Politics

According to “Azatutyun” news agency, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs “feared and doubted” the bill passed by the French Senate about the penalty for denying the Armenian Genocide. “Unfortunately, instead of contributing for peace and stability, Armenia and the Diaspora still don’t play a constructive role in the midst of the current situation at …

Turkish, Azeri and French governments, the European Commission, the vice-president of the European Parliament, the editor of “Akos” paper and others have criticized the French Senate for approving the bill for penalizing anyone in France who denies the Armenian Genocide with a 1 year sentencing and a 45,000 Euro fee. They claim that by doing …

A couple of days ago, Armenian delegates and the people of Armenia reched a victory from the moral point: the French parliament approved the bill penalizing anyone in France who denies the Armenian Genocide with 106 for and 19 against votes. In fact, the exception of making a change in the bill and not making …

The RA general prosecutor, Aghvan Hovsepyan, has applied to the government to recommend the NA speaker to hold additional hearings, where the general prosecutor is going to recommend ceasing the personal immunity right of NA deputy Hakob Hakobyan and institute legal proceedings. The 72-hour arrest ended on October 11 and the MP was released.

Galust Sahakyan, member of “Armenian Republican Party” board says that one of the facts that show that some powers are doing black PR against their party is the rumors that there are conflicts between the Republican party and “Prosperous Armenia” party. Nevertheless, the latter assures that there is no conflict of interests between the two …

NA deputies are invited to take part in a special parliamentary session, where RA general prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan is going to make a speech, after which MPs will vote for ceasing the personal immunity right of deputy Hakob Hakobyan, who has just recently become a member of “Republican Party of Armenia”. If any of the …

This week there were two extraordinary events in Armenia. First, former mayor of Yerevan and former head of the RA police general Suren Abrahamyan was attacked; second, NA deputy Hakob Hakobyan was arrested and accused of an armed attack. These two facts don’t seem to be connected with each other; however, there is a coincidence: …

The “Nig-Aparan” patriotic union held a board session, during which it was decided that the union was going to vote for Ruben Hovsepyan during the Ajapnyak community head elections to be held on October 29. Ruben Hovsepyan is the brother of Honorable President of the “Nig-Aparan” patriotic union and Chief Prosecutor of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan. …

Republican MP Armen Ashotyan considers the newly founded “Alternative” NGO as a “very interesting project”. According to him, the NGO’s liberalism ideology works in Armenia and across the globe. “If not during these elections, then perhaps 5 or 10 years later, there will be more and more liberal Armenians due to globalization, the easy access …

According to the information on the Armenian police website, legal proceedings for the beating of member of the “Republic” political party board member, former mayor of Yerevan and former minister of internal affairs Suren Abrahamyan are still underway. The police are asking citizens who may have been witnesses of the beating and can identify the …