MP Ruben Hayrapetyan declared yesterday evening that he is givinh up his seat in Armenia’s National Assembly out of a sense of “moral responsibility” he feels over the June 17 beating of military physicians at the Harsnakar Restaurant he owns on the outskirts of Yerevan.
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Albania’s newly appointed Ambassador to Armenia, Dashnor Dervishi presented his credentials to President Serzh Sargsyan today.
There are hundreds of apartments where there are no lights on after it gets dark. Their owners have long since moved away. Go to the old neighbourhoods in town, and you’ll walk down semi-deserted streets and alleyways, only to encounter a few families who are now renting the abandoned apartments.
The Political Science Association of Armenia proposes that Ruben Hayrapetyan, in accordance with the Article 67 of the RA Constitution and the Article 13 of the RA Law on “Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly”, resign his MP position on his own initiative, as well as put an end to his political activity.
Shirak Torosyan is an Armenian MP form the ruling Republican Party and President of the Javakhk Patriotic Union. Torosyan, who was born in Georgia, still cannot enter Georgia and calls this decision by Tbilisi authorities as incorrect and absurd.
For years I have heard nothing but complaints about the various clan leaders who enjoy immunity from prosecution and use their power positions in government to essentially do whatever they want, like terrorizing Armenian citizens and even having them killed as in the case of Tigran Avetyan. There is a video of Ruben Hayrapetyan on YouTube boasting about how he’s harassed and “punished” people, even some at gunpoint, so that he gets his...
An on-line petition has been launched urging the football governing bodies UEFA and FIFA to call for the removal of Ruben Hayrapetyan as president of Armenia’s Football Federation.
Garo Ghazarian, Esq. is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Armenian Bar Association, which boasts members throughout the United States, Canada, Armenia, Europe, South America, Asia and beyond.
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