Politics

ARF faction member and former presidential candidate Vahan Hovhannisyan has proposed a suggestion to establish a public chamber. He believes it is the best way to go out of the political crisis. According to press publications, Vahan Hovhannisyan has also informed about this suggestion to his coalition colleagues. However, this suggestion may be a reason …

Prosperous Armenia faction MP and member of the Armenian delegation to the PACE Vahe Hovhannisyan has approved the rumors that he has submitted an application to speaker Tigran Torosyan for the purpose of dropping his mandate. He said that the reason of his resignation is private issues. “I just want to change my job and …

On April 23 president Serzh Sargsyan signed an order to dismiss general-lieutenant Gourgen Melkonyan from the defense deputy minister’s position. To note, after the presidential election Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced that army generals Manvel Grigoryan and Gourgen Melkonyan were joining the people.

President Serzh Sargsyan has not answered to the suggestion of Heritage party leader to organize a dialog between him and opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan. However, Heritage faction secretary Stepan Safaryan says that Levon Ter-Petrosyan has agreed. “Before the discussions in Strasburg Raffi Hovhannisyan suggested Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Serzh Sargsyan to participate in a dialog organized …

Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Harutyunyan has published an extraordinary report on the presidential election of February 19 and the post-election developments. The report contains separate parts about the rallies and demonstrations following the election, the events in the Liberty square and in the Square after Myasnikyan not far from the Embassy of France, the state …

Former NA MP Hmayak Hovhannisyan, who after the Parliamentary elections of May 12, 2007 came up with the initiative and necessity of creating a Public Chamber, during the meeting with us yesterday promised to “make noise and accuse” the ARF MP Vahan Hovhannisyan. A few days ago the latter announced that he finds it necessary …

“Based on the structural changes in Armenia’s government, the further plan of actions will be specified,” RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan told journalists. "I think that the most important thing is to attract the public attention to the priorities designated in the government’s program, and to the primary issues set forth by RA president. These …

After the presidential elections of February 19 during March-April months local government elections were held in several cities of Armenia and in the coming future local government elections will be held in four communities of Yerevan. No opposition representative applied to run in the local government race. The opposition doesn’t have any candidates running in …

“Armenia is currently in a deep crisis and under these circumstances we are trying to give estimation about the inner political tension. It is not possible because the government doesn’t undertake steps, which would actually take the country out of the crisis. Their activities are accepted as fact steps to cheat the people,” said a …

Lusine Sahakyan, the defender of Gagik Jhangiryan, informs that on April 18, 2008 the district court of Center and Nork Marash communities heard the petition of the chief investigator of the special investigation service V. Harutiunyan which breaches the Armenian legislation and international laws and prolonged the custody of Gagik Jhangiryan by two months, until …