Politics

Just a couple of days before the May 12 parliamentary elections, Armenian police proudly indicated that they had uncovered a case of money-laundering. The “money-launderers”, according to the RA National Security Service, are in this case former RA Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan and former Deputy Minister of Defense Vahan Shirkhanyan, who had flown to Moscow …

During the days before the politicians’ vacation (vacation after which the presidential campaign will take full swing), there were opinions heard from different places about the possible return of the founding president of the first Republic of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. On the one hand, the authorities [by way of Garnik Isagulyan] and on the other …

By the RA president’s order issued yesterday, the head of the RA government taxation services, Felix Tsolakyan, was dismissed from his position. Vahram Barseghyan, who had been working as the head of the president’s control department before that, was appointed in that position. By another order, Tsolakyan was appointed as an adviser to the president. …

Yesterday the first-instance court of Yerevan Kentron and Nork-Marash communities, represented by judge Pargev Ohanyan, made a verdict to absolve the heads of “Royal Armenia” company. The director (Gagik Hakobyan) and deputy director (Aram Ghazaryan) of the company, who had been under arrest since October, 2005, were set free from the courtroom yesterday. The court …

“You know I get surprised by the level of the audacity of people who say that I will put forth my own nomination while I’m alive. This is the peak of audacity. They say that they can make a better president than a person who’s brought self-determination to this nation and independence through a national …

Perhaps one can state without hesitance that the coming presidential elections in NKR are pretty much predetermined. We may assume that Bako Sahakyan is going to be elected president, as he has been already been approved by the opposition and the government. On July 13, analysts Liz Fuyler and Richard Giragosian published an article about …

New details were revealed in the case of Alexander Arzumanyan (accused of money laundering). The Arminfo agency has distributed an announcement about this, based on its Moscow sources. According to this information, the group of Armenian investigators who were sent to Moscow about a month ago discovered new details. “In particular, Vahan Shirkhanyan and Alexander …

On July 14, Lusine Ghevondyan and Arthur Hovhannisyan were arrested and charged with helping organize the murder of Sedrak Zatikyan, son of former district head of the Malatia-Sebastia district, Vahan Zatikyan. The two are now being investigated. This is what was stated in the announcement dispersed by the Prosecutor General’s office Monday. Let us recall …

You may agree that it’s not that pleasant to find out from a German magazine, to which your country’s Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan has given an interview, that he has intentions to run for president in 2008. Of course, Robert Kocharyan has frequently been saying that he’s going to support Sargsyan during the presidential elections. …

Several separate opposition parties have again come up with an announcement that the only way to struggle against the existing authorities is running with a joint candidate. As usual, after such announcements they say that they are not the only one to think so, that they have many followers, and they are just negotiating on …