Politics

Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan’s son, Spartak Ghukasyan, gave himself up to the police. Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General informed us about this yesterday. Spartak Ghukasyan has been under investigation since May 24. He participated in the May 20 shooting in Gyumri. There are three other detainees in connection with the shooting: Kolia Ghukasyan, a Gyumri …

Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General informed that Spartak Ghukasyan, son of the mayor of Gyumri, Vardan Ghukasyan, surrendered to the police and was immediately taken to a prison in Artik, a small town near Gyumri. Spartak Ghukasyan has been under investigation since May 24. He participated in the May 20 shooting in Gyumri. Rustam Sargsyan …

“No country in the world, including the U.S., has recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state. Thus, we don’t recognize the elections either,” Rudolph Perina, U.S. Temporary Charge d’ Affaire, told “Liberty” radio. “That is why we did not officially send observers and did not give an evaluation on the elections,” mentioned the U.S. diplomat, adding …

Based on preliminary results, defeated Nagorno-Karabakh presidential candidate and former Deputy Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, Masis Mailyan, accepts his loss and is preparing to congratulate the newly elected president of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan, over the telephone. However, Mailyan will do so only after the publication of the final election results. Mailyan dispersed an announcement Friday, mentioning …

There are rumors that the former head of the National Tax Service, Felix Tsolakyan, resigned in order to be appointed head of the National Security Service. Let’s remind that Tsolakyan was a former senior KGB agent. When talking to us on the phone, Tsolakyan denied those rumors, saying “What new position are we talking about? …

Today presidential elections are taking place in Karabakh. Despite the fact that the international organizations are claiming that they are not going to recognize these elections in NKR, we all know that they are all expecting to see if the elections conform to democratic standards or not. Perhaps that is the reason numerous international monitors …

Former NA deputy Hmayak Hovhannisyan is looking for a courageous person among the 131 MPs who can go and buy a flower wreath for the National Assembly and put an inscription on it, “from me and Hmayak Hovhannisyan.”  – The opposition of this parliament must be considered as one which is representing the interests of …

Eight months prior to the presidential elections in Armenia, two contradicting and radical approaches dominate. According to one of them, there is no alternative as to who the next president of Armenia will be; the other approach claims that Serge Sargsyan doesn’t have any chance to be elected. In fact, the two approaches are wrong. …

According to the RA Prosecutor General’s office, the group of investigators that left for Moscow has questioned nine citizens, in each of whose names 19,800 dollars was sent to Yerevan, part of the case in which former RA Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan is accused of “money-laundering”. The questioned, according to the prosecutor’s office, said that …

Vazgen Manukyan, leader of the National Democratic Union, told our correspondent Wednesday that in essence he didn’t deny the rumors going around that he may be represented as the ARF candidate during the 2008 presidential elections. In response to the question as to whether it was accurate that he was going to be the ARF …