Politics

According to recent statistics, the population of Vanadzor has barely reached the 100 thousand mark. However, after the district elections which took place on October 16th, it was clear that there were 101 thousand people in Vanadzor of which 47 actually participated in the elections. That is why the media did not state the number …

Last week, Georgia and Russia were in tense relations. For starters, the Georgian parliament unanimously approved the decision of removing the Russian peacekeeping troops stationed in Abkhazia and South Osia which put their mission aside. Basically, the Georgian authorities took their first step towards removing the Russian “blue helmet soldiers” out of Georgia, or better …

“I am sure and believe that the relationship between Armenia and Turkey must be built on cooperation from person to person and from business to business”,- says Turkish businessman Akif Ishik. He was the only representative of Turkey during the regional conference of American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Armenia. We had a conversation with …

According to recent official information the number of the citizens of Vanadzor didn’t exceed 100.000. After the local government elections on October 16 it turned out that the number of voters reached 101.000 (i.e. only adult citizens), only 47.000 of which participated in the elections. That is why the local Mass Media didn’t publish any …

They monitored the elections in a lot of communities of Yerevan and in several cities and villages of Armavir, Lori, Tavush regions of Armenia. Yesterday the members of the delagation organized an interview with the purpose to inform about the results of their observation. According to these observers the ”local government elections corresponded to European …

Recently, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and colonel-general Rashid Nurgaliev visited Armenia and during that time something unusual happened. According to our well-informed sources, the head of RA police department Haik Harutiunyan and the head of organized crime board Ashot Grigoryan wanted to give their respected guest a lioness as a present. …

As we were informed by the news centre of “People’s MP” group at the National Assembly, the group nominated its own candidates for the upcoming local government elections in October. During the elections of last week their 35 candidates for local government head positions won the elections in four regions of Armenia: Ararat, Syunik, Vayots …

These “Jeep” and “Mercedes-Benz” model cars belong to the deputy head of the RA police department of Erebuni and Noubarashen communities, Major Mher Avagyan. His cars were in our interest because both of them have the same number: “05oo500”. This is prohibited by RA legislation. According to Article 123 of the RA code about administrative …

The documents for property and income of the five candidates for mayor of Gyumri have been presented to the election committee of the polls. Those documents are pretty interesting. It is required by law to state the income in the name of the candidate concerned. It turns out that the richest of the candidates is …

Welfare recipient creditors will get $200 USD against to 1.000 soviet rubles. They will get 200 USD + 70 % against 1.000-3.000 rubles, 200 USD + 40 % – against 3.000-5.000 rubles, 200 USD + 20 % – against 5.000-10.000 rubles and 200 USD + 10 % against more than 10.000 rubles. This distribution was …