It's no secret that Manukyan was sent to Ukraine, where he has a number of ventures, to grow his business.
Since being elected in 2012, Gevoryan hasn’t made much of a presence in the legislature. He’s better known for his taste of expensive cars.
The recent frost that struck Armenia at the end of March has hit rural communities the hardest. Residents of one village say because of the frost they are barely able to make their loan payments, adding that the frost could even lead to increased emigration and crime.
This is what Armenia’s National Assembly looked like today as it debated a bill making changes to the RA Law on Taxes that would increase tax rates.
Armenia’s Minister of Finance Davit Sargsyan today said that he isn’t worried about a government ‘no confidence’ bill that will be shortly introduced in parliament by the four non-coalition parties.
The property is owned by Shogherina Mkrtchyan, the wife of ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP Samvel Aleksanyan, a prominent oligarch known who owns the Yerevan City chain of supermarkets.
Armenia’s Central Bank Chairman Arthur Javadyan and his wife appear to be doing quite well financially despite the current economic situation in the country.
I get a strange look when I ask Atom Tadevosyan, mayor of the Araksavan village in Ararat Province, if there are any needy families in the community.
Gevorgyan said that last year the government had begun to register all wells in the area and had closed down illegal ones, thus negating their negative impact on the local environment.
Armenia’s National Assembly today approved two bills amending its rules of procedure and that of the “Law Regarding the Prosecutor General’s Office". The latter will require the nation’s prosecutor general to present an annual report to the legislature and the president by April 1.
72 year-old Irma Haroutyunyan, the only women candidate, beat her rival by 61 votes and thus was assured a seat on the council in the community she relocated to as a refugee from Baku in the late 1980s.
In yesterday’s election for mayor of the Ararat village of Nizam, Republican Party incumbent Artavazt Dounoyan lost his re-election bid to independent candidate Haroutyun Karapetyan by a vote of 254 to 214.
The MP noted that the number of traffic violations was actually going up rather than decreasing, which was the expected result of the speed cameras in the first place.
“People in Armenia also have the right to have a just government and I believe what happened in Kiev can happen here,” Bagratyan said.
By a vote of 75 to 3, the Armenian National Assembly today passed a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to investigate the issue of natural gas supply and pricing in Armenia.
While the government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Feb. 5 quashed a proposal by the opposition to create an ad-hoc committee to look into the country’s foreign debt accumulated since 2011 in the natural gas supply sector and to review the price of the fuel, today the ruling coalition parties floated the idea of creating a similar committee but with different powers.
Armenian National Congress MP Aram Manoukyan asked National Assembly President Hovik Abrahamyan why for more than a week wires are being connected and video cameras are being installed in their offices, and in the yard and corridors of the parliament building.
When we asked what she would do if she were the president, Siranoush mulled the question over for a few seconds and responded that job creation would be her first objective.
The residents of Arevashat village in Armavir Province support each other in cultivating the land, but they say that without loans from the bank they are unable to invest in a greenhouse and grow crops to sell at the market.
Fertilizer and diesel fuel cheaper than the market price are being made available only to those inhabitants of Armenia's rural communities who can pay cash up front.
Armen Poghosyan, who heads Armenia’s Union of Consumers, told Hetq that they have eggs imported from Ukraine stamped with a two month expiration date, claiming that such a long shelf life is impossible.
At 73, Julieta Hakobyan is no less capable of working on the land than her son and daughter-in-law. She grows crops to feed her family and to sell to support her grandchild who is serving in the army.
Armenia's State Revenue Committee plans on spending hundreds of thousands of dram this year on plane tickets, LED TV screens, and pens, among other "everyday" items.
The Armenian government has allocated 4.6 million AMD (US$115,000) to install closed-circuit television cameras throughout the National Assembly, justifying the expenditure as as ‘security enhancement.
Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan was forced to bang his gavel and call boisterous MPs to order today just a few minutes after the legislature opened for business.
By a vote of 58 to 44, Armenia’s National Assembly rejected a proposal by minority parliamentary factions to create an ad-hoc committee to look into the country’s foreign debt accumulated since 2011 in the natural gas supply sector.
Grigor Grigoryan, a Prosperous Armenia party MP says he wants to give up his post as deputy chairman of the RA National Assembly’s Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs Standing Committee.
While 27 MPs must pay into Armenia's new mandatory pension fund, the 104 others can do so on a voluntary basis. But so far, none have chosen this route.
A vote to increase the number of members of the parliamentary Ad-Hoc Counting Committee today passed with only the ruling coalition voting and despite objections from the parliamentary opposition.
Upon spotting a number of bodyguards outside the chamber, members of the press figured that Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan showed up too.
The family’s only source of income is a monthly allowance of 61,000 AMD ($150 U.S.)
A Russian citizen spent two hours dangling in a Tzaghkatzor ski lift last Saturday after workers shut the power off and went home.
According to the 2012 disclosure, the wealthiest wife of all Armenia’s ministers is Nouneh Nikolyan, spouse of Minister of Transport and Communication Minister Gagik Beglaryan.
Several villages in Armenia’s Armavir Province have been without bus service since December 25 and local residents point an accusing finger at Republican Party MP Hrant Grigoryan, owner of the company.
The Republican Party member declared 1.5 billion AMD ($3.8 million) in bank deposits as of the end of 2012.
Hetq has just learnt that National Assembly President Hovik Abrahamyan has signed a Russian natural gas treaty that was adopted in a controversial ratification vote yesterday.
The council allocated 90,000 AMD, from the village budget, apiece to five women who claimed that they needed the assistance.
Minutes ago, Armenia’s National Assembly voted to ratify a natural gas agreement with Russia that would essentially hand over total supply and distribution to Gazprom.
The Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) party and party MP Levon Dokholyan have sued the Zhoghovourd newspaper for slander, and each is demanding 3.5 million AMD in compensation.
100 million AMD will be spent from the 2014 budget to service the 29 automobiles in the Central Bank’s fleet next year.
By a vote of 73 to 37, Armenia’s National Assembly today passed a bill that would significantly raise the salaries of government officials, including MPs.
In his address today at the National Assembly, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan tried to allay concerns regarding the new mandatory pension system set to take effect as of January 1.
Some thirty Armenian MPs have added their names to a public petition opposing the “mandatory” provision of a new pension system set to take effect on January 1, 2014.
Armenia’s National Assembly today passed a draft bill containing a number of changes to the mandatory individual pension law that goes into effect as of January 1, 2014.
Javadyan paid 24 million AMD for a commemorative coin of 20th Century Armenian Catholicoi.
Minister Tovmasyan, visibly irritated at the question, added that the matter was in the hands of the Prosecutor General and that the government had a vested interest in getting to the truth.
Armenia’s National Assembly shot down, by a vote of 54-46, a draft statement that would have postponed the launch of a mandatory individual pension system by one year.
A festive mood reigned in the legislature. Naturally, MPs were as boisterous as ever, joking with colleagues, and failing to heed the admonitions of the parliament speakers.
Opposition MPs expressed concern over the detainment today in Yerevan of a number of activists protesting the arrival of Russian President Putin.
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