Society

Although nobody ever doubted that Alexan Harutyunyan would definitely be elected President of the PTRC Board for the next 6 years this completion would be incomparably more often publicized if here were other nominees. We were assuming that the opposition would nominate its candidate for this position but it didn’t happen. However, the opposition had …

Yesterday deputy chief of police, lieutenant-general, Hovanes Hunanyan told reporters that he had received a strict order from Armenia’s Chief of Police to immediately reveal the most boosting crimes of the year – in particular, STB head of department, Shahen Hovasapyan, former head of community of Malatia-Sebastia, Vahan Zatikyan’s son, Sedrak Zatikyan’s murder and a …

I just checked the definition of the word “oligarchia” and it was the exact definition that I remember from sociology class: “a system of government in which power is held by a small group”. The reason for checking the edymology of the word has nothing to do with the upcoming parliamentary elections, although it could …

The three former mayors of Yerevan were talking about the past of Armenia’s capital city and expressing their opinions about future development at the “Hayeli” club on Wednesday. Albert Bazeyan, Vahagn Khachatryan and Suren Abrahamyan were all of the opinion that the Yerevan municipality doesn’t work well, although it can. The three former mayors of …

The appeal of leader of the Popular Party and president of “ALM” Holding Tigran Karapetyan against stage director Armen Mazmanyan was supposed to be examined at the Kentron and Nork-Marash district first instance court on Wednesday. Tigran Karapetyan had sued Armen Mazmanyan for “offending and defaming him by spreading lies on television”. When talking about …

Former speaker of the National Assembly Arthur Baghdasaryan’s uncle Samson Baghdasaryan was released from prison on January 11. Let’s recall that Samson Baghdasaryan was head of the territorial organization of the Kanaker-Zeytun community; he was arrested and imprisoned last year in light of the well-known “Cadastre Case” when a group of people had dealt with …

Yesterday during a meeting organized by the RA public radio and TV commission Alexan Harutyunyan was elected in the position of the mentioned commission board chair.

The price of the dollar at exchange rate points has gone all the way down to 359. However, I won’t tire you with the formation of the exchange rate or the influence it has on exports. We’ll simply register that this year the dram is being evaluated much more quickly and has already approached the …

Hundreds of owners and employees of Armenian firms providing external phone connection over the Internet rallied in Yerevan Yesterday in protest against a government decision that upheld the national telecommunication operator’s monopoly on the popular service. The Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) ruled on January 8 that the ArmenTel operator can restrict or even block …

“While Armenians are smart sheep, Turks are jackals. Turks stay being Turk. Turks can’t change”, such poor estimations have been spoken by some Intelligentsia and political party representatives since Hrant Dink was slain. The most active one was the ARF. However, the further developments that happened in Turkey after that incident were unexpectedly different. Just …