Politics

This “citadel” in the neighborhood of Yerevan children’s library named after Khnko Aper belongs to the former head of Armenian taxation board, former head of the president’s staff Artashes Tumanyan. This construction is located very close to the library and closes the only fire protection exit door of the library. The library staff has sent …

Head of the parliamentary Republican Party, Galust Sahakyan complains that the “parliamentary hour” program has become “a monologue”. He means Arthur Baghdasaryan, who uses this program to campaign his party. Recently parliamentarians complain that recently the speeches of “Rule of Law” deputies are cut and instead of empty halls they show clips from their archives …

After the announcement of the head of the parliamentary “People’s deputy” commission, Karen Karapetyan, saying that he doesn’t want to found a party, the most active members of that group who wanted to found a party, Vahram Baghdasaryan and Lyova Khachatryan have joined the “Union in favor of Armenia” party. As Mr. Khachatryan said, this …

On March 24 the U.S. Department of State gave training facilities worth $400000 to the Armenian police academy to train policemen. Regarding this, the U.S. deputy Ambassador, Anthony Godfree said, “The Police is a democratic institution that is in direct contact with people. That is why it is very important for Armenian policemen to be …

The RA president’s press secretary, Viktor Soghomonyan is surprised about the rumors in the Russian press that Armenia is going to buy cheap military weapons from Russia as reimbursement for the gas price increase. “We were surprised to read the publication of the Russian “Komersant” newspaper writing that Armenia will buy cheap weapons from Russia …

According to Paruyr Hairikyan, Armenian oligarchs are acting “rather foolishly’ by founding new political parties. “When the National Self-Determination Union (NSDU) existed and new parties were being found, that was a “foolish behavior” too. It’s the same thing now. There are a lot of parties, they can join one of them and work there. For …

Politicians are still discussing and trying to figure out what the reasons can be. Currently the president’s revision department is examining the activities of the “Lins” foundation. The state taxation committee is also examining the financial activities of Mr. Tumanyan. There are rumors that the National Security service is investigating his activities too. For your …

On October 16 during the elections for mayor in the city of Vanadzor, a lot of officials (RA prime minister Andranik Margaryan, Head of Lori Marz region Henrik Kochinyan, major-general Arshaluys Paytyan as well as former head of Lori regional national security head Artashes Harutyunyan, who is the relative of Artashes Tumanyan) voted for republican …

The total military budget of the 12 member CIS countries put together has gone up by 20%. Whereas last year the sum was 22.5 billion dollars, this year it will go up to 29 billion. Azerbaijan’s military budget exceeds the budgets of the other CIS countries. The budget will double and reach 600 million dollars. …

Yesterday during the elections of the Yerevan State University rector no one could get the necessary number of votes, which is 37. The elections lasted about eight hours and were divided in three stages, where the management council of the university consisting of 72 members couldn’t elect anyone. This means that elections will once again …