Politics

“I myself will announce the appointment of the head of the main Armed Forces headquarters in a couple of days upon receiving the corresponding decree of the president of Armenia,” Armenian Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan said on Monday. The minister added that commander of the Karabagh army and Lieutenant General Seyran Ohanyan is a possible …

The media reported that on the evening of May 3, the former head of the Civil Aviation Department of Armenia, Shahen Petrosyan, was abducted from one of the clubs of Yerevan and beaten. Considering the public interest in this incident and in order to verify this information, the working group set up on the instruction …

“During each new election, the Armenian Republican Party is going to try to maintain the seats it had in the previous parliament and increase the number of seats as much as possible,” said speaker of the National Assembly and deputy leader of the ARP, Tigran Torosyan. Torosyan said that the strategy of the ARP is …

Recently, Armenian mass media published information according to which the Armenian Progressive Party had dropped out of the election campaign for the Republican Party and had transferred a list of 20,000 signatures of voters and passport information. This was the announcement made by Tigran Urikhanyan, leader of the Progressive Party. Member of the Central Electoral …

What “absurdities” have Armenian Popular Party representative Ruzan Khachatryan and Dashnak Alvard Petrosyan found during the pre-election campaign? “The most absurd thing is that those parties that are quickly distributing electoral bribes, stand on stage and say to the people to not take bribes,” said Khachatryan at the “Hayeli” club on Monday. “It is obvious …

Azerbaijani authorities are running an anti-Armenian campaign in the country. This is what members of the Armenian athletic delegation, including vice-president of the State Sport Committee and Secretary General of the Armenian National Olympiad Committee Armen Grigoryan, vice-president of the Armenian National Olympiad Committee Razmik Stepanyan, and chief trainer of the Greek-Roman style wrestling team …

On Monday, almost the entire staff of the Central Electoral Commission, including deputy chief of police of Armenia Hovhannes Varyan and Deputy Prosecutor General of Armenia Gevorg Danielyan, met with heads of the precinct electoral commissions (PEC) to explain to the latter about their rights and responsibilities before, on, and after Election Day. Danielyan announced …

Relations between Georgian-Armenians and the Georgian government have become considerably strained recently. Nearly a month ago a policeman in Javakh, for some reason, decided that if the motorcyclist doesn’t stop upon hearing the policeman’s demand, he must shoot him. The shot was fired and became fatal for a 30-year old father of two. Nonsensical things …

Yesterday president Kocharyan visited schools #125 and #80 of Yerevan, which are being reconstructed by the “Lincy” foundation, and also the new Saralanj freeway to see the situation of the work already implemented. “I thought we could draw attention to other things rather than the elections and show that there are other things happening in …

“I am announcing the contents of the secret negotiations since the Armenian side is distorting the real content and agreements in the negotiations; particularly, they are saying that there is an agreement to hand back five regions, which is not true. We have been suggested that, but we refused; thus we have already agreed upon …