Politics

Arthur Baghdasaryan has made a statement concerning the recent press coverage about the building on Abovyan street that was constructed by “Rule of Law” and said that their party had not privatized any buildings and lands or received any privileges to do that. Baghdasaryan says that there are some political parties that are spreading the …

“The president shouldn’t be afraid of the criminal “balloons”; nothing has blown up,” said leader of the “New Times” party Aram Karapetyan in response to the announcement made by President Robert Kocharyan about the anti-criminal movement “blowing up like a balloon”. As for leader of “National Unity” Artashes Geghamyan, he is of the opinion that …

On October 16, the anti-criminal movement members held conferences regarding the dollar-dram exchange rates, where there were many members of the “New Times” and “National Unity” parties. With his “big” speech, leader of “National Unity” Artashes Geghamyan tried to make the people understand that the “higher authorities” were making a lot of money thanks to …

Leader of the National Democratic Union Vazgen Manukyan has complained to the “Electoral Systems Center” in a statement. Last week, the center removed his name and last name from the list of ratings of presidential candidates from the website, claiming that some of Manukyan’s friends had voted incorrectly. “I must say that I have always …

The RA parliament organized a voting and ceased the personal untouchable right of Hakob Hakobyan (56 votes for, 22 votes against). The deputy made a speech in the parliament and hinted that he hadn’t been arrested due to the fact that everyone was given “something” instead. Concerning the rumors saying that the reason of the …

NA deputy Tatoul Manaseryan asked the general prosecutor of Armenia who the next victim in his black list was and whom he had targeted for ceasing the parliamentary right to be untouchable. Answering to that question Aghvan Hovsepyan said that he didn’t have such lists. Hmayak Hovhannisyan smiled and said to his colleague, “We are …

For more than three months now, a group of American Armenian students is organizing a march from Los Angeles to Washington (5.000 kilometers). They started the march on June 27 and are accompanied by a bus with the words “Stop Genocide” on it. The union of Armenian American students wanted to organize such actions before …

During the parliamentary session dedicated to the issue of Hakob Hakobyan, NA deputy Manouk Gasparyan surprised deputies. The latter said that for such crimes, people usually are not taken to the national security services department and added that everything was ordered by the “higher authorities” and they wanted to take the deputy’s property from him. …

NA vice-speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan complained at the parliament that before starting their session they didn’t thank France for adopting a law that imposes punishment for denying the fact that that there has been an Armenian Genocide. Our correspondent asked the vice-speaker whether it wouldn’t be better to adopt that law first in Armenia before the …

It turned out that NA deputy Hakob Hakobyan was connected with crimes committed since 1991, in fact, the state has lost 271 million dram because of the financial mechanisms of the deputy. Nevertheless, the mentioned financial mechanism and crimes would not be revealed if the deputy were not connected with a group crime, which, as …