“Please help us in doing our work. We are your brothers, not outsiders,” entreated Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan in his sales pitch to the gather members of the press.
He only had three beehives when he started and now tends 130. During the past few years Edward has begun to domesticate wild bee populations by bringing them home, as it were.
Republican Party MP Vrezh Markosyan, who owns the Tigran Metz printing house, verified to Hetq that Dunya is his sister and that she lives in Germany. As to who was her guest recently, he said he didn’t know.
Dzoragyugh Production Cooperative, owned by Ashot Sukiasyan, $9,370,450 of the loans issued by AmeriaBank were transferred to the accounts of several offshore companies held at the Hellenic Bank Publik Company of Cyprus.
WLISPERA HOLDINGS LIMITED, an offshore company registered in Cyprus,reveals how elements of Armenia’s powerful state, church and business sectors have been able to operate in tandem in the pursuit of their own economic interests.
HAK proxy Mikayel Kirakosyan has prepared a notice regarding two groups of young people milling about outside the 7/29 and 7/30 polling stations in Malatya-Sebastia.
Transparency International monitor Babken Ter-Grigoryan has informed Hetq that the back-up in the 7/15 polling station is due to the fact that residents of area old-age homes are being bused in to vote.
The police are still conducting an investigation of the incident and it is not clear whether criminal charges will be brought against the perpetrators.
Vardan Setrakyan, a candidate who ran in the February 18 presidential election in Armenia, has just been arrested on suspicion of ordering the January 31 shooting of Paryur Hayrikian.
“Pettiness and evil are things in all of us. But here, in this holy place, we have overcome that fear,” Hovannisian declared.
Artashat, polling station 17/2, school #2, 1:10 a.m.: OSCE/ODIHR observers Aaron Johanson and Eckhart Rodhen come inside. Five and a halfhoursprior I met them in the neighboring 17/5 polling station. Observers Artak and Narine were alarmed bythe ballot stuffing there, but the OSCE/ODIHR observers told them they wouldprobably not be there forthe ballot counting. So I was very happy to know that Johanson and Rodhen would be present.
The company is proposing that Gohar work one hour a day instead of eight for a five day work week. Kopyan told her the new terms were a result of internal financial and employment restructuring.
“Later, Artshininvest refused to loan us the money at $15. The bank said they wanted to loan us $2.8 million at 17%. I had to accept in order to pull the company out of bankruptcy,” says Karapetyan.
State Revenue Committee (SRC) President Gagik Khachatryan rejected Sergey’s request to employ the actual purchase price. Artour Afrikyan, Khachatryan’s first deputy, replied that what was missing from the documentation were the expenses to unload the car at the Georgian port of Poti and to get it to the Armenian customs office at the border.
“I entered into an agreement with Nunufar Hovhannisyan to find me a plot of land on which to build a house. I gave her my power of attorney to conduct whatever transactions were necessary. In total, I handed over $539,000 to her in bank deposits and cash. Nunufar doesn’t deny the amount,” Caroline says.
Armen relates that he and two others infiltrated an enemy position as pay back for last month’s raid on the village of Chinar. They were instructed to indirectly inflict damage within the enemy’s ranks.
On February 12 of this year, the day of a mayoral election in the town of Hrazdan, the civic group “We Will Not be Silenced” circulated a statement and video clip.
Judge Mkhitar Papoyan stated that the prosecution had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Ohanyan had pilfered, for personal gain, 574,420 litres of gasoline destined to be used by the police.
The RA Special Investigations Service (SIS) looked into the Hetq allegations and then launched a criminal case regarding the theft of the money that had been confiscated from some Italian citizens who had been involved in a fraud scheme in Armenia.
When this Hetq reporter entered to speak to the party proxies, Margaryan approached some of the women proxies and said, “Look here girls, all is normal here”.
“They are bringing people in groups and telling them who to vote for. Naturally the organizers are instructing people to vote for the ruling Republican Party,” said Karapetyan.
“Hey, do you think I’m that stupid to do something like that right in school, and with a mentally challenged kid?” Ghukasyan said, adding that the charges are absurd.
At this time, Judge Mkhitar Papoyan is deliberating whether to release former Chief of Traffic Police Margar Ohanyan before his upcoming trial.
