Politics

Yesterday the district court of Kanaker-Zeytun, Yerevan, sentenced Hovhannes Harutiunyan to 18 months in prison. This information was provided to the Radio Liberty by Harutiunyan’s lawyer, Vardan Zurnachyan. It is not a conditional sentence, although the counsel for prosecution demanded longer sentence. According to the lawyer his client bought the bullets for his legally acquired …

Press officer of the Ministry of Defense, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan pledged that on the oath day of the newly elected president Serzh Sargsyan on April 9 a military ceremony is going to take place in the Liberty Square. According to him on that day there will be no tanks, artillery or air force used because …

This was the main point that the U.S. Charge d’Affaires Joseph Pennington tired to express during yesterday’s press conference. The American diplomat noted that the US concerns are related to the conduct of the election, the voting day and the post-election developments, the count of votes, as well as the tragedy of March 1 and …

On March 20 the government session approved the initiative to revise the law on local governments, which will be submitted to the NA in the near future. Article 84 was added by a new clause, according to which as defined by Article 108 of the RA Constitution till the completion of the process of adopting …

The official Baku is examining the procedure of the appointment and resignation of the co-chairmen of the Minks Group. This information was provided to the Trend news agency by the representative of Azerbaijan at the OSCE Fuad Ismailov. “It regards to our application to simplify the procedure of the appointment and resignation of the Minsk …

On Thursday Anahit Bakhshyan, Deputy from “Heritage” parliamentary faction, stayed in the Prosecutor General’s Office for 5 and a half hours, where she watched the video materials of March 1 incidents in a slow mode including the CD, which their faction has sent to the Prosecutor’s Office. After that she denied rumors that the car …

In 1999 I decided not to endorse any political powers any more. However, after the 2003 election and the events in 2004 I decided to endorse those who were fair and go against the official abuse. What was the difference between the presidential election 2008 and the “Armenian elections” of 1995? In 1995 it was …

Former NA personnel head (1995-1998) Ashot Antinyan, who has been living in Moscow during the recent years, in his article published in our newspaper in December 2007 forecasted the future political developments in Armenia and did not exclude that there might be not only political clashes resulting in blood, but also the possibility of state …

In autumn Galust Sahakyan assured that just in one year there would be so much money in our country that we would not know what to do with it. Yesterday he said the following in the National Press Club: “Armenia will develop rapidly and I believe in 2-3 years the participants of the rallies and …

In six months we will see a new system of political competition, which will be almost as important as the previous nationwide elections. In the nearest future the NA will adopt the law on mayor’s election by second reading because there will be local government elections in autumn. According to this law, the mayor of …