Levon Zurabyan, Coordinator of the HAK opposition alliance, stated today that the regime had a chance to start a dialogue with the opposition and the public by freeing all detainees but that the actions of the government prove that it isn't motivated by a ...
At a press conference held earlier today, HAK Coordinator Levon Zurabyan stated that the reason for calling an unscheduled public rally on July 2 was to provide an opportunity for the people to meet opposition leaders who had recently been released from detention. "We ...
President of the RoA National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan today stated at a special session of the legislative body that in light of the political situation in Armenia a general amnesty is a long awaited and justified step to be taken. "Today, an amnesty ...
At a special session of the RoA National Assembly today, Justice Minister Gevorg Danielyan introduced the legal basis for the planned for general amnesty to the deputies in attendance. After the presentation, Deputy Viktor Dallakyan inquired whether the ...
Former residents of Northern Avenue in downtown Yerevan, evicted from the homes on the basis of public domain to make way for new residential and commercial high-rise buildings, staged a protest today outside the Government Building. "For six years we have ...
Psychologist Albert Nalchatchyan today warned that the Armenian people lack an overall national ideology and that any nation without one is without direction. "At the base of such an ideology is a creed of values. With such a value system one has direction ...
At a joint press conference, political scientist Levon Shirinyan and psychologist Albert Nalchatchyan urged the Armenian government to pay more attention to the Middle East when it comes to foreign policy issues. "We do little that is directed to the Middle ...
At an press conference held earlier today, Heritage Party Deputy Styopa Safaryan said the soon to be announced general amnesty wouldn't live up to the expectations of the public nor the opposition political forces. "The amnesty will not be of the size and ...
New Times Party leader Aram Karapetyan stated at a press conference earlier today that the March 1st Committee hasn’t accomplished its mission of exposing what actually transpired on March 1, 2008. "If Robert Kocharyan hasn't appeared before the committee ...
Responding to opposition press reports that the Heritage Party has become a "satellite" appendage of the ruling coalition, HP Deputy Stypoa Safaryan stated that, "Heritage has never viewed itself as neither the number one party in Armenia nor the last. Since ...
Regarding the recent decision of the Millennium Challenge Corporation to halt funding of its $67 million road rehabilitation in Armenia, Prosperous Party of Armenia Deputy Nayira Zohrabyan stated that she was saddened by the decision and asked whether such ...
Galust Sahakyan, who heads the Republican Party of Armenia faction in the parliament, stated that the recent Yerevan municipal elections further strengthened the ruling coalition’s internal mechanisms. Mr. Sahakyan offered his views at a parliamentary ...
ARF parliamentary faction leader Vahan Hovhannisyan, commenting on the U.S. State Department report focusing on the political situation in Armenia, stated that he believed the "political crisis" in the country had been overcome. "As always, the U.S. State ...
Today the Armenian government submitted a package of environmental reforms and amendments to the RoA National Assembly for review. The package contains stipulations regarding the problems involving improper waste disposal by manufacturing companies. The ...
At a National Assembly question and answer period held today, Heritage Party Deputy Stoypa Safaryan touched upon the unprecedented number of journalists assaulted during the 2008-2009 period. He mentioned the incidents involving Gagik Shamshyan, Lousineh ...
At today's National Assembly session, RoA Deputy Finance Minister Suren Karayan announced that the government had proposed that the vote on the pending tax reform package be postponed by 15 days. Vardan Ayvazyan, President of the Permanent Committee for ...
Commenting on the upcoming Yerevan municipal elections, Davit Harutyunyan, a Republican Party MP who chairs the National Assembly's Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, stated, "These elections are political elections. Those who claim they are not ...
Sargis Khshtoyan, from Getashen, has unloaded several tons of onions harvested from his fields into the village garbage dump. Other farmers in Getashen have also dumped their onions here. You will mostly find onions imported from Iran in the stores and ...
At today's public rally organized by HAK (Armenian National Congress), Levon Zurabyan stated in his address to the tens of thousands of people who assembled at the foot of the Matenadaran that Armenia faces serious challenges and Turkish and Azerbaijani threats. ...
At a press conference held today, Heritage Party parliamentary faction head Armen Martirosyan and Arman Sahakyan, a member of the coalition majority Republican Party of Armenia, responded to reporters' questions regarding the assaults on opposition supporters ...
Armen Martirosyan, who heads the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, stated at a press conference earlier today regarding the ARF's decision to quit the ruling coalition that, "In essence, the ARF's move to pull out of the coalition was solely based on the ...
At the request of "Hetq", Prosperous Armenia Party Deputy Naira Zohrabyan commented on yesterday's parliamentary closed door deliberations regarding developments in the normalization process of Armenian-Turkish relations. She stated that agreement had been ...
ARF Deputy Armen Rustamyan, in a response to "Hetq", noted that the ARF participated in yesterday's closed door parliamentary advisory session on Armenian-Turkish relations and that the party was more convinced than ever that it took the right decision to ...
President of the RoA National Assembly, Hovik Abrahamyan, made a public request at today's session of the parliament on behalf of the governing coalition that ARF members Armen Rustamyan and Artur Aghabekyan withdraw their resignations and continue in their ...