After returning home she played the CD. To her amazement it contained the video-recording of a Skype conversation between Tatyana, the former wife of her dead brother, and a person called Artur.
In the 1990s, Khaloyan left for Latvia and returned to Armenia in 2003. He can’t find his family and doesn’t know if his wife and two daughters are waiting for him...somewhere.
Readers will recall that Davit Ziroyan’s two wives, Mariam and Monica, both charged him and his family with cruel and abusive treatment while they lived in Russia.
Hambardzumyan said that she had read a number of things in the press about the Syunik Governor, including the fact that he hit a child in his office.
Here, we will present readers with the story about Monica, Davit’s first wife. Monica married Davit in 2005 and returned to Armenia three years later,a woman broken both physically and psychologically.
Mariam showed us the cuts on her shoulder where her husband and mother-in-law stabbed her with a fork. They also used a hot iron on her hands and waist.
Hambardzoumyan’s lawyer, Karen Tounyan, describes the actions of Minister Movsisyan regarding the judicial sytem in the following manner – I’ll stand atop Masis and spit on your forehead.
MP Hayrapetyan had verbally abused the reporter during a phone interview, calling his “stupid”.
The trial of the two men charges with the burglary, 25 year-old Vahram Kerobyan and 29 year-old Stepan Hovakimyan, is still dragging on in the courts today.
“And what do I find – a worm. I was surprised to say the least. How does a worm turn up in the milk,” Gayaneh rhetorically asks.
Come next January, 36 year-old Vahram Antonyan will have served two years behind bars after having been found guilty of selling drugs.
Four years ago, the Ministry of Culture hired Aramayis Grigoryan to carry out renovations and repairs at the Gevorg Marzpetuni fortress and church located in the village of Ourtsadzor in Ararat Marz.
Residents on a stretch of Komitas Avenue in Yerevan are up in arms about the looming health risks posed by the construction of a tramway/trolleybus high voltage substation in their backyard.
Mariam Gishyan, a mother of five living in Armenia, has asked the Turkish government to grant her refugee status.
Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan, elected to the position a few months ago, has stated that the no new construction in the city will be permitted at the expense of the capital's dwindling green spaces.
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian today declared that it was unlikely that he would run for the presidency of Armenia in 2013.
Two Armenians arrested by Georgian authorities in a sting operation in March, 2010, for smuggling highly enriched uranium into the country, have been sentenced by a Tbilisi court. Businessman Smbat Tonoyan and physician Hrant Ohanyan were sentenced to 13 and 14 years respectively.
Singer song writers Ruben Hakhverdyan and Davit Amalyan today referred to the recent controversy surrounding the Tashir 2011 music awards and the infiltration of show business into the daily lives of Armenians.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan is guilty of flip-floping, says Karapetyan At a press conference held earlier today, the leader of the People’s Party, Tigran Karapetyan made sweeping attacks against the government as well as the opposition-based HAK (Armenian ...
Karapetyan said that the HAK was constantly changing its strategy, first calling for regime change and recently, laying down conditions for negotiations with the government. He argued that unnamed outside forces were probably behind the push for such negotiations between HAK and the regime.
Tigran Karapetyan, who heads the People’s Party in Armenia, stated today that the party would be organizing a public rally in Gyumri in the near future as well as a convention of war veterans.
At around 7pm, Yerevan time, thousands of citizens who had attended the HAK (ANC) rally at the Matenadaran were told that today was the day when Opera Square would be finally “taken back” by the people. The Square has been off-limits to any opposition event or rally since the bloody police assault on peaceful demonstrators of March 1, 2008.
The legal suit launched by the Ecological Security and Defense NGO against the RA Ministry of Nature Protection started today in Administrative Court.
The business activities of Hratch Gabrielian, a U.S. citizen who owns a 44% of Artsakh Bank and is president of the Ararat football club, have appeared on the radar screen of RA law enforcement.
Commenting on a prediction made by Armenian sociologist/pollster Aharon Adibekyan that the People’s Party has a good chance of winning a few seats during the 2012 parliamentary elections, party president Tigran Karapetyan took the pollster to task for always making predictions in line with the government.
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