Sargsyan said that on the day the Cyprus company was registered, May 6, 2010, he was visiting Prague, in the company of many reporters.
By a vote of 87 to 4, the RA National Assembly today passed a bill allowing the government to grant certain tax and customs concessions regarding a project to build an international school in Dilijan.
Davi Sargsyan quickly retorted that such allegations were falsehoods and that the prime minister had applied to the General Prosecutor’s Office, requesting that it investigate how his name appeared on the Cyprus registry document of a certain company.
The $550 million project, of which a mere $20 million has been invested to date, is planned to house 600 students at a school the government claims would be operated to international standards.
“This will come as a new shock to the financial credit policy and we will be forced to review our inflationary estimates,” Djavardyan said.
Earlier today, the RA National Assembly voted down a bill introduced by HAK MP Hrand Bagratyan seeking to regulate the operations of offshore companies in Armenia’s mining sector.
In the Armenian town of Shorzha, on the far side of Lake Sevan, a company owned by the local mayor won a 29.240 million AMD work contract for a construction project in Shorzha itself.
On April 12, of this year, the Kotayk Provincial Administration signed a 70 million AMD road repair contract with a company owned by Minister of Environmental Protection Ara Harutyunyan.
To say that nepotism is widespread in Aragatzotn is an understatement, but take the case of Nairi Sahakyan, brother of provincial Governor Sargis Sahakyan.
Sometime in September, the Kantegh choir of Los Angeles will be heading to Armenia for a of concert of troubadour music. The precise date is now being worked out in conjunction with the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.
In lieu of compensation for the widespread May 12 hailstorm damage to local farmers, the RA Ministry of Agriculture has allocated 87 million AMD worth of seeds to the Armavir Provincial Administration.
It took us more than an hour to find the wood shack in the town of Metzamor that Artour Stepanyan and his large family call home.
By a vote of 76 to 41, the RA National Assembly minutes ago approved the government’s “program” for the next five years.
Speaking on behalf of the Prosperous Armenia Party, MP Stepan Margaryan today stated in parliament that his party could not support the government’s plan for the next five years.
Syunik Provincial Governor (Marzpet) Sourik Khachatryan is a classic example of how one becomes a billionaire overnight in Armenia.
ARF MP Vahan Hovhannisyan labelled the recent attempts by the government to defend its platform for the next five years as a “circus performance”.
A Heritage Party bill including changes and amendments to the RA Family Code was voted down today by 66 votes to 41. There was one abstention.
At today’s parliamentary session Republican Party MP Vahram Baghdasaryan called on Speaker Abrahamyan to “call to order” those legislators using insulting language.
At today’s parliament session HAK MP Hrand Bagratyan said the nation was at a crucial juncture and that the government needed to focus on several main issues.
It turns out that Sedrak Kocharyan, eldest son of former RA President Robert Kocharyan, is the largest landowner in Talvorik.
Yesterday’s hail damaged crops and fruit trees in some 39 communities in Armenia’s Armavir Province according to initial reports from the field
Seven incidents of reporters being prevented from carrying out their professional duties were registered by the police on May 5, the day of the Yerevan municipal elections.
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has submitted the make-up of the new government to President Serzh Sargsyan. Only three ministries will see new heads.
Theater and film director Ashot Adamyan told Hetq that residents of Yerevan participated in a rigged election on May 5 and that they really had no say in the make-up of the next Council of Aldermen.
At the time, Virabyan was a member of the People’s Party of Armenia and actively participated in public rallies and political campaigning for the 2004 presidential election in Armenia.
Rouzanna Grigoryan, an election monitor from Transparency International, was threatened and her video camera was stolen at the 8/08 polling station in Malatya-Sebastia.
Reports are circulating that unidentified individuals are passing out green pens to voters opposite the polling station located in the school on Nar Tos Street.
A Yerevan court today upheld the suit brought by Armenian blogger Tigran Kocharyan charging the newspaper Chorrord Inknishkanutyun with slander
ARF MP Artzvik Minasyan has made two futile attempts to receive written clarifications from the government regarding the Nairit Rubber Plant.
Earlier today, a Yerevan court threw out the suit filed by Zhoghovurd newspaper reporter Sona Avetisyan against businessman Khachik Khachatryan for calling her a prostitute during a December 28, 2012 telephone conversation.
A police officer who was caught on tape verbally abusing and pushing Hetq reporter Ani Hovhannisyan was fired today by RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan.
While the RA Ministry of Agriculture has advised villagers to use smoke and irrigation to counter the weather conditions, local residents complain that there has been no water to irrigate what’s left of the crop.
After a meeting of the Executive Board of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan announced that Tigran Sargsyan had been re-nominated to the post.
He’s considered one of the wealthiest of MP’s and retains that distinction in the list of candidates for the Yerevan Municipal Council (or Council if Elders).
The current make-up of the council is as follows: Republican Party of Armenia – 35 seats, Prosperous Armenia – 17 seats, Armenian National Congress (HAK) – 13 seats.
Artour Petrosyan is the Deputy Director of the Lous Astgh Sugar Company, colloquially known as the Akhouryan sugar plant.
What follows is a breakdown of assets owned by those heading their respective party proportional tickets in the upcoming May 5 Yerevan municipal elections.
At the start of today's parliamentary session, Heritage Party MP Zarouhie Postanjyan rose and gave a five minute speech.
Simonyan told Hetq that what transpired on Baghramyan Avenue once again proves that the regime is not ready to resolve internal political issues in a civilized manner.
Heritage Party member Anahit Bakhshyan has informed Hetq that the police are still holding Heritage Party Vice-President and former MP Arem Martirosyan in the Arabkir police station.
Serzh Sargsyan, after having been inaugurated as the next “official" president, accepted the resignation of the government.
Prosperous Armenia Party spokesperson Iveta Tonoyan has informed Hetq that Gagik Tsarukyan has left the country and thus will not be able to attend tomorrow’s presidential inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan.
Abrahamyan was visibly perturbed when asked if Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan would attend Serzh Sargsyan’s inauguration.
Today’s National Assembly session got off to another “heated” start when Heritage Party MP Zarouhie Postanjyan quizzed Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan about tomorrow’s inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan.
In response, Demoyan has stated that his wish to become a member of the Yerevan Municipal Council has nothing to do with affixing another title to his name.
On the night of March 24, temperatures in the Ararat Valley dropped by three degree in some areas and experts are now wondering how this will affect blossoming apricot trees.
Recently, Republican Party MP Karen Avagyan wrote on his Facebook page that, “Prosperous Armenia isn't really a political party but rather a political project that periodically surfaces and introduces a bill.”
A young man brandishing a knife and shouting that he was Jesus Christ was shot in the foot by security staff outside the National Assembly reception room at around 3pm today.
The Armenian National Assembly today debated a package of legislative changes proposed by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) designed to rectify violations registered in last May’s parliamentary elections.
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