Politics

One of the lawyers representing the family of the assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, former chief editor of Akos newspaper, was found dead in his home in Istanbul in unclear circumstances. Hakan Karadag, 40 years old was found hung by his lover, who’d applied to the police. According to CNNTurk during the last trial, Hakan …

Yesterday a standing committee on Education and Science of the Armenian parliament with a proportion of 4 “yea” and 3 “nay” votes approved a watered-down version of a controversial government bill that would allow the existence of schools where the main language of instruction is not Armenian. The bill had been strongly criticized by various …

Yesterday in Armenia the graduation and admission joint examinations were launched, which will end on June 23. Yesterday the applicants took exams for biology, geography, general history. As during all the years this year as way the government was pledging that everything was going to proceed very objectively because the tests had been printed in …

Yesterday Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged the Armenian authorities to bring the country’s draft broadcast law in line with OSCE and international standards before it is adopted. The co-operation agreement includes work to strengthen legal frameworks and practice, and to support sustainable socio-economic development. "If adopted in its present …

Yesterday Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged the Armenian authorities to bring the country’s draft broadcast law in line with OSCE and international standards before it is adopted. The co-operation agreement includes work to strengthen legal frameworks and practice, and to support sustainable socio-economic development. "If adopted in its present …

Yesterday our police once again reminded of its existence. The police has used force against a former political prisoner Vardges Gaspari, who’s been doing a sit-in strike in the Liberty Square for the past three days and against ANC activists, who were at the square at that time. Minutes later the policemen "removed" ANC activist …

Yesterday in the Liberty Square of the capital city about 30 supporters of the Armenian National Congress were again out for “political walk.” These were mostly young people. However, at about 6p.m. the police surrounded the square and afterwards a dozen of “lawmakers” assaulted the young people gathered in the square. They were shouting and …

Although these were not national elections but taking into account that almost half of the country’s population is concentrated in the capital city the ruling Republican Party did its best to provide its victory in this race. During the local government elections of the past year the RPA also did its best to have victory. …

Armenia hasn’t yet “digested” reso0lution 2216 recently adopted by the PACE and the predicted negative consequences. However last week it became known that the PACE is going to discuss another extremely unfavorable resolution for us. I mean resolution 1416, which anticipates the creation of a sub-commission in charge of the NKR conflict resolution within the …

President Serzh Sargsyan has issued an order to dismiss Haik Harutyunyan from the position of the state protections service chief. With another order Haik Harutyunyan was appointed head of the RA plenipotentiary institutions. This position was free since Ashot Giziryan was appointed governor of Shirak region last week. The sources of information from the government …