Saturday, 25 May
Politics

News PACE Standing Committee to Meet in Yerevan on May 31

17:33 | May 24, 2013
The themes on the agenda include promoting alternatives to imprisonment, parental leave as a way to foster gender equality, and budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for the biennium 2014-2015.

News U.S. Ambassador Heffern: "President Obama uses words that will assist Armenian-Turkish reconciliation"

15:03 | May 24, 2013
When asked by reporters why President Obama didn’t use the word “genocide” in his April 24th speech, U.S. Ambassador John Heffern stated that the U.S. leader used words that would “assist the reconciliation process” between Armenia and Turkey.

News EuFoA Calls for Common EU-Armenia Efforts to Stop Gas Wastage

14:20 | May 24, 2013
The announcement of sharply increased gas prices for Armenia have sparked many questions about social and geo-political consequences. Discussions on the exact extent, the timing and the handling of the price increase are still on-going and will hopefully lead to a feasible solution. Meanwhile, it is worth looking at the large potential for helping Armenian citizens based on similar experiences made in other European countries. In this context, EuFoA (www.eufoa.org) calls upon the Armenian government and the EU to redouble their common efforts to reduce avoidable gas consumption and waste in Armenia in mainly two areas:

News Reporters Without Borders Condemns Sentencing of Sevan Nişanyan

11:28 | May 24, 2013
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the sentence of 13 and a half months in prison that an Istanbul magistrate’s court passed yesterday on Turkish-Armenian journalist Sevan Nişanyan for posting “insulting” comments about Mohammed in his blog.

News 76 to 41: Parliament Passes Government Programme

12:56 | May 23, 2013
By a vote of 76 to 41, the RA National Assembly minutes ago approved the government’s “program” for the next five years.

News Prosperous Armenia Rejects Government's Proposed Future Program

12:37 | May 23, 2013
Speaking on behalf of the Prosperous Armenia Party, MP Stepan Margaryan today stated in parliament that his party could not support the government’s plan for the next five years.

Articles Baffling Wealth: How Did Marzpet Khachatryan Boost Revenues from 3 Million to 7 Billion?

23:30 | May 22, 2013
Syunik Provincial Governor (Marzpet) Sourik Khachatryan is a classic example of how one becomes a billionaire overnight in Armenia.

News ARF MP to Ministers: "The people would beat you up in the streets"

16:15 | May 22, 2013
ARF MP Vahan Hovhannisyan labelled the recent attempts by the government to defend its platform for the next five years as a “circus performance”.

News MP Abrahamyan: “It’s very alarming when immoral individuals insult those who are moral"

12:59 | May 22, 2013
At today’s parliamentary session Republican Party MP Vahram Baghdasaryan called on Speaker Abrahamyan to “call to order” those legislators using insulting language.

News RA Family Code Bill Voted Down

12:22 | May 22, 2013
A Heritage Party bill including changes and amendments to the RA Family Code was voted down today by 66 votes to 41. There was one abstention.

Opinion House Resolution Goes Beyond Genocide Recognition Seeking Truth and Justice

00:03 | May 22, 2013
In a welcome move, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that advocates a new approach for the pursuit of Armenian rights in Congress, going beyond genocide recognition.

News New Cuban Ambassador to Armenia

14:34 | May 21, 2013
Emilio Lozada Garcia, Cuba’s newly appointed Ambassador to Armenia, presented his credentials today to RA President Serzh Sargsyan.

News Transparency International: Government's Pledges to Battle Corruption are Ridiculous

11:20 | May 17, 2013
The Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center issued a statement ridiculing the Armenian government’s lofty pledges that it is committed to systematic reform and stamping out official corruption.

Opinion White House Files Politically-Motivated, Anti-Armenian Brief to US Supreme Court

10:20 | May 15, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Obama Administration last October if it should review a Federal Appeals Court decision that had struck down a California law (Section 354.4) extending the statute of limitations on Armenian Genocide-era life insurance claims.

News Italian Trial Looks At Mafia-State Pact

22:53 | May 14, 2013
A much anticipated trial in Italy is set to begin in Palermo on May 27 where prosecutors will charge that high level Italian government officials made a pact with Sicilian Mafia bosses.

News Diasporan Monitors Remain Positive Despite Widespread Election Irregularities

16:02 | May 14, 2013
As reports of irregularitiesduring the Yerevan Municipal election continue to make headlines in the media, members of a joint local-Diaspora monitoring team, which exceeded 100 people, are neverthelessoptimistic about the level of engagement and partnership between local organizations and Diaspora resources.

News Hungary: Government May Restrict Access To Information

14:52 | May 13, 2013
The Hungarian Parliament adopted a controversial amendment to its Freedom of Information Act on April 30, a move that will make civilian and journalistic access to information more difficult, Atlatszo.hu reported. The amendment was passed less than 48 hours after its introduction.

News The Armenian Hero Turkey Would Prefer to Forget

12:23 | May 13, 2013
Think Captain Terossian. Confronted by the chilling hundredth anniversary of the genocide of one and a half million Armenian men, women and children at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915, Turkey’s government is planning to swamp memories of the Armenian massacres with ceremonies commemorating the Turkish victory over the Allies at the battle of Gallipoli in the same year.

News Belarus Prez to Arrive in Armenia

20:45 | May 12, 2013
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is arriving in Armenia today for an official visit at the invitation of President Serzh Sargsyan

News OSCE Final Report on Presidential Election: “More can be done”

13:35 | May 10, 2013
The final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the 18 February 2013 presidential election in Armenia concludes that though the elections were generally well-administered and characterized by a respect for fundamental freedoms, more can be done to increase public trust in the integrity of the electoral process.

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