Politics

Emin Samsonich and the trout Yesterday was question and answer session at the National Assembly – MPs vs. Government. 32 MPs have been in line to ask questions to the government officials out of all the members of the Parliament present at the session. Many of them didn’t even have the chance to do so. …

Despite the great number of murders, which are committed if not every day then at least once every 10 days it turns out that the “statistical data” are not troublesome at all. If there is anyone, who believes that there is great level of crime in Armenia, he/she is mistaken because according to the statistical …

Yesterday President Robert Kocharyan held a consultation with Armenia’s tax and customs authorities, saying they have failed to combat tax evasion, corruption within their ranks and privileged treatment enjoyed by some businessmen. Kocharyan voiced the strongly worded criticism at a meeting attended by Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan, the heads of the State Tax Service (STS) …

Today it is clear that during the upcoming presidential elections the choice will not be between electing personalities, but between public administration models. In other words, the society will have to give answer to one question only, which is whether they want to live in the existing conditions or they want drastic changes. Generally, is …

Yesterday journalists asked the head of ARP faction Karen Karapetyan to explain the reasons why “TY” newspaper had accused him in buying the entire publication of their newspaper from the booths of “Haymamul”, to which he answered, “I have clear perception about the publication of the newly established newspaper. They have tried to use my …

“These 4 months show that I have a crystal biography. All my life has been open to the society. I have nothing to be ashamed of,” yesterday announced the ex-foreign minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan, who had recently been released from jail. To the question whether his arrest was connected with the upcoming Presidential elections …

Yesterday the fall session of the newly elected Parliament was launched. And yesterday was one of the rare days when for the first time all the MPs have gathered in the Parliament after their well-deserved vacations. This fact was proven not only by the discontent faces of the MPs, who were sitting in the NA …

On September 8 after a closed court session the first instance court of Vanadzor made a decision to take Arman Darbinyan, the son of the Vanadzor city mayor’s brother. To note, Arman Darbinyan has been called by the general public prosecutor’s office for testimony connected with the recent murder of the prosecutor of Lori region …

According to our information, ARP member, MP and former minister of Justice David Harutyunyan will be appointed as the head of the Armenian delegation to the PACE.

Very soon sociology may be assigned to the category of the lie, bad lie and statistics in the well-known saying. After having “managed out” the parliamentary elections, the most sociologist of Armenia, Aharon Adibekyan has started to research the social field. By the support of the UN “Millennium program” he has surveyed the poverty in …