As of press time, it appears that local police have not taken measures to disrupt the flow of people and cars to Yerevan on the day of the opposition-based HAK rally
On March 24, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan released a bombshell of devastating news. Government studies had revealed the existence of dangerous bacteria in samples of inspected cheese and non-compliance with health and safety standards.
This time around it was MP Sashik Sargsyan who grabbed the tape recorder of Hraparak reporter Marineh Kharatyan after she asked Sargsyan if he was planning to run for office again in next year's elections.
Father Yesaye, pastor of the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church located in the Malatia-Sebastia district of Yerevan, told Hetq that he was threatened yesterday by two young followers of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
"Priests in Armenia differ from those here. Those in Armenia still serve as formal clergy who officiate at various rituals. It's a holdover from the Soviet era. This is slowly changing but this view still holds, and in the people as well. If I am about to conduct a marriage here I meet several times with the couple. This doesn't happen in Armenia."
According to her 2009 financial disclosure statement, that all members of the parliament must submit, she had revenues totaling some 824 million AMD and $466,000. The average salary of an Armenian MP is 3.780 million AMD.
A debate on amendments to the RA “Law Regarding Public Serice” resumed today in the National Assembly at which only 13 MP’s were present. MP Bisharyan says clause regarding "receiving gifts" is unjust.
“Yerevan was amazing. Given the Soviet era, I figured everything would be backwards, but there was progress. The poverty in the villages was somewhat disheartening. But it’s like that in every country, even in a rich country like America. Karabakh impressed me the most,” said Doris in her colloquial western Armenian.
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, Marie L. Yovanovitch, will be leaving Armenia at the end of her three year appointment in June.
Almost half of all respondents, 47.2%, said their overall social-economic situation had worsened over the past year.
Recent rains cause extensive damage to fruit orchards
Noragavit residents say it's a way for priest to make money and they don't like it
Aysha’s passport identifies her as a Turk by nationality but Armenian blood flows through her veins. Her great-grandfather was an Armenian from Mardin. His son was the only survivor of the family.
Alis Kasaryan was born in western Armenia in 1909. She repatriated to Armenia in 1947, along with thousands of others.
Human Rights Watch Concerned About Assault on Armenian Media
My parents were in the States and they were getting on in years. They missed their grandkids. It was a major reason why I moved back. Then too, while I had thought about staying on in Armenia and becoming a priest, I had disagreements with the Catholics. I decided to seek my future elsewhere.
Around 100 residents of the Gai village in Armavir are protesting their alleged electricity bills by marching to the square in Etchmiadzin. They say they have paid their bills on time and show the receipts as proof.
At yesterday’s parliament session, former RA Minister of Culture Tamar Poghosyan continued to voice her criticism about the performance of Ministry of Diaspora staffers, alleging that some have embezzled funds.
Village of Baghramyan Remembers a Glorious Agrarian Past Residents of Baghramyan village plowed up their grapevines in the early 1990’s to protest the fact that local factories hadn’t paid them for their produce. Grapes were the main livelihood for ...
Raffi Hovannisian, Armenia’s first Foreign Minister and the leader of the Heritage (Zharangutyun) Party has declared a "fast for freedom" given the crisis stage that Armenia now finds itself in. Mr. Hovannisian said he will be carrying out his hunger ...
Local mayor reluctant to talk about problems Pupils attending the high school in the Armavir community of Lousagyugh have come up with way to stay warm in class. Along with their school books, the kids bring along sheepskins to sit on. One of the pupils ...
Heritage Party MP Anahit Bakhshyan is still in hospital after becoming ill during a scuffle this morning with police in front of the Government Building in Yerevan. Fellow Heritage MP Zaruhie Postanjyan reports that Bakhshyan’s blood pressure is high ...
Heritage Party MP Stepan Safaryan has told Hetq that it will not renounce its seats in Armenia’s National Assembly, deciding that such a move wouldn’t be appropriate at this time. Rumors were abuzz that Heritage might decide to do so after party leader ...
True to form, public transportation into Yerevan has been reported severely curtailed in an effort to prevent people from attending the scheduled HAK opposition political rally later today on the grounds of the Matenadaran. People from outlying regions ...
Salaries and expense allowances for legislative inaction According to the line in the 2010 RA Budget dealing with “financial social benefits”, 23.58 million AMD was allocated to Armenia’s parliament. At first glance, one might think that the 131 ...
According to our sources present at yesterday’s festivities jointly celebrated by the three parties in the ruling government coalition, President Serzh Sargsyan clearly stated that many in attendance would have been facing a "hard time" if not for the fact ...
If you’re a reporter like me, trying to find MP Samvel Aleksanyan seems like an unobtainable task. I’ve been trying to track down the elusive MP for about one month now to no avail. He’s never answered any of my innumerable phone calls. That is till ...
