Politics

The Office of Public Prosecutor of Shirak region brought charges against Spartak Ghukasyan, son of Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan, as well as Rustam Sargsyan and Telman Karapetyan under Articles 34-104 Chapter 2, Point 1, 6 and 7, Article 235 Chapter 1 and Article 258 Chapter 4 of the Criminal Code of Armenia. The three young …

Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to release former Foreign Minister Aleksander Arzumanyan from jail pending investigation into the allegedly illegal financing of his anti-government political activities. Yesterday at the Pressing Club a number of NGO representatives summoned a roundtable to discuss what methods should be applied to release an innocent person blamed of …

NATO has somewhat changed its status in terms of its mission and goals. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia play a very important role in this context. It’s not about joining or not joining NATO, rather how involved NATO should be in the South Caucasus region. This was what international relations, strategic security, political and economic issues …

“Robert Kocharyan left for Armenia and that had a negative effect on the society of Nagorno-Karabakh. Karabakh found itself in the status of a poor friend and hoped that Kocharyan would do something. However, the people are waiting,” Manvel Sargsyan, expert for the “Caucasus” center from Karabakh, said on Friday during a press conference, in …

The opposition powers are going to file a claim in the Constitutional Court, but this time they are going to act together, not separately. They are going to apply jointly, as they think the foreseen ten-day period will be enough to investigate a case properly. All parties that found violations during the elections are going …

The violence and gunshots in Gyumri, which are connected with the names of the city mayor, Vardan Ghukasyan and his son, have not finished yet. While the mayor tells everyone, and the citizens of Gyumri, that the gunshots haven’t happened, everything is just a trick and “nothing has been proven so far,” journalists are looking …

“During the May 12 elections the influence of money was connected mainly with the Prosperous Armenia party. The RPA was using its administrative resources,” announced Arthur Sakunts, the head of the Vanadzor office of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, who had monitored the elections in Lori and Tavoush marzes. “Elections didn’t correspond to international standards and proceeded …

On May 7 Alexander Arzumanyan, former foreign affairs minister of Armenia and founder of the “Civic Disobedience” movement, was arrested not far from his house, was accused of money laundering and is still in the National Security Service department. Arzumanyan’s lawyer, Hovik Arsenyan, has filed a claim to the Secondary Court to revise the decision …

Yesterday the Prosecutor’s Office of Shirak marz released an announcement that on May 22 the police found a Toyota Land Cruiser (plate numbers – 77 UL 222) SUV, on Yerevan Street in Gyumri, near the yard of a private house. The SUV belongs to a resident of Teryan Street 133 of Gyumri, Rustam Sargsyan. The …

It’s not excluded that the international organizations may revise their reports about the parliamentary elections of Armenia in the near future and slightly lower the positive marks given to the elections. But to me, honestly, these evaluations aren’t very interesting. And in general the impression is that the evaluations of the international observers get gradually …