Hetq spoke with cultural critic Hrach Bayadyan about what changes, if any, occurred in Armenia during the past year.
Today, editors from various Armenian newspapers gathered at the office of "Haykakan Zhamanak" to make a public appeal for the release of Nikol Pashinyan. What follows are the statements of a few of them.
Asked why the ruling HHK (Republican Party of Armenia) does not allow the opposition HAK (Armenian National Congress) to hold public gatherings at Opera’s Freedom Square in Yerevan, HHK MP Karen Avagyan asked why the site should make a difference in any ...
Commenting on the recent statement made by BHK (Prosperous Armenia Party) leader Gagik Tsarukyan that his party has its sights on winning a 50+1 majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections, HHK MP Karen Avagyan today stated that the best retort is that ...
Armenia must take lead regarding international recognition Ashot Grigoryan, President of the European Forum of Armenian Unions, seemed to crticize the policy of Armenia regarding the recognition of Artsakh, when he declared that "Our analysis shows ...
He declares that Heritage will go it alone if necessary When asked about the state of relations between his party and the opposition-based HAK (Armenian National Congress led by Levon Ter-Petrosyan), particularly in light of a recent statement that the ...
Yesterday, Hetq reported that the body of 31 year-old Tigran Sahakyan, a police investigator who worked on the case related to the post-election public disturbances of March 1, 2008, was found on Bagrevand Street in the Nor Nork district. Police have claimed ...
Bishop Arshak Khachatryan, Secretary of the Holy See at Etchmiadzin, said today that the Armenian Church wouldn’t have opposed nationalist Turks portraying at the ruins of Ani, if there was no other alternative. Bishop Khachatryan sarcastically added ...
Catholicos Garegin II is scheduled to visit Georgia at the end of October. Today, at a press conference held in Yerevan, Bishop Arshak Khachatryan said that the issue of whether or not the church head would travel to travel to Javakhk was under consideration. ...
“Hasmik paid me up till April and Gohar always paid Anna,” said Yelena, adding that Hasmik had sent her to Turkey to wash dishes. It turns out that Hasmik was forced to “turn tricks” in the sex ...
Who Was Actually Behind the Burglary of State Customs Committee Ex-President? Of the ten men charged with the break-in on the house of Armen Avedisyan, one of the richest individuals in Armenia and former president of the State Customs Committee, all are ...
Political commentator Hrant Ter-Abrahamyan today called the extension of the contract for the Russian military base in Armenia a national disgrace that signaled the formal end of Armenia’s independence. The Armenian government has approved a measure calling ...
At a press conference held earlier today, Sergey Minasyan, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute, argues that the military balance between Armenia and Azerbaijan wouldn’t be directly affected if Russia were to sell S-300 antimissile systems to Baku, ...
Ten individuals indicted for assaulting Custom’s Committee President The case of the break-in and burglary at the home of Armen Avetisyan, former president of the RoA Customs Committee continues at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court. An indictment ...
Girls Recruited in Russia to Dance in Yerevan Strip Clubs The Kentron and Nork Marash Administrative Court has been hearing the case of Yelena Kalyakinyan and her 27 year-old daughter Vera, residents of the Russian city of Volgograd, for the past year. The ...
Samvel Avagyan, a specialist in urban affairs, stated today that while there are many urban communities in Armenia that have the potential to grow, the only growth is being registered in the capital, Yerevan. "This is s negative factor, and, I believe, ...
Today there are 44 foreign citizens detained in the penal institutions of Armenia who have been convicted or accused of illegal drug smuggling for eventual sale. The vast majority of them (80 %) are citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Aleksan Harutyunyan, President of Armenia’s TV and Radio Council, said that come the new season in September, viewers and listeneres will have less to complain about regarding programming on the airwaves. Mr. Harutyunyan, commenting on criticisms that ...
Based on international studies, on average, 10% of a given country’s population suffers from some sort of psychological illness. Psychiatrist Harutyun Minasyan said today that according to this finding, there should be 350,000 people in Armenia experiencing ...
Psychiatrist Harutyun Minasyan said that based on his statistics, one suicide takes place on a daily basis in Armenia and that the vast majority of those taking their own lives are the young. Mr. Minasyan said there are many reasons for the high number ...
Lyudmila Sargsyan, who heads the Social Democrat Hnchak Party in Armenia, said that the political opposition in Armenia will change its strategy for realizing regime change in the country only after all possible constitutional avenues have been exhausted. "I ...
Lyudmila Sargsyan, Chairwoman of the Social Democrat Hnchak Party in Armenia, pointed to the defeat of a draft bill regarding modifying the "Language Law" in Armenia as the most urgent problem facing the country today. At a press conference, Chairman Sargsyan ...
Construction work is near completion at Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport that will allow the world’s largest planes to land and take off. A $3 million project to widen and resurface the landing strip at the airport will be finished in two ...
An official with the RoA Crime Investigation Department says that "juvenile crime" in Armenia isn’t out of proportion when compared to other nations. Nelli Douryan, says that the drug usage problem among young people in Armenia today is under control ...
Is there a Javakhk connection to the attempted murder? Reporter and lawyer Argishti Kiviryan says that even crimes that have been uncovered in Armenia remain uncovered; referring to the crime he was subject to. Mr. Kiviryan, director of the “Armenia ...
