Politics

The second mobile operator of Armenia, VivaCell has officially approved the information that VivaCell company has been sold to MTS, a Russian company. According to their information, MTS has bought 80% of the shares and paid 310 million Euro for this transaction. According to their shares purchase agreement, the remaining 20% of shares will be …

Azerbaijan will not be represented during the session of the CIS general public prosecutors’ interconnecting council to be held in Yerevan on October 9. According to “Uch Nokta”, an Azeri newspaper, on Thursday the media department of the Azeri general public prosecutor’s office made a statement reading that the general public prosecutor “has not participated …

Yesterday RA prime minister Serzh Sargsyan gave an interview to the chief editor of Azg daily Hakob Avetikyan on the air of H1. It was expected that the prime minister would speak about the upcoming presidential elections, notwithstanding he discussed mostly economic and social issues, some of which are presented herein.  -You have numerously said …

Yesterday the leader of the Legal State Party Artur Baghdasaryan met with the director of the U.S. State Department’s Caucasian Bureau Paul Waller and Rudolf Perina, U.S. Charge d’Affaires. According to the press service of the Legal State party, they discussed promotion of democracy and U.S.-Armenian cooperation, as well as the upcoming presidential elections and …

Today by the invitation of the President of Georgia, Mikhail Sahakashvili President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan will pay an unofficial, “friendly” one-day visit to Georgia, more concretely to Batumi. At the beginning of October Kocharyan will take part in the recurrent summit of Presidents of the CIS member states in Dushanbe. In the same city, …

Regardless of whose candidature the President of RA Robert Kocharyan would nominate for the Prosecutor General’s position or no matter how long the NA would ask questions to Aghvan Hovsepyan it was quite clear that the latter would be elected for that post. No serious analysis or forecast was necessary to assume that Hovsepyan would …

Why is the LDUA, which considers itself a liberal force next to the government right now and same liberal ANM next to opposition? Do the positions not have any connection with ideologies? Yesterday the chairman of the LDUA, Seyran Avagyan mentioned, “I was one of the founders of the ANM. However the latter was “deflected” …

Yesterday Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan in the National assembly of RA announced that Armenia’s state budget will reach a new record high level equivalent to $2.5 billion in 2008. The military potential of the next year will be 400 million USD, which is equivalent to the overall 1998 state budget. Interviewed by journalists afterwards, Sarkisyan …

As it’s known at the end of this month RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan is leaving for Moscow. According to our sources the Prime Minister is going to meet his Russian counterpart, RF Prime Minister and the co-chairman of the Armenia-Russian Intergovernmental Commission. However, according to well-informed sources the visit is going to mainly imply …

 “20 thousand US dollars were transferred to each bank account of 9 persons. If Arzumanyan’s friend sent the money as assistance, he would not have transferred it to henchmen and would not pay them for their service. This fact was confirmed by the “henchmen”, and the fact that false bank transferring was carried out was …