One week before the second round of presidential elections in Serbia, scheduled for May 20, 2012, one of the presidential candidates, Tomislav Nikolic, said that he needed to be president in order to tell journalists what to report on.
The Human Rights Defender of Armenia, Karen Andreasyan, issued a statement today in which he called on RA Police Chief Vladimir Kasparyan to jointly sit down and draft a specific set of guidelines for future peaceful public assembly.
“The country has possibilities. Our nature is good, the water, and the light and warmth given by God. What’s missing? We’re a people who like to work. They just have to create some incentives for us. I really don’t see the difficulty of governing this country,” Iskhan said.
Political analyst Arkady Ghukasyan told reporters today that Armenian citrizens could not freely express their political will and that “society is under the influence of an atmphere of fear.”
Residents of Davitashen village and nearby homes have penned an open letter to the press, complaining that they have gone without water for a week and that the utility Yerevan Water hasn’t done anything to fix the problem.
Hayk Babukhanyan had claimed that a August 8, 2010 article by Edik Andreasyan that appeared in report.am was slanderous.
Hayrikian stated that even if he were to become president, nothing would change, since power rests in the hands of the parliamentary majority; more specifically, the leader of that party.
The theft took place on May 3, after the woman had been invited to the home of Grandma Stella as a guest.
Two men were arrested yesterday afternoon after they attempted to steal 500 kilos of steel springs from a business in the village of Yeraskh.
I just returned from a fascinating trip to Egypt. The Primate of the Armenian Church had invited me on behalf of the Diocesan Council to deliver the keynote address at the annual commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. I accepted the invitation with some trepidation given the on-going turmoil in Egypt since the toppling of the 30-year despotic rule of Pres. Hosni Mubarak.
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