The Principal of Yerevan’s Public School 11 (named in honor of Monte Melkonian) has sued the news outlet “7or.am” for slander after it published an article alleging that she had demanded that teachers pay her $100 each.
Organized crime in Sweden has found a new way to work around regulations, and is raking in millions through tobacco tax fraud. According to the Helsingborg Dagblad newspaper (HD), between 2009 and 2011 12 cigarette import companies robbed the state of €64 million (US$81.3 million) in tobacco taxes. Tax fraud is increasingly replacing conventional cigarette smuggling.
Prosperous Armenia Party MP Nayira Zohrabyan summed up her faction’s stance regarding the government’s five year plan of action by saying that if the votes garnered by the opposition in the recent parliamentary elections are added together then it becomes clear that there can be no talk of the people having confidence regarding the program.
The ARF MP pointed out that five of the six factions in the new parliament had declared that the recent elections were flawed and that four had declared outright violations. Despite this, said Roustamyan, the government has noted the results in its program and based a government on the backs of the people.
Today, the RA Court of Appeals reviewed the petition of the Ijevan Road Construction Company which is seeking a greater award in compensatory damages from the Ijevan Studio TV station and reporter Nayira Khachikyan.
Gasparyan was holding up a sign calling MP Ruben Hayrapetyan a criminal (Harsnakar belongs to Hayrapetyan) when MP Samvel Aleksanyan showed up and tore the sign from his hands.
Manoukyan minced no words when presenting a number of demographic statistics on emigration and legislative initiatives that called into question certain pronouncements made by PM Sargsyan.
The HAK parliamentary leader said it is impossible to have faith in a government whose policies have led to an artificial appreciation of the AMD propped up by the Central Bank infusing $1 billion in reserves and the growth of the national debt.
I have petitioned a number of Armenian officials, including the president, general prosecutor, president of the parliament, the chief of police, and the UN office in Armenia, but have yet received any positive response.
In Karabakh in 1991, a foreign journalist asked Liberation Army Commander Leonid Azgaldyan, "What color are you? I mean, what political party do you belong to?" Leonid knelt down, scooped up a handful of earth and said, "Here, this is my color."
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