Politics

It’s been awhile since everything has been going on in a wrong and strange way. The reasons of that may be sought in the widespread “ruralization” dominating in our country. Unfortunately, it has become a normal phenomenon in our society when the intellectual and professional people are replaced by “morons”, “jerks”, or more accurately to …

Chief of the number three automobile transportation conglomerate assembly and Armenian by nationality Mikhail Vardazarov was assassinated on Monday night in Moscow. The murderers ran off in the distance and witnesses say that there were two killers. One of them had cut off Vardazarov’s head and escaped with a “Niva” car with the other criminal. …

During the meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Giul will probably persuade the U.S. government to put an end to the U.S. House of Representatives’ approval of the Armenian Genocide recognition resolution, according to “Associated Press”. The visit of the Turkish Foreign Minister is aimed to make …

Responding to journalists’ questions during a press conference at the business center of the American University of Armenia on Monday, president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lenmarker also discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. According to Lenmarker, “there must be and there is a possibility to come to the conclusion” of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after the …

Things are still heating up at the Constitutional Rights’ Union. After the appeal court decided to uphold the claim of Hrant Khachatryan’s partisans and considered the results of the CRU actual and existing presidency elections as invalid, the actual CRU heads quickly held a conference and as a result have been “re-elected”. However, the fact …

Yesterday RA general prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan said that the public prosecutor’s office had asked Artashes Geghamyan to visit them to give clarifications concerning his announcement saying that some people had tried to kill Gagik Tsarukyan. “In his explanations there isn’t anything that would let us institute legal proceedings. Geghamyan said in his explanations that he …

Yesterday Ashot Abovyan was appointed in the RA Central Electoral Commission as a representative of the RA judicial power by the order of president Kocharyan.

Tomorrow extraordinary elections will be organized in Rind community of Eghegnadzor region for the community head’s position. Two candidates have been nominated so far (republican Husik Sahakyan and nonpartisan Karen Kyureghyan). The former community head, Aram Kyureghyan (aged 31) got heart attack and died on December 7.

United Communistic Party suggests forming a united political power consisting of three communistic parties before the upcoming parliamentary elections. Yesterday the head of the Armenian Communistic Party board, Youri Manoukyan informed about their intention and said, “Because of the fact that we were not united we didn’t have any mandates indeed we could have five …

Yesterday the RA general public prosecutor’s office organized a meeting, where they discussed their work in 2006. They reported that the crime capacity in 2006 compared to 2005 had grown by 9,9%. The prosecutors reported that the number of grave crimes, drug and murders had grown. At the same time, the capacity of discovered cases …