Given that this is an extensive topic that is constantly being broached in the public relations blitz - at meetings, events, interviews and elsewhere, we’ll only focus on those clauses in their election platforms where the candidates touch upon the theme of corruption.
Some of the nine presidential candidates don’t even mention a word about the environment in their platforms.
In addition to this sum he had assets of 7.9 million drams and $216,000 at the beginning of 2006 and 8.1 million drams and $190,000 at the end of 2006.
The assessment of perception indicators in the field of public procurement resulted in a corruption risk of 58.33%
On December 15, the daily Haykakan Zhamanak printed an article entitled “Vazgen Manukyan's Mein Kampf". The article (written by Garegin Asoyan) stated that on September 27, 1996, during a warranted search of Vazgen Manukyan's National Democratic Union (NDU) party office, a manuscript was confiscated which had been written by Manukyan, but in the third person.
Agents from the Russian Ministry of the Interior’s Crime and Terrorism Department have arrested one of the men suspected of the attempted murder of Tigran Arzakantsyan, Armenian Member of Parliament and owner of the Great Valley Company.
Hetq reported recently on the disagreement between programmer Hrayr Avanesyan and the Armenian Electric Networks, in particular the general director of the latter, Yevgeny Gladunchik. Gladunchik refused to recognize the ownership rights of Avanesyan regarding the computer program called Gold. The AEN uses this program to calculate the cost and quantity of the electricity it supplies.
It all started towards the end of 2002, when the government sold the Armenian Electric Networks (AEN) company to a foreign enterprise called Midland Resources Holding and Yevgeny Gladunchik became the executive director of the company.
On October 23rd in the center of the capital a scuffle broke out between a group of peaceful marchers and the police. The group of about fifty people was heading down Mashtots Avenue in the direction of the “Yeritasardakan” Metro Station close to Abovyan Street.
Borik Mkrtchyan said that in 1992 he and his wife Anya were the only people left in the village of Vank in the Martakert region of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Everyone else had been force to leave their homes, for Yerevan, a hostel, or somewhere else.
“At 7:15 on August 6th, the Arabkir police station in Yerevan received an anonymous emergency call stating that Marcos Grigorian (born 1924) had been physically beaten at the house located at 57 Zarubyan Street. The investigative unit dispatched to the location discovered that at 4:20 on the same day two masked individuals had gained entry into the house by breaking through the metal railings of the door and afterwards proceeded to beat...
The last few months have been rich in Armenian-Azerbaijani sporting confrontations, which, as a rule, have not been lacking in political implications.
On September 26 at 4:10 a.m. Tigran Arzakantsyan, member of the Armenian Parliament, member of the Republican Party of Armenia, and owner of Great Valley, was attacked in the casino of Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. This is the second such incident involving Arzakantsyan in a Moscow casino, and it’s possible that the two incidents are related.
As reported earlier, a court decision has extended the pre-trial detention of former Foreign Minister Alexander Arzoumanian until September 7.
On September 15, at around 7 pm, Hovhannes Galajyan, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Isakakan Iravunk (True Right) was beaten by unknown assailants. This was the second such attack on Galajyan. The first occurred on September 6 last year, when he was assaulted, kicked and punched in the back and head by two strangers while leaving his house. The culprits behind the first attack have not been identified. A criminal case was filed this...
This is what the telephone caller to the ”Hetq” office asked. Our first reaction was that the call was a prank since “Hetq” has published several articles about Alexandre Varbedian and the fact that for the past five years he has been denied an entry visa for Armenia. He has never been told the exact reason why. Mr. Varbedian, a French citizen, has a son and grandchild in Yerevan whom he cannot see.
At 9:30 p.m. on September 6, 2007 former Foreign Minister Alexander Arzoumanian was released from the National Security Service (NSS) jail.
The village of Jiliza in the Lori Marz is one of the northernmost villages in Armenia. Unlike other villages, Jiliza is completely cut off from any other Armenian villages and towns. The closest is the town of Alaverdi, fifteen kilometers away as the crow flies, and twenty-eight kilometers away by the road.
For artist Arpineh Tokmajyan the question remains, “ This is the issue. If a citizen of Armenia doesn't disturb her neighbors, does she have the right to work in her apartment?”
Today, on August 6 th , Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan of the Kentron and Nork Marash Court of First Instance handed down guilty verdicts against Zhirayr Sefilyan, Commander of the Shushi Special Battalion, Vardan Malkhasyan, a member of the “Fatherland and Honor” political party and Karabakh freedom fighter Vahan Aroyan.
An interview with Nelly Harutyunyan, Head of International Legal Relations at the Office of the Prosecutor General
As reported earlier, a court decision has extended the pre-trial detention of former Foreign Minister Alexander Arzoumanian until September 7.
The trial of Zhirayr Sefilyan, Vardan Malkhasyan and Vahan Aroyan, which had begun on July 2, was resumed on July 11 at the Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash districts of Yerevan. After Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan had rejected numerous challenges submitted by the defense attorneys and after several statements had been made, the court proceedings finally entered the main examination phase.
On June 27, the Investigative Board of the National Security Service (NSS) presented a motion to the Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash Municipalities to extend by two months the pre-trial detention of Alexander Arzoumanian, the former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia who was arrested on May 7, 2007 on charges of money laundering. The courts will review the motion, which calls for detaining Arzoumanian till September...
Till today the authorities in the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh have no policy regarding the liberated territories.
Since 2002, entry into Armenia has been prohibited for French-Armenian ontologist and genealogist Alexandre Arord Varbedian.
On the night of May 7, at around 11.30 pm, National Security Service (NSS) agents arrested former Foreign Minister and founder of the Civil Disobedience Movement Alexander Arzoumanian as he returned home.
The year was 1989, during the Soviet era.
Interview with Sergey Vardanyan, philologist, deputy-chairman of the NGO Hamshen Compatriotic-Charity, editor-in-chief of the monthly Hamshen Voice
When the qualifying groups for Euro 2008 were drawn in Montreux, Switzerland in January 2006, many people asked themselves whether the matches between the national football teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Group A would take place.
For the residents of the village of Kaghtsrashen in the Ararat Marz, contaminated water and the accompanying kidney disease have become commonplace.
I would like to thank you for your initiative in investigating the real reasons of my and other political arrests in our country. I have refused to give any comments to the official investigating bodies, so thank you for giving me a chance to answer your questions.
Jirair Sefilyan's friends firmly believe that he has been isolated because of the parliamentary elections, since he has numerous followers and could have become a pivot for uniting the opposition.
Armenian Volunteers Unit, Yerevan, Armenia -- December 19, 2006
At about 10:30 or 11:00 at night on December 9, 2006, ten masked officers of the National Security Service burst into Beijing Restaurant on Tumanyan Street where Jirair Sefilyan and his Lebanese- Armenian friend Ralf Yirikyan, a citizen of Lebanon and the executive director of the company Vivacell, and their wives were having dinner.
Interview with Samvel Karapetyan, director of the Yerevan office of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA)
We reported on the destruction of the green zone between the residential apartment buildings at 19 Agayan Street and 56 Teryan Street in central Yerevan and launching of construction by the Nushikyan Association in the February 5 issue of Hetq.
Residents of 64 Oganov Street, an apartment building in Yerevan's Malatia-Sebastia district, have been living in appalling conditions since last December 30th , when their sewage pipes began to freeze.
Interview with Jemma Baghdasaryan, head of the Department on Disabled and Elderly Issues of the Ministry of Labor and Social Issues
Two men were getting ready for dinner by the dumpster near the Chamber Music Hall.
The village of Meghradzor is located fifteen kilometers northwest of the city of Hrazdan, on the left bank of Marmarik River. With population of 2,500, it's larger than other villages in the area.
The national chess team of Armenia has for the first time in history won the world chess Olympiad. The gold medals of the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin were awarded to grand masters Levon Aronyan, Vladimir Akopyan, Karen Asryan, Smbat Lputyan, Gabriel Sargsyan, Artashes Minasyan and coaches Arshak Petrosyan and Tigran Nalbandyan.
There are 51 centers that check and control automobile emissions in Armenia, nine of them in Yerevan. In addition to a routine annual inspection, all automobiles must be checked at special CO ( Carbon Monoxide) Centers.
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