At a press conference held today, political analyst Igor Mouradyan, commenting on the decision of the ARF to pull out of the governing coalition, noted that, "The ARF quite the coalition not because a document was signed in Switzerland. What kind of political ...
The economic crisis has also thrown the family of Mrs. Siroush, from Kaqavaberd, into hard times. Her sons haven’t gone to Russia to seek work because there isn’t any to be found. We met up with three women neighbors of Mrs. Siroush in a field some three ...
"As of now the ARF will function in the form of an opposition force in the political arena of Armenia. Our priorities will be to become a full alternative to the government and to propose our own programs and solutions to all outstanding issues." This is ...
At a press conference held today, Kiro Manoyan, who heads the ARF "Hay Dat" and political affairs bureau, commented on speculation that that the ARF might pull out of the ruling government coalition over its displeasure with the recently signed Armenian-Turkish ...
Today, RoA Ministry for Emergency Situations Mher Shahgeldyan, announced plans to set up a program leading to the creation of a not for profit "Regional Diasaster Health Center" network. The minister stated that, "One of the most pressing problems to safeguard ...
At an ARF sponsored roundtable discussion of Armenian-Turkish relations noted actor Sos Sargsyan commented that the Turks have historically been the enemy of the Armenian people and that they continue to be. "They have only one issue confronting them - ...
At a round table discussion held today regarding Armenian-Turkish relations, Hrant Margaryan, a representative of the ARF Bureau, commented that Turkey had delievered a strong blow against the issue of the Armenian Genocide by making its two preconditions ...
An exhibition dedicated to diaspora Armenian photographers opened at the "Akatemia" gallery yesterday including a reception to mark the launch of Vahan Kochar's compendium entitled "Armenian Photographers". "Perhaps no other nation has such a book, a collection ...
"Turkey's situation and role in the region has never been so important and at the same time so weak," was the sentiment expressed by Ara Nranyan, a member of of the ARF parliamentary faction. Mr. Nranyan stated that that the role of Armenia in the region ...
At a press conference held earlier today Turkish studies specialist Raffi Kurtoushyan stated, "Turkish politicians and reporters are always talking about three preconditions, of which only two are discussed in Armenia. And these are misleading." Mr. Kurtoushyan ...
An exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the painter Minas Avetisyan, is taking place at the National Picture Gallery in Yerevan. The painter's wife, Gayaneh Mamajanyan, told "Hetq" that, "The first time Minas took me to his studio I immediately ...
During a press conference held today, Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovhannisyan stated, "I am ready to follow the campaigns of all the candidates and I wish all on the HAK ballot, the first president of Armenia, my good friend Stepan Demirchyan, and all competing ...
When asked by "Hetq" at a press conference held today as to whether the proposed Iran-Armenia railway project was justifiable, political analyst Stepan Grigoryan responded, "Even the potential project will be a major factor in the arena of foreign relations. ...
At a press conference held today in Yerevan, Kiro Manoyan, who heads the ARF "Hay Dat" and Political Affairs Office, stated that, "Obama will carry out his obligation and will definitely recognize the genocide as he promised before being elected and as he ...
At today's parliamentary press briefing deputies commented on police actions that dispersed people and reporters who have been assembling along Northern Avenue. The police have been reported to having used physical force to disperse those who gather at ...
At a National Assembly press briefing, several deputies gave their evaluations of President Serzh Sargsyan's first year in office. Heritage Party Deputy Larisa Alaverdyan summed up her thoughts in one sentence - "The only achievement is that the events ...
At a press conference Marianne Isler Beguin, Co-president of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, commented, "For a whole host of reasons I can state that the building of a new nuclear reactor isn't the best solution for Armenia's energy needs." "There ...
At a press conference Marianne Isler Beguin, Co-President of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, had some difficulty when asked by reporters to list some of the political issues discussed by the delegation while in Armenia. The co-president ...
Twenty years ago, Gohar moved from Yeghegnadzor’s Malishka village to Yerevan. She graduated the Accounting Department of the Commercial-Law College of Yerevan. She settled down in the Avan hostel. Today, she still lives in the same hostel completely alone. “I ...
The striking "Hrazdan" market vendors continued their protest action into a second day in front of the Government Building in central Yerevan. The vendors are demanding that their stall fees be cut in half, from the 225,000 drams they are presently paying ...
"We regret the fact not only that the HAK and the Heritage Party failed to come up with a united ticket for the municipal elections, but that Heritage chose not to participate at all. Nevertheless, we understand the reason that our colleagues chose to do so," ...
Arman Mousinyan, HAK (Armenian National Congress) Press Secretary, stated that, "We will run a very active campaign for the municipal elections. Not only will there be a rally and a march, but several rallies and marches. The HAK campaign will be highly dynamic ...
At a press briefing held today, Artyusha Shahbazyan, secretary of the ARF's parliamentary faction stated that the party's Supreme Council failed to convene the other day and thus no decision was taken regarding who would head the ARF ticket fir the May Yerevan ...
The Prosperous Armenia Party, headed by businessman Gagik Tzaroukyan, filed registration papers today with the RoA Central Election Commission for the upcoming May Yerevan mayoral election. The PAP's press secretary, Tatev Ohanyan, has reported that the ...
According to RoA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, the government has given its consent to an agreement made by RoA Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian between Armenia and the United States that would allow for the opening of an international schools ...