Politics

According to experts, in 2005 the GDP level of CIS countries increased by 6%, and military expenses -21%. The total was $28,2 billion. Military expenses are almost three times more than the real growth of GDP. This tendency may go on in 2006 too. According to their preliminary information, the military expenses in CIS countries …

According to the lragir.am, after the former head of the president’s administration Artashes Tumanyan resigned, taxing officers often visit the companies “under his ownership”, which have some problems with taxes. According to the source, the taxing officers are keeping an eye on the “Mets Aniv” (Big Wheel) company, which is also “under Tumanyan’s ownership”.

The report states that the statistics of the Armenian ombudsman’s institution shows that most of the cases of human right violations concern the police, prosecutor’s office, ministry of justice, ministry of defense and other relevant bodies. Taking into account the numerous cases of illegal arrests, jailing, illegal judgments and other violations connected with political developments …

With the accompaniment of the string orchestra, balloons, red flags and the picture of the great proletariat Vladimir Lenin, party representatives started the march from the statue of Aram Khachatryan to the square near the Alexander Myasnikyan statue, where they held their May 1st gathering. The slogan for the meeting was “Down with America, Always …

“Years ago, back in 2000, the land defenders’ wing separated from the Armenian Republican Party and founded the “Republic” party, but our party didn’t lose anything from that. I am sure the party has its center, many dedicated members and that the party will stay true to its customs even by removing a sector,” said …

Recently, art critic Henrik Igityan was invited as a guest on “Kentron” TV network’s “Urvagits” program. During the show, Henrik Igityan talked about the opposition and said that people started stealing from the country during the term of the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and added that his brother stole almost half of Armenia. According to …

Pushkin street was closed yesterday in honor of the Jazz appreciation party organized by the U.S. Embassy, headed by John Evans, held at the well known “Malkhas” Jazz club. The party was part of the series of events of the fifth annual world Jazz festival. The RA president Robert Kocharyan, defense minister Serj Sargsyan and …

According to the press department of the Kremlin, RA president Robert Kocharyan and Russian president Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation yesterday. The mentioned announcement states that the presidents “discussed important issues concerning Russian-Armenian ties”. “Within the frameworks of exchanging their opinions the presidents also discussed issues concerning different formats”, as stated in the announcement …

The announcement made by citizen of Oshakan, Spartak Eghiazaryan, according to which he made electoral violations, made the opposition act get more active. Yesterday the parliamentary oppositional parties published two drafts in the parliament, the content of which was almost the same. The first draft proposes founding a parliamentary commission on investigating the cases of …

“Communities are the first instances to be in direct contact with people and know very well about their problems. It will be wrong not to develop these instances and not make it democratic enough”, said Robert Kocharyan at his meeting with the president’s committee on local government issues. The president said that local government will …