Politics

The president of France Nicolas Sarkozy has signed the order increasing the age of the right for pension from 60 to 62, and the age for a full state pension – from 65 to 67. This is the law because of which the people of France have been making a noise and organizing strikes and …

Yesterday in Yerevan the seminar on EU-Armenia Civil Society was wrapped up in Yerevan, which hosted representatives from various key international structures as well as different Armenian NGOs. During the seminar the both sides have mentioned various observation regarding the level of human right protection and independence of courts. At the end of the seminar …

According to the preliminary results of parliamentary elections of Azerbaijan taken place on Sunday the party led by the President of that country Ilham Aliyev – Yeni Azerbaijan, had a “succumbing” victory. This ruling party will receive 70 of the 125 seats of Mili Mejlis. Moreover, the majority of the elected MPs of Yeni Azerbaijan …

The Audit Chamber (AC), by examining the legality of exploitation of the largest Sodk goldmine belonging to Geoprom Mining LTD and the gold mine of Meghradzor of Kotayk, recently has offered the government to discuss the cancellation of the mining processing of the LTD. Geoprom Mining LTD is registered on Cayman Islands and the proprietor …

We Armenians get very encouraged when we see an Armenian last name in a foreign media outlet. Moreover, this encouragement doesn’t necessarily mean that the Armenian last name is mentioned in a negative or positive aspect. Even if we are dealing with a negative phenomenon we are interested. We are trying to justify that. We …

The Geopromining Gold company that explores and uses the gold mines of Sodk and Meghradzor has done a lot of legal violations. We were informed about these violations yesterday by the chairman of the RA controller commission Ishkhan Zakaryan. The Geopromining Gold LLC exploited the mines in legal violations of contracts too incurring losses of …

Yesterday the National Assembly’s Audit Chamber demanded the extraordinary measure following a detailed inspection of GPM Gold, the Armenian subsidiary of Russia’s GeoProMining group. The latter rejected the accusations and said it will take the chamber to court. GeoProMining purchased the company, which controls the gold mines at Sodk and Meghradzor and owns an ore …

There are rumors that the top authorities have decided to find solutions to release the political prisoners. For this purpose the government is going to send a package of amendments to the RA Criminal Code to the parliament to ease some punishments in the law. According to our information from the parliament, these amendments will …

“The unreasonable delays, obstacles, and in many cases the expectations of people to get something must disappear, and the sooner the better for all of us, first of all for the people who are employed by the customs office. The goal is the following: make all the customs passing points modern during the coming three-four …

Several days ago the Turkish National Security Council approved significant changes in a document which contains threats against Turkey claiming that Israel is now a major threat to the country, Turkish media reported. At the same time the Council decided to remove Syria, Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia from the list of countries that pose a …