Gagik Tsarukyan decided that he would not participate in the 2013 presidential election, at least formally. Based on his decision, the Prosperous Armenia Party announced that it would not support any candidate in the elections.
Serbian police Wednesday arrested ten prominent businessmen, including Serbia's wealthiest tycoon Miroslav Mišković, on charges of fraud and abuse of office. The men are suspected of pocketing around $39 million in the process of privatizing highway companies in Serbia in 2005.
In a bombshell announcement, Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan said he would not run for the presidency of Armenia in next February’s election.
Republican Party MP Artak Davtyan is an unassuming politician who heads the parliament’s Standing Committee on Education, Science, Youth Affairs and Sports.
Samuel Karapetyan, the oft-outspoken president of the Research on Armenian Architecture NGO, has lambasted Armenians for being out of synch with the natural world of the Armenian Highlands.
Right now, there are six members on the committee – three from the opposition and one each from the Republican Party, Prosperous Armenian Party and the Country of Law Party. ANC MP Nikol Pashinyan heads the committee.
If it were possible to clone prominent Turkish commentator Orhan Kemal Cengiz and make multiple copies of his kind heart and righteous conscience, the Turkish government would then be able to come to grips with Armenian demands from Turkey in a humane and just manner.