Politics

Yesterday nine war participants joined Arshavir Bozinyan, who had been in hunger strike in Hrazdan demanding from the police to set MP Sasun Mikayelyan free. According to radio Liberty, they have gone on hunger strike for three days, after which if their demands are not satisfied they will go on a hunger strike for an …

Yesterday a group of women protested near the public general prosecutor’s building to protect the rights of the persons arrested after the presidential election. The chairman of Republic party Aram Z. Sargsyan visited them. It is worth mentioning that after April 1 Aram Z. Sargsyan was called by the police special investigation department to give …

The leaders of the political coalition have started to give joint interviews to the international media after the coalition establishment. About two weeks ago the president-elect of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the leader of the Legal State Party gave a joint interview to the American Washington Post paper right after signing the bilateral agreement. This …

The office of the human rights defender Armen Harutyunyan is sure that the amendments to the law on meetings, rallies, demonstrations and marches passed on March 20, were made in a rush and without serious expertise. This was said in a statement made by the Ombudsman’s Office regarding the law on rallies, meetings and demonstrations. …

Answering to a question concerning the reasons why deputy defense minister army general Manvel Grigoryan was dismissed from his position president Kocharyan said, “He was in vacation till April 1, and he was dismissed on April 2. If his vacation finished sooner, he would be dismissed sooner. The order does not specify the reasons of …

Yesterday LS chairman Artur Baghdasaryan organized a press conference in order, as he said, to inform good news, which is that the Legal State party has become a member of one of the biggest world party unions, the Christian-Democratic and People’s Parties international. Baghdasaryan says that their party has a voting right within the mentioned …

During a recent discussion organized by the National Press Club the head of the NDP Stepan Demirchyan said that power application on the participants of demonstrations in the Opera House square and later in the place nearby the Myasnikyan monument was groundless and not justified. “The demonstrations organized by the opposition were exclusively peaceful. There …

Republic party board member Suren Syurenyans’ lawyer Hovik Arsenyan has informed the radio Liberty that he was concerned about the conditions of Suren Surenyants, who had been in hunger strike since March 24 in the Nubarashen cells, but his client was not going to stop the hunger strike. Surenyants says that his client will continue …

Yesterday was the opening of the new head office of the Ardshininvestbank in the former Municipality building of Yerevan located on Grigor Lusavorich street. One of the main owners of the building as well as the bank is the famous International Business Center, which years ago bought other former ministry buildings in Armenia. One of …

Although the number one issue of the inner-governmental circles of Armenia is to overcome the post-electoral “riddle” and crisis as soon as possible it is still noticeable that a rough competition is proceeding within the government to pick a head of the cabinet for the government. Interestingly, the competition for the Prime Minister’s position proceeds …