Politics

Yesterday the parliament partially adopted the changes to the law on rallies, assemblies and demonstrations and then turned to another requirement of the PACE resolution. During yesterday’s session the parliamentarians discussed the issue of establishing an ad hoc commission in charge of discussing the reasons of the March 1 events, which has been initiated by …

Having been in the highest echelon of government for 11 years, the RA President’s office staff as first aide to the President, later as chief of staff, Armen Gevorgyan has never been engaged in public activity. Now as he is appointed vice prime minister and minister of territorial management he has decided to work openly …

ARF faction member Artsvik Minasyan says that there are three members of the government who live only on the account of their salaries. These people are ARF member Spartak Seyranyan (minister of education and science), Arsen Hambardzumyan (social protection minister) and minister of finance Tigran Davtyan. Answering to journalists’ question whether it means that the …

“Let our compatriots not worry because eventually they will be back to their homeland,” said defense minister Seyran Ohanyan when commenting on the situation of the five Armenian citizens who lost their way near the border and were captured by the Azeri forces about one month ago. Seyran Ohanyan says that on Saturday he told …

Three bills have been included in the latest fall hearings of the parliament. At first glance these bills seem to concern the fulfillment of the PACE resolution requirements. These bills may be discussed and presented as fulfillment of the PACE requirements, but in fact they are not connected with that resolution at all. The first …

“In the post-election period most of detainees have been arrested because of political reasons,” said ANM board chairman Ararat Zurabyan in his interview given to the radio Liberty in the prison of Kentron community police station. The latter says that the discussions on legal topics are in fact aimed at disorienting people from the real …

According to the information of the special investigation services in charge of the events of March 1, as of June 9 there were 38 accused citizens in preliminary arrest, and other 35 citizens have been subjected to other forms of punishment other than arrest. According to the information of the office of the prosecutor general, …

“I have said that I am not going to resign. The resignation of the Parliament Speaker is a serious event for any country. It either results from fundamental discords inside the country or a change in the political situation etc. This is not the position of a shopkeeper to allow a person to do anything …

During yesterday press conference when speaking of the allegations of some of the opposition leaders, who claim that only the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan can resolve the NKR conflict, the chairman of the NDP Shavarch Kocharyan said, “I can remind you how the government of Ter-Petrosyan ended up, remind you of the article …

Yesterday morning the commander of the separate battalion of Shushi Jirair Sefilyan was released from Vardashen Prison after spending 1.5 years in prison for carrying illegal weapon. Reminder: Sefilyan had been arrested and charged with calling for a violent overthrow of the government in December 2006 just days after setting up a new pressure group …