Scores of people were on hand today in the central square of Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, to protest an Azerbaijani film festival called “Stop” scheduled to start tomorrow.
By initiating the event, the Naregatsi Art Institute seeks to convey that nobody’s personal circumstances should ever constitute an insurmountable barrier to inclusion and to the solidarity we owe to each other; and ensure thereby that we are unswerving in our efforts to defend the value of human diversity and our fight against exclusion based on any type of personal difference.
The Heritage Party condemns the physical assault on independent MP candidate Meruzhan Mkhoyan that took place on Friday, April 6. Running in the single-mandate constituency No. 21 in the Armavir region—and opposed in the race by Republican-backed Aleksan Petrosian—Mkhoyan withdrew his candidacy as a direct result of the assault.
A Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegation has arrived in Armenia to conduct a monitoring mission in the run-up to the May 6 parliamentary elections.
MP Samvel Aleksanyan, a businessman running for re-election to Armenia’s parliament, is urging voters to contribute to his campaign war chest.
What follows is a summary of some of the more interesting aspects of the campaign pledges being made by the ARF and the Republican Party of Armenia in this regard.
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