In a public statement issued today by Armenia’s Heritage Party regarding the recent protocols signed by Turkey and Armenia , the opposition party calls for the documents to be put to a national referendum and points to a list of unacceptable points contained ...
Today, RoA Police Chief Alik Sargsyan stated today that beating of popular Shant TV host Nver Mnatsakanyan was a case of mistaken identity and not a result of his professional work as a journalist. "Let me say that two men met with Nver Mnatsakanyan's son, ...
Sona Harutyunyan, Director of the RoA State Employment Agency, reported today that as of August 1 the unemployment figure for Armenia stands at 7%, a 0.7 % rise from the start of the year. There are 101,000 registered individuals now seeking work in the country, ...
Kiro Manoyan, who heads the ARF Political Affairs Bureau in Yerevan, today stated that any talk regarding a possible settlement of the Karabakh conflict would be pure speculation since there are no specific indications as to what developments to expect in ...
On July 5, 2009, Helsinki Association member and legal rights defender Arshaluys Hakobyan was arrested by police at his home, charging him with resisting arrest while in an intoxicated state. On August 5, law enforcement officials decided to extend his detention ...
At a press conference held today, political commentator Sergei Shakaryants touched on the recent comments of Minsk Group Co-chair Matthew Bryza in Tzaghkadzor "What does he have in mind when he speaks about the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan? For the ...
At a press conference held today, Heritage Party Deputy Stepan Safaryan, commenting on Karabakh conflict settlement negotiations, noted that the growing bellicose statements by Azerbaijan are indeed a cause for concern. "Today, the ever increasing war mongering ...
Turkish specialist Ruben Melkonyan today stated that when it comes to Turkish-Armenian relations community-based encounters are pivotal and provide the opportunity for common folk on both sides to meet and develop a better understanding of their neighbors. He ...
Today political analysts Hrant Bagratyan and Gurgen Arsenyan spoke about Armenian-Turkish relations at a press conference. Mr. Bagratyan argued that President Sargsyan must travel to Turkey for the return football match between the teams of the two countries ...
At a press conference today, former RoA Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan stated that recent developments surrounding Karabakh settlement talks were a cause for great concern and that the Armenian public is fully justified to express its suspicions regarding ...
Armenian People's Party President Tigran Karapetyan stated today that he supports the call for the resignation of Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian given the secrecy surrounding the Karabakh negotiations and the fact that FM Nalbandian refuses to ...
At a press conference held earlier today, Armenia's Human Rights Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan, stated that he wished to see the recently declared general amnesty apply to all those jailed in connection with the events of March 1, 2008. "The amnesty must ...
Former RoA Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanian, recently released after spending sixteen months in jail, stated that the events of the past one and a half years in Armenia has set the country back by decades. Mr. Arzumanian, who was released under the ...
RoA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the opening of a two day international conference entitled "The Influence of the global crisis on Armenia: short-term and long-term prospects" in Yerevan today. Participants discussed the short-term and long-term ...
Below is the text of a June 22, 2009 IMF press report regarding additional funding that the organization will make available to Armenia. The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Armenia’s economic ...
The global financial crisis in Armenia, and the rest of the world for that matter, has impacted all sectors of society, including the print media. Expenses at printing houses have gone up and this has affected print runs. Advertising is also a big problem ...
Today, Karen Tamazyan, who heads the Department of Development of the Financial Markets at the RoA Ministry of Finance, and Karineh Hakobyan, Director of the "Reform" NGO, debated the recent decision of the government to outlaw casinos and gaming parlors in ...
Tatul Manaseryan, economics advisor to the President of the RoA National Assembly, said that despite the fact that Armenia is part of the world economic system; the country could chart its own course of development to pull though out of the current economic ...
"This bill plans for a number of incomprehensible points, especially the part that would call for the presence of tax inspectors in certain places of business. The bill totally contradicts logic, the constitution and a liberal perspective. While I understand ...
During a wide-ranging press conference held today Tigran Karapetyan, who heads the People's Party, blasted the May 31 municipal elections as "demeaning", saying that there could be no talk of a democratic process having taken place. "They brought in the people. ...
At a press conference today, American-Armenian businessman Vahakn Hovnanian was asked if he felt safe in Armenia coming from the diaspora, especially in light of the fact that the body of missing American-Armenian businessman Nazaret Berberian was found ...
Political scientists Alexander Margaryan and Yervand Bozoyan expressed their concerns regarding the ongoing normalization process between Turkey and Armenia at a press conference held today. Mr. Bozoyan went so far as to say that the neogtiating process has ...
On the anniversary of the Karabakh ceasefire that was signed on May 12, 1994, HAK representative Davit Shahnazaryan stated that the NKR had been totally pushed out of the negotiations process and that if it wants to become a party to the talks it must declare ...
At a press conference held today, Armenian architecture specialist Samvel Karapetyan, and civic government expert Hasmik Melikyan, raised a number of concerns regarding the lack of attention paid by the Armenian government in response to Azeri demands that ...
Samvel Babayan, the former NKR Defense Minister, noted that he believed that the ruling coalition would maintain their control over Yerevan whatever the outcome of the upcoming municipal elections. "In my opinion, the majority of the votes will be distributed ...