Politics

“168 Hours” has received more information about oligarch Artashes Tumanyan’s family businesses after our previous edition. We were informed that the “HyeTech” company belonging to his daughter’s husband, Gagik Yeranyan, is registered as an Armenian-American company too. G. Yeranyan also has a private dental clinic on Zakyan street. Besides the mines of Lori, A. Tumanyan …

The Bagratashen market was closed because of Georgia. Georgia has insisted on reconstructing it. This was announced by economy minister Vardan Khachatryan. According to him, Armenia is currently planning out the reconstruction of the market. At the same time the minister says that the Georgian party is not doing anything. Currently Armenia is negotiating with …

RA defense minister Serj Sargsyan does not want to announce which party he will join during the elections because he wants to be the candidate of the governmental parties. The minister neither agreed with this nor rejected it yesterday. “There are different kinds of predictions in our country and even I am sometimes surprised to …

Aghvan Hovsepyan decided to organize something better this year, instead of spending money on a senseless and poorly organized unity dance that only lasted 15 minutes. Besides that, with this he wants citizens to join them. Even more, he wants that because his dream to turn his “Nig-Aparan” nationalistic union into a political party didn’t …

The previous analysis-proposals by the IAG were not accepted by Armenian citizens. They were mainly considered as “proposals that don’t benefit Armenia”. There were even rumors flying around that the IAG is financed by the Turkish government. In the recent analysis-proposal, the IAG experts propose the following: “The Southern Caucasus conflicts endanger EU security.” The …

A couple of weeks ago, some newspaper editions published the Armenian section of the U.S. State Department’s annual report on the international strategies for the fight against drugs. In that report, it was stated that “Armenian high-deputy officials haven’t been caught for selling illegal drugs”. This caused some people to make different interpretations. According to …

We Armenians love Europe a lot. We like to consider our culture part of European culture. We like to dress and live the European lifestyle. I don’t know if any others besides Armenians call their newly remodeled houses “Euro remodeled” or not, but we also tend to call “landscapes” European. We also like European cars. …

It turns out that there is still time to do something about the Russian gas price increase. At least vice-speaker of the National Assembly Vahan Hovhannisyan has not lost all hope. During the Armenian-Russian parliamentary sessions, the Armenian MPs made some offensive remarks to their Russian colleagues and the Russians got the picture. Vahan Hovhannisyan …

– As of today, how many Armenians live in Russia? – Nearly two and a half million, of which 20% are straight from Armenia; the rest were either born in Russia, or have moved here from Abkhazia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. There are many Armenians from Javakhk and more than 300,000 refugees. ­- What about Moscow? …

Armenia’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to France Anri Kyunin believes that the meeting in Rambulle, France was set up through the efforts of the French government. According to him, although the negotiations didn’t solve anything, however they did give an opportunity for both presidents to realize that “the two sides are almost there.” Kyuni states …