Mayoral elections in four Armavir villages – Geghakert, Tzaghkounk, Dasht, Lernamerdz – took place yesterday. In three of the four, the only candidates running were the mayors in office and all were re-elected. In Geghakert, independent Mayor Seryozha ...
MP Ayvazyan doesn’t deny he has a stake MP Vardan Ayvazyan has neither denied nor verified his involvement in the sale of 35% of Bounty Resources Armenia stock to the Chinese company Fortune Oil on January 12, Hetq covered the major sale of mining ...
Reporters gathered at today’s press briefing at the RA National Assembly were especially on the lookout for members of the Prosperous Armenia Party. The party convenes its convention tomorrow. Not surprisingly, the PAP MP’s never showed up at the briefing. ...
During a speech today in the RA National Assembly, ARF MP Artzvik Minasyan, turned his attention to what he described as an unacceptable situation in the town of Ijevan where Mayor Varuzhan Nersisyan struts around like a khan of old MP Minasyan used to ...
Dissenters Oppose Move to Join Prosperous Armenia Party A group of about 100 dissenters from the ranks of the Armenia Youth Party, in a sign of protest over the decision to merge with the Prosperous Armenia Party, say that will go it alone and continue ...
I wanted to find out what "moral damage" had MP Ruben Hayrapetyan actually sustained to make him take the daily newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak to court. So I called him up and told him who I was. What’s your paper? There’s a new paper coming out every ...
To say that certain Prosperous Armenian Party MP’s appear to have a phobia about meeting with reporters on the eve of the party’s convention on February 12, is no understatement. It’s as if they believe that members of the press have ulterior and underhanded ...
Today, members of Armenia’s delegation to PACE, the deliberative body of the Council of Europe, were invited to a press conference at the National Assembly. At the conference Prosperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zohrabyan charged Turkey with succumbing to ...
Villagers Forced to Heat Their Homes with Dung Inhabitants of the village of Aragatzavan, located on the Armenian-Turkish border in Aragatzotn Marz, have given up hope of ever seeing the blue flames of natural gas flicker in their homes. Villagers make ...
Republican Party spokesman Edward Sharmazanov said today that he sees nothing unusual in the recent union of the Armenia’s Progressive Party with the Prosperous Armenia Party, even if the move came right before the latter’s party convention. "It’s ...
Vova Sahakyan, who heads the #26 Election District Commission in Charentsavan, told Hetq that his office hadn’t received any petitions contesting the recent mayoral election in the town. The deadline for such submissions was 2pm today. Hours earlier, ...
Government cuts needed development funding Despite the fact that the Information technology sector was proclaimed to be of primary importance, state funds have recently been cut. For the fiscal year 2010-2011, 80 million AMD will be allocated. This compares ...
Yesterday, Tigran Karapetyan, President of Armenia’s People’s Party, said that he was ready to collaborate with everyone as long as it was on a level playing field. The businessman turned politician also issued an ultimatum to the government – meet my ...
Karapetyan says HAK feels threatened byhis huge turnouts Today is the final day of broadcasting for Tigran Karapetyan’s ALM TV station. At yesterday’s public rally in Yerevan Karapetyan, President of the People’s Party, said that the government ...
In the lead-up to the Prosperous Armenia Party convention scheduled for February 12, MP Samvel Balasanyan, a party member and National Assembly Deputy Speaker, can be found vacationing in the holy city of Jerusalem. The MP has been in Jerusalem since January ...
At its upcoming January 22 convention, Armenia’s Progressive Party is expected to dissolve and unite with Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP). Another Armenian party that has decided to merge with the PAP is the Armenian Youth Party. It ...
Young scientists call for government backing of robotics 38 nations have entered the Robotics Global Competition that will take place in the United States this April 7. Armenia has never entered such a scientific competition. Some young Armenians want ...
Inflation appears to be issue #1 We asked several Armenian MP’s with an economics background to summarize the economic situation in Armenia for 2010 and to offer predictions for the coming year. Here’s what they had to say. Gagik Minasyan (Republic ...
Yesterday, Armenia’s Rule of Law Party, a junior government coalition partner, recalled Gerasim Alaverdyan as RA Minister of Agriculture. Party press secretary Sousanna Abrahamyan told Hetq that Artur Baghdasaryan, Chairman of the Rule of Law Party had ...
MP’s born under this Chinese zodiac contemplate the implications According to the Chinese traditional calendar, the Year of the Rabbit will be officially launched on February 3, 2011. There are eight Armenian MP also celebrating birthdays in such “Rabbit ...
National Assembly Deputy President Samvel Nikoyan disagrees that the government is trying to push through legislation it favors without adequate public debate. "I don’t see such a thing happening. About 70% of the programs we are talking about have ...
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