Politics

We asked Andranik Margaryan whether the pistol which Hovik Hoveyan used to attack the electricians had been given by him and he answered: “No, I was lucky this time. This pistol was given to the minister by the police”.

We asked ARF group leader Levon Mkrtchyan whether there was a risk of pressure by countries where there are a lot of Armenians after the adoption of the law on dual citizenship and he said: ”I don’t think so, because they have the same leverages now too”. According to him the institution of citizenship is …

The RA public prosecutor’s office instituted legal proceedings yesterday in regard to the violations during the referendum and sent the criminal case to the first instance court. The public prosecutor’s office brought up cases against citizens who voted instead of other people. The public prosecutor’s office was informed about such cases of illegal voting in …

Recently, there are still rumors going around that Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan is going to resign due to health problems. During his conversation with our journalist, Mr. Margaryan assured that his health is in a favorable state and there is no reason to resign. In response to the question as to who is benefiting from …

In the past year, the main event in politics was the constitutional amendments referendum. One of the discussions being led was taking out the ban put on dual citizenship in the former Constitution. There is no longer a ban on dual citizenship and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), which is a member of the coalition, …

President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan forbid General Prosecutor of the RA Aghvan Hovsepyan to turn his “Nig-Aparan” patriotic union into a political party and didn’t allow leader of the presidential staff Artashes Tumanyan to found a political party. This was the information provided by the “Lragir” electronic newspaper edition. “The only thing …

According to sources, a couple of days ago an anonymous group of people beat former community head of the Kanaker-Zeytun community Ruben Minoyan. However, according to our sources, he didn’t call the police. We tried to get information from Ruben Minoyan himself. “Stop listening to all the silly rumors, please,” he said in response to …

– How can you explain the policy of raising the gas price on the part of Russia? Does Armenia have sufficient resources not to let it happen? Do you think the Ukrainian scenario would repeat in Armenia? – In December we had an agreement with “Gasprom”, according to which the gas price will stay the …

We asked the RA Prime minister Andranik Margaryan whether he thought that the estimations of the president and their estimations could differ after publishing the statements of the ministers, to which he answered: “I don’t think so, because we have followed and controlled their work during the whole year. We have held discussions and made …

These days one of the most discussed issues is the issue of the ombudsman’s position. While Larisa Alaverdyan hopes to be nominated by the oppositional power for this position in spring and will be able to get her office and car back, the authorities have already decided who the next ombudsman is going to be. …