Samvel Petrosyan, the Akhalkalak Police Chief, responds to questions posed by Hetq regarding the Argishti Kiviryan case. Mr. Karapetyan, today, at the Argishti Kiviryan press conference, certain criticism was directed at you, alleging that you were ...
Turkish studies expert Hakob Chakryan stated today that Armenians have been "waking up and sleeping with the Protocols ever since October 10 of last year, the day they were signed." "Lately, he said, "we have been waking and sleeping with Obama’s every ...
“The money was just to cover my business expenses”, says one Two top former officials in the RoA Ministry of Nature Protection (MNP), Tigran Grigoryan, who headed the Ministry’s Environmental Inspectorate, and Arsen Petrosyan, his deputy, have ...
First “Bjni” now “Byuregh”: Authorities seek to cripple opposition supporters
Today, Hunan Poghosyan, who heads the Police department’s Organized Crime Division, verified rumors that Areg Hayrapetyan, who used to run the Ministry of Culture’s Legal Affairs and Audit Division had been arrested two days ago. Poghosyan refused to ...
The trial of two top former officials in the RoA Ministry of Nature Protection on bribery charges, was cancelled today. None the six subpoenaed witness or the Prosecuting Attorney showed up at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court. The two officials, ...
Crowds march to Myasnikyan Square to lay flowers in memory of March 1, 2008 victims The HAK rally kicked off today at 5 pm in the vicinity of the Matenadaran in downtown Yerevan First to address the crowd, numbering in the tens of thousands, was ...
At a press conference today, RoA Chief Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan said that an amnesty for convicted Haykakan Zhamanak Editor Nikol Pashinyan would be granted only after the case had gone through the entire appeals process and a final verdict had been reached. "When ...
Photo-journalist Gagik Shamshyan was attacked and beaten earlier today outside the RoA Chief Prosecutor’s Office. Mr. Shamshyan had gone to cover a session of the Chief Prosecutor’s staff and was photographing officials as they entered the building when ...
Photo-journalist Gagik Shamshyan was attacked and beaten earlier today outside the RoA Chief Prosecutor’s Office. Mr. Shamshyan had gone to cover a session of the Chief Prosecutor’s staff and was photographing officials as they entered the building when he was attacked by a young man.
Lusineh Sahakyan and Yervant Varosyan, the lawyers for Saribek Sukiasyan, today requested that the Chamber of Advocates sit in session to hear their side of the story regarding charges brought against their client. Saribek Sukiasyan, brother of former MP ...
Lusineh Sahakyan and Yervant Varosyan, the lawyers for Saribek Sukiasyan, today requested that the Chamber of Advocates sit in session to hear their side of the story regarding charges brought against their client.
Yerevan Police Chief confessed today, when questioned by reporters, that his son was the owner of the “Moskvichka” supermarket chain. It seems that a newspaper had hinted that Chief Nazaryan had advised mid and low-level police employees to do their family shopping at the “Moskvichka” stores.
Yerevan Police Chief confessed today, when questioned by reporters, that his son was the owner of the "Moskvichka" supermarket chain. It seems that a newspaper had hinted that Chief Nazaryan had advised mid and low-level police employees to do their family ...
Today, Yerevan Police Chief Nerses Nazaryan said that he had personally apologized to journalist Gohar Veziryan, in the name of the Yerevan Police Department, and that the "Chorrord Ishkhanutyun" newspaper reporter accepted the apology. Chief Nazaryan made ...
Today, Yerevan Police Chief Nerses Nazaryan said that he had personally apologized to journalist Gohar Veziryan, in the name of the Yerevan Police Department, and that the “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” newspaper reporter accepted the apology.
Davit Shahnazaryan, a representative of the opposition HAK, said today that after regime change in Armenia those political forces presently constituting the government will have no political future. "They will not last for even one day as the opposition ...
Davit Shahnazaryan, a representative of the opposition HAK, said today that after regime change in Armenia those political forces presently constituting the government will have no political future.
The Deputy Chairman of the RoA National Assembly Samvel Nikoyan stated today that he viewed Armenian-Turkish relations in a national security context and that if relations between the two nations are normalized "threats emanating from Turkey will be lessened." DC ...
The Deputy Chairman of the RoA National Assembly Samvel Nikoyan stated today that he viewed Armenian-Turkish relations in a national security context and that if relations between the two nations are normalized “threats emanating from Turkey will be lessened.”
Last year, Vardan Avetisyan and Vazgen Pkhrikyan, in two separate cases, stood before an Armenian court, charged with bank fraud and money laundering. According to the indictment, the two had illegally copied “MBNA America Bank” cards to extract funds and then laundered the stolen cash.
Retailers Found Guilty but Won’t Do Jail Time Last year, Vardan Avetisyan and Vazgen Pkhrikyan, in two separate cases, stood before an Armenian court, charged with bank fraud and money laundering. According to the indictment, the two had illegally copied ...
John Mayer, who heads the Anti-Drug and Legal Affairs Cooperation Division with the US Embassy in Armenia, today characterized the RoA Police Department’s handling of the March 1, 2008 public unrest in Armenia following the contested presidential elections as, “the tactics and doctrine of the Soviet period and not suitable for such instances.”
U.S. Firm to Train Armenian Police in "Crowd Control" John Mayer, who heads the Anti-Drug and Legal Affairs Cooperation Division with the US Embassy in Armenia, today characterized the RoA Police Department’s handling of the March 1, 2008 public unrest ...