Politics

Paruyr Hayrikyan’s initiative to organize periodic meetings with oppositional leaders, as it was expected, has become a process of looking for “mines” within the opposition. Following their meeting at Congress hotel of Yerevan on August 28 people started speaking about the fact that they have already found a “mine” within the opposition, who is Shavarsh …

It was president Kocharyan’s 53rd anniversary yesterday. This year the president is celebrating his birthday in Greece. The president left for Greece with a private visit on Monday, and his visit will last one week. He will return to Armenia next Monday. Yesterday the RA prime-minister and the NA speaker congratulated the president. As well …

Yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. the rescue service of Shirak marz received an alert call about the discovery of ammunition in the military commission building basement of Gyumri. It was found during the garbage collecting activity. The police and the Russian military base #102 were also informed about the mines found in the basement. According …

“For me personally this is a secondary issue. I have always been a supporter of team work. I won’t accept tragically the fact of who’s going to occupy what position in the team if let’s say the congress doesn’t elect me,” said the chair of the HRAK party, Harutyun Arakelyan during his interview to our …

Yesterday RA president Robert Kocharyan and FM Vardan oskanyan, who are in Greece now with a private visit, sent congratulations to the newly elected president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul. It is worth mentioning, that in 2003 the president of Turkey, Ahmed Sezer sent written congratulations to president Kocharyan on the occasion of being re-elected. Yesterday …

Yesterday the first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan visited Jermuk accompanied by the leaders of ANM, “Impeachment” bloc and “Republic” party. According to our information, this time Levon Ter-Petrosyan will have a meeting with few people as he has done during the previous visits too. It is not clear yet why the first president is …

As it is known, the head of the NA “Heritage” bloc, Raffi Hovhannisyan has submitted a bill to the National Assembly on recognizing the Nagorno Karabakh Republic by Armenia. It is clear that the official recognition of Karabakh will not give anything to Armenia except for a number of losses. Fortunately, the representatives of the …

The lawyer of the former RA FM and co-founder of “Civic Disobedience” movement Alexander Arzumanyan, Hovik Arsenyan was called to the national security services office yesterday to be introduced to the motion to prolong the term of arrest for two months. This two-month term of Arzumanyan’s arrest will end on September 7. H. Arsenyan has …

It is more than four months that the first Ambassador of Armenia to the UN, former FM, former head of ANM board Alexander Arzumanyan is under arrest. The group consisting of national security service officers in charge of investigating this case has two main goals. First, they have to prove that Arzumanyan has been involved …

The rumors concerning the murder of the general public prosecutor of Lori region, Albert Ghazaryan in Vanadzor city are changing their priority. Before the funeral of the prosecutor the citizens of Vanadzor were connecting the crime with the activities of former governor of Lori Henrik Kochinyan and the existing mayor of Vanadzor Samvel Darbinyan, but …