MP Ashot Arsenyan, representing Armenia’s Vayots Dzor Province, says he’s resigning from the Republican Party of Armenia because he believes that his membership in the party is hindering talks to resolve a standoff between environmental activists opposed to the Amulsar gold mine project and government officials.
A Yerevan court today released Sasna Dzrer defendant Ashot Petrosyan, now on trial for seizing a Yerevan police building in July 2016, from detention on AMD 500,000 bail.
A Yerevan court today released Vardges Gevorgyan, a defendant in the Sasna Dzrer case, from detention based on the personal guarantees that he would not flee prosecution provided by Tsarukyan Alliance MPs Gevorg Petrosyan and Vahe Enfiajyan.
If 700-800 tons of ore are transported daily to Yerevan, they should at least get an order for 40 tons (2 trucks).
Vazgen Galstyan, one of the activists blocking the roads to Amulsar for the past six days, told Hetq that he received a letter to this effect yesterday from the legal agency representing Lydian Armenia.
The ministry, in turn, reported that the equipment to be imported (LED stage lights, projectors and accessories) were for entertainment purposes and thus not eligible for a tax exemption.
Sasoun Khachatryan, the newly appointed head of Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS), told reporters today that new information regarding the anti-government protests of March 1, 2008, in which ten people died, would soon be posted on the SIS website.
Scores of members of the Armenian Deaf Society demonstrated outside the Government Building in Yerevan today demanding the resignation of its president, Grigor Grigoryan.
“If somebody gets arrested in Armenia today, then there are sufficient grounds for that,” Armenian Police Chief Osipyan told reporters today, referring to the arrest of Nazik Amiryan, wife of MP Manvel Grigoryan.
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