Politics

Secretary of the “National Unity” NA faction Alexan Karapetyan didn’t come to yesterday’s NA briefing alone. He was with resident of the Oshakan village Spartak Yeghiazaryan. Spartak has been head of the electoral commissions at the 04/30 and 14/32 polls during the 2003 parliamentary and presidential elections, as well as during the 2005 constitutional amendments …

One of those issues is Armenia’s energetic security, in particular the sale of the 5th energy block of the Hrazdan electricity station to Russia in order to decrease the gas price. The authorities considered the transaction as the sale of the century, while the opposition considers it betrayal, selling the remainder of the state’s property …

Throughout history or in social life, the value of the work done by leaders of countries doesn’t always correspond to the reality of it all. The leader of a country always remains anonymous as he keeps trying to show his good sides and do good deeds (at least in this time period of history). It …

According to the Armenian-Russian interstate contract, it is expected to start a 4 million dollar construction project in Gyumri. The funding will help reconstruct Russian churches, the former building of the Pedagogical Institute in Gyumri, as well as some half-constructed buildings in the 8th Military Neighborhood. The first stage of the project (planning the project …

John Danilovich, American congressman and head of the “Millennium Challenges” corporation, says that his visit to Armenia was a success for him and his delegation. “We wouldn’t start implementing the “Millennium challenges” program if we were not sure that the Armenian Government and society wanted to have fair and democratic elections. But only election days …

“If we behaved ourselves like they did we would start criticizing each other, which could be very bad for us. Because everyone would criticize along with us as soon as we started doing that”, said Andranik Margaryan yesterday concerning the criticisms of some MPs representing the “Rule of Law” during the discussions of the “Governmental …

Yesterday head of the RA customs state committee, Armen Avetisyan, met with the RA president to report on their activities during this year. According to A. Avetisyan they have collected more than 400 million than they had planned (31.100 million dram). When discussing issues regarding contraband and other violations they also discussed the arrangements of …

Yesterday during the discussions of the Euro Council, Bulgarian MP Alexandr Arbajiev made a speech on human rights and protection of human rights to army soldiers of EU member countries. “5000 soldiers died in the Azerbaijani army because of famine”, states the report about Azerbaijan. In regard to this member of the Azerbaijani delegation in …

MP Emma Khudabeshyan asked the RA defense minister, Serj Sargsyan, whether he had his part in the agreement on giving the fifth electric bloc of Hrazdan to Russia, to which Serj Sargsyan answered, “I have my part in all good things that happen in Armenia”. According to Serj Sargsyan there is nothing bad about that …

In response to the question, “what kind of lessons have the authorities learned from the night of April 13?” Andranik Margaryan said, “It’s not going on anymore, right?” It turns out that the first one to take lessons from those incidents is the opposition.