Artur Vanetsyan, recently appointed to head Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), isn’t the only one in his family who holds a government post.
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan has been appointed Armenia’s new Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
Tonoyan served as Deputy Defense Minister between 2010 and 2016.
Mirzoyan, a Yelk Faction MP, actively participated and coordinated recent anti-government protests in Armenia spearheaded by Nikol Pashinyan.
Souren Papikyan has been appointed Armenia’s new Minister of Territorial Administration and Development.
Arayik Harutyunyan has been appointed Armenia’s new Minister of Education and Science.
Tankian shared his impressions regarding recent events in Armenia with Pashinyan and wished success to the new government.
While the date as to when Armenia’s Court of Appeals will review the case of Jirayr Sefilyan, sentenced on March 20 of this year to ten years and five months on charges of preparing to foment public disorder, illegal arms possession, and conspiracy to seize government buildings, is not yet known, we do know that Judge Rouzanna Barseghyan will preside and will be assisted by judges Mkhitar Papoyan and Manoushak Petrosyan.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has appointed Tigran Avinyan deputy prime minister.
Judge Arshak Vardanyan today decided to keep eleven defendants in the Sasna Dzrer case in pre-trial detention.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Sochi on May 14 on the sidelines on the Eurasian Economic Union summit.
As for his other declared revenues and assets, Osipyan has declared US$1,500 in revenue from a $15,000 loan he made.
Residents say that if the price they are getting for their milk has dropped by 40%, the retail price for yogurt, milk and sour cream should drop by 40% as well, but it hasn’t.
On May 1, when the National Assembly voted to select Armenia’s next prime minister, Vardanyan stated that he would abstain from voting.
The prime minister said that Minister of Diaspora Affairs Hranoush Hakobyan would be replaced, but that the ministry would remain.
“It’s not that I don’t want to work in Nikol Pashinyan’s government, but rather that I have no desire to continue on as minister,” Martirosyan told reporters after today’s government cabinet session.
Poghosyan, who has served in the post since 2011, writes that he has always served the Republic of Armenia and will continue to do so.
After his first government cabinet session today, Pashinyan told reporters about his plans to dismiss the Commander of the Armenian Police Troops since 2012, Deputy Chief of Armenian Police Levon Yeranosyan.
Tonoyan, who had been serving as Acting Minister of Emergency Affairs, will replace Vigen Sargsyan who resigned on May 8.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Kvirikashvili by telephone today and the two agreed to meet at the earliest possible convenience.
The five-year project will be undertaken by the IDeA (Initiatives for Development of Armenia) charitable foundation run by Ruben Vardanyan at an estimated cost of AMD 15.682 billion (US$32.2 million).
Newly-elected Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan convened his first government cabinet session today.
Valery Osipyan, Armenia’s newly appointed police chief, told reporters today “that all are equal under the law in Armenia” and said he would resign today if anyone could prove that he’s ever abused his authority or used violence against anyone.
Garegin Chukaszyan, a member of Armenia’s opposition Pre-Parliament movement who had gone underground in July 2016 after being accused by law enforcement for organizing “mass disorder but was arrested on April 23 of this year after appearing in public, has entered his thirteenth day of a hunger strike.
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