Seventeen teachers and the principal of P.S.13, in the southern Armenian town of Kapan, have resigned from the Republican Party of Armenia since they agree with the position of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to depoliticize schools in Armenia.
All ten members of the council present at today’s special session approved the motion to strip MP Grigoryan, arrested on charges of illegal arms possession and embezzlement, of the award he received in 2003.
Armenian police yesterday raided the home of Manvel Grigoryan’s brother-in-law Petros Amiryan, who heads the Avan branch of the Yerkrapah Union of Volunteers (YUV), and found a variety of arms and ammunition.
Marina Ohanjanyan, Press Secretary of the Special Investigative Service, told Hetq that a friend of Manvel Grigoryan was arrested yesterday, also on a charge of illegal arms possession, but refused to identify the individual.
Tigran Abrahamyan, an adviser to Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan, writes that Azerbaijani military forces have stepped up engineering work along the Line of Contact during he past two months, adding that there’s been a notable increase in Azerbaijani military equipment deployment in certain areas.
Law enforcement officials today found large amounts of canned meat, cigarettes, bandages, bullets, personal grooming supplies and undergarments destined for soldiers in the Artsakh Defense Army at a house owned by Manvel Grigoryan in Artsakh.
Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrap Mnatsakanyan kicked off his working visit to Brussels on June 19 by meeting with Johannes Hahn, the European Commission’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations.
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