Politics

On January 14 the frontier guards of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested two Armenians at the Tbilisi airport. According to them, these two people were trying to fly to Vienna by presenting false identification documents. These two citizens of Armenia were arrested during the registration process at the Tbilisi-Vienna flight passport control desk. …

Recently we received a letter from Armenak Mnjoyan, who had been forced into life imprisonment in connection with the case called “Dro”. In his letter sent to the president as of November 8, 2005 he doesn’t want amnesty, complaining that only criminals are a subject to amnesty and he is not a criminal. But according …

– Recently Armenia has become very active in the internal political fielde. New parties are established which intend to have a majority in the RA National Assembly after the parliamentary elections. What do you have to say about this? – The current activeness of the political field is more exaggerated. The sooner we get to …

The “Dashink” party headed by Samvel Babayan denied the rumors that NA deputy Hamyak Hovhannisyan is a member of the party during yesterday’s press conference. “Hamyak Hovhannisyan has not applied to any of the branches of the party for membership. Therefore, his announcements and opinions cannot be considered on behalf of the “Dashink” party. It …

“2006 will be a favorable year for the resumption and development of the process of regulating the Karabagh conflict. This is mainly stipulated by the inner political conditions of the belligerent parties. I think certain steps will be undertaken and the process will show the ultimate results of negotiations”, said the Minister of Defense of …

The next court session of the second criminal case of Azeri military servant, Ramil Safarov, who has been accused of killing Armenian military officer Gurgen Margaryan, will take place on February 21st . The Azeri officer is accused of resisting the guards of the isolation cell in 2004 and may be sentenced to a two …

On Saturday when a group of republicans headed by Andranik Margaryan were having “Xash”(Armenian national dish of boiled tripe and cow trotters) in Nor Dzoraberd Resataurant, an incident took place: there was a serious conflict between the regional head of Syunik Marz Surik Khachatryan (Liska) and republican MP Manvel Ghazaryan (Vedi Alco). During our phone …

According to our sources, the RA president Robert Kocharyan has fired the head of the juridical acts mandatory fulfillment department of the RA justice ministry Anatoli Avagyan. It is said that the president is going to appoint one of the 6th board top officials in this position. With the purpose of finding out more about …

According to the British “Economist” newspaper, the EU may stop negotiations for letting Turkey join the union if famous writer Orhan Pamuk is sentenced for hurting the self-esteem of Turkish people. The judicial process had to take place on December 16 in Istanbul, but it was postponed until February 7, 2006.

Yesterday during the calculation of the votes for the Yerevan State University scientific union head’s position, where the only candidate was Radik Martirosyan, it turned out that there were more “no” votes than “yes” votes. So, as a result of this he wasn’t elected and they are going to organize new elections.