164 candidates will contest single seat mandates, and 136 will run on a proportional basis.
Topping the list is former defense minister Seyran Ohanian, followed by Armen Martirosyan (Heritage Party) and former foreign minister Vardan Oskanian (Unity).
Considering the importance of the work that the OSCE Office in Yerevan does, we want to emphasize that its closure will hinder the process of building democratic institutions in the country. The Office is much needed in Armenia.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has decided to drop a criminal investigation into the purchase a private house in Los Angeles for $11 million by the sons of Gagik Khachatryan, a former finance minister and chief of the State Revenue Committee.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan tops the list of twenty, followed by Stepan Demirchian in second place and Levon Zurabyan in third place.
Armenia’s government plans to allocate 5 million AMD (US$10,280) to organize an event in New York on March 16 celebrating the 25th anniversary of Armenia becoming a member of the United Nations.
Armineh Arakelian, a founder of the Human Rights and Democracy Institute NGO, says that shots rang out yesterday as she entered the yard to her house in the Moughni neighborhood of Ashtarak.
The next election for Yerevan’s Council of Elders (municipal council) will be held on May 14.
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