Hovhannes Tamamyan, a high ranking RA Police official, was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment yesterday for covering up a murder in 2010.
In the opening session of the slander trial pitting the Word of Life religious organization against the newspaper Iravunk, the attorney for the group again maintained that the word “sect” was defamatory.
At a conference today entitled “Towards Free and Transparent Elections”, both men said the government has the will to conduct such elections and that the people of Armenia are finally ready to vote in such elections.
The newly appointed Ambassador of Ethiopia to Armenia, Kasahun Dender Melese, presented his credentials today to RA President Serzh Sargsyan.
The three parties that comprise the ruling coalition of Armenia – Republican, Prosperous Armenia, Rule of Law – seem to have jointly decided on campaign slogans in the run-up to the May 6 parliamentary elections.
The MP/businessman (he owns the Yerevan City supermarket chain) wanted to place a bet that he’d be the only contender for Election District #7 in the May parliamentary election.
Large diameter pipes laid under the Dzoraged-Marts section of the road, to service a hydro-electric station owned by Vanadzor Mayor Samvel Darbinyan, have led to large cracks in the road surface.