Politics

Yesterday president Serzh Sargsyan approved the new government and finished the process of government formation. Armen Gevorgyan has been appointed deputy prime minister and territorial management minister who had been serving as the head of the president’s administration and secretary of the National security Board. Hovik Abrahamyan has been appointed head of the president’s administration. …

Yesterday the NA Heritage Faction launched collection of signatures addressed to the Prosecutor General of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan to change the preventive punishment of the Armenian parliamentarians detained after the March 1 events. It was offered to release them on bail. Reminder: the National Assembly had expressed readiness to institute proceedings against Armenian MPs Sasun …

After March 21, when the state of emergency was raised, different organizations applied to the city administration office to get permission for organizing rallies and demonstrations. The city administration office has rejected all those applications. Later, on April 19 the municipality of Yerevan allowed the Women for Peace NGO to organize a rally in the …

On April 18 the Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Harutyunyan visited Vanatur district of Hrazdan city of Kotayk marz to meet the national liberator Arshavir Bozinyan and a third degree disabled Zhaneta Nersisyan, who went on a hunger strike. The latter told the Ombudsman that the city officials are not providing permanent medical care for them. …

– Ms. Nadezhda, there was time, when you were occupied with active politics. You were an MP of the Supreme Council of the second convocation. However, it has been awhile since you have not only been refusing to participate in any inner political process of Armenia but also refuse to echo on that. What keeps …

Based on an order issued by the prosecutor general and decision by the special investigation department the arrest verdict of Republic party board member Suren Surenyants has been cancelled and he has been set free based on a document not to leave from the city. “Aghvan Hovsepyan has done that in consideration of Surenyants’ health …

“The PACE resolution has already been adopted and we should think of the future actions,” said the NA speaker Tigran Torosyan in Setapanakert when commenting on the resolution adopted by the PACE. “I don’t agree with some provisions of that document, however I think that Armenia, being a EU member, should take steps. It does …

Several hours after the adoption of the resolution on the Armenian democratic institutes by the PACE the Helsinki commission of the Congress held a session concerning the post-election situation in Armenia and the political crisis resulted therein. During this session deputy state secretary Matthew Bryza came up with a speech. “We are continuing strictly criticizing …

Republic party Board member Suren Surenyants, who has been set free based on a document signed by him no to leave from the city, has said to the radio Liberty that he expects that his friends will be set free as well. “Those people, who have been arrested because of political reasons, should be set …

The only way to overcome the difficulties resulted from the resolution on the Activities of Democratic Institutes in Armenia adopted by the PACE, as well as the inner political situation is through open and constructive dialog between the political powers. For this purpose an independent investigation of the March 1 events should be launched and …