Politics

There are 3543 prisoners in 12 prisons of the RA Justice ministry. 123 out of them are women, and 51 – teenagers. There will be polling stations in prisons for the prisoners to vote during the February 19 presidential election. There are 570 prisoners who have the right to vote.

Today Russian PM Viktor Zubkov is paying an official visit to Armenia. The mentioned delegation led by the PM also includes the transport minister Igor Levetin, IT and communications minister Leonid Reiman, production and energy minister Andrey Dementev, the head of the customs federal department Andrey Belyaninov, the head of the atomic energy federal agency …

The Euro Union president, the foreign affairs minister of Slovenia Dmitri Rupel has come up with a speech on the results of his meeting with the Azeri foreign affairs minister Elmar Mamediarov. “We hope that the elections in Armenia and Azerbaijan this year will not affect the process of Karabakh conflict peaceful settlement and will …

The conversations about the union of several oppositional presidential candidates and endorsement of a single candidate becomes more concrete day by day. Recently there has been a publication in the press media, by which it was assumed that the ARF candidate Vahan Hovhannisyan, NDU candidate Vazgen Manukyan and chairman of the Heritage Party are contemplating …

The top topic of the recent days campaign developments became the announcements of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and later Artur Baghdasaryan that they are in the process of negotiation in order to build a coalition during the upcoming presidential elections. Till now the head of Artur Baghdasaryan’s pre-election campaign Heghine Bisharyan was shunning to give a concrete …

Yesterday said Serzh Sargsyan in Avan community when trying to respond to Ter-Petrosyan’s statements. “A tired leader can reach power only through intrigues and fragmentation of people. A leader, who is full of evil and revenge cannot attain serious results,” stated RA presidential candidate Serzh Sargsyan when meeting people in Kanaker-Zeitun community and didn’t specify …

Yesterday the first instance court of Aragatsotn in the result of the close-door trial remanded in pre-trial custody on Friday pending investigation into the alleged assault of Zhora and Mkrtich Sapeyan, Hayk Gevorgyan and Tigran Baghdasaryan. They were arrested for beating Sargis Karapetyan during Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally in Talin on January 29. One of the …

Yesterday during the meeting of the ARF presidential candidate Vahan Hovhannisyan with the voters of Tsovak village an incident occurred. At the moment when the candidate was presenting his platform to the villagers some car has started to honk the horn for a long time. The driver tried to go through the people. Later it …

Yesterday presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan held meetings at different settlements of Lori and Tavoush Marzes. The first meeting was due in Koti Village where residents received him in an unprecedented manner. Almost the whole village came down to the rally. Let’s remind that Koti is the birthplace of Vano Siradeghyan. Yesterday the first president also …

“Everyone should realize that during the pre-election period the Criminal Code of Armenia is not frozen. Vice versa, the law-enforcers are going to be stricter on those days when applying sanctions. All that should be done to ensure that we don’t have more serious problems on the election day,” the President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan …