She says that