cannot be taken out from people. I don’t know whether such ideas are …

On Monday co-reporters of the PACE monitoring commission John Prescott and George Colombier will visit Armenia. They are planning to have meetings with president Serzh Sargsyan and other politicians, including the first president of Armenia. The purpose of the visit is to get informed about the process of fulfilling the requirements of the PACE resolution. …