The election of the heads of National Assembly permanent commissions should have been a secret vote. Therefore, voting booths were set up in the lobby of the National Assembly. However, there was such a fuss and confusion in the corridor during the election that everyone voted openly wherever he could. Samvel Alexanyan, a member …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Harutyun Kushkyan, the Minister of Healthcare, will hand over his ministerial portfolio soon. During a conversation with www.aravot.am, the minister shared his feelings concerning handing over the field he had looked after and taken care of and whom he saw as the minister after he would resign. In response to our question whether he didn’t …
A new wave of emigration from our country has started. Hundreds of families have already sold their houses and left to enrich Canada. According to the information of www.aravot.am, it has come to the army – many of former defense ministry officials whose service contracts have expired, apply to the International Organization for Migration and …
“As it was expected, the political decision already made was made public,” Davit Matevosyan, a member of the ANC, said in response to a question of www.aravot.am how he would comment on the ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia. Let us remind that the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia …
As opposed to pessimistic and depressive sentiments, I must say that the 5th convocation of the National Assembly that is starting its work today is comprised of MPs, more than a half of which are capable of legislative work. Such are the Armenian National Congress (ANC) (7 MPs), the Rule of Law Party (RLP) (6), …
As Azerbaijan prepares for the Eurovision Song Contest finale on May 26, local human rights groups are warning that once international media interest wanes, the government will launch a crackdown to punish those who used the event to criticise its record. Winning the right to host Eurovision was a major coup for the government, which …
“You have known me for so many years, have I ever shown political talkativeness?” said Armen Ashotyan, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) executive body and the Minister of Education and Science, with humor in response to a question of www.aravot.am what they said behind the since in the RPA, whether, in …
“I admire Davit Harutyunyan’s behavior and that protesting attitude of Khosrov Harutyunyan. I like it. What has happened to you that you make these assessments of those people? They presented the reality, they haven’t said more, they have said less, they objectively tried to present what there was in the framework of the norms they …
It was hard for Artashes Geghamyan, a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP, to answer the question whether the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) would become an opposition or would join the coalition some time after and he didn’t comment on the news that the PAP pretended to be an opposition, in order to canvass for …
