With the opposition rally over, large crowds have started the march down Mashtots Avenue. Police have cordoned off one section of the street for the marchers.
Today's opposition rally was officially declared open by HAK representative Ararat Zurabyan who told the crowd that the government had tried to sabotage the event by cutting off electricity to the site at the Matenadaran. He said that was the reason why ...
At this moment HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan has reached today’s public rally site at the Matenadaran Manuscript Depository accompabied by Stepan Demirchyan, Alexander Arzumanian, Petros Makyan, Smbat Ayvazyan and Gagik Jahangiryan.
Heritage Party Deputy Zaruhi Postanjyan regrets that she wasn't able to broach the environmental issues of Lake Sevan and the Teghut Forest at the recent PACE June session. "As an individual member of the Armenian delegation I have the right to address ...
It appears that Davit Hakobyan, President of Armenia's Marxist Party, is grooming himself as an independent candidate in the nest presidential election. We asked the presidential hopeful how he planned to raise the $50,000 needed to run a credible campaign ...
At this moment, Judge Edik Avetisyan is reviewing the motion of Vahagn Harutyunyan, who heads the Special Investigative Service and Inspector Vaghinak Mkrtchyan, requesting that “Haykakan Zhamanak” Chief Editor Nikol Pashinyan be given pre-trail detention. The hearing is taking place at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court.
Late word from the Nikol Pashinyan court hearing to decide whether the “Haykakan Zhamanak” editor would be served with pre-trial detention has been postponed at the request of his lawyers.
One of the six issues taken up by the RoA Control Chamber on June 30 dealt with the cultural sector, more specifically with monitoring of state funds and property allocated to the Ministry of Culture during fiscal year 2007-2008. The Control Chamber audits ...
In the ongoing flap regarding Armenian teachers from Georgia not being permitted to travel to Armenia for retraining seminars, the RoA Ministry of Education and Science has sent an official dispatch to the Georgian Ministry Of Education. Most of the teachers ...
The opposition political alliance HAK has called for a public rally today in Yerevan and, true to form, public inter-city transport from outlying communities to the capital has been severely cut. There is no minivan or bus service from Etchmiadzin, Ashtarak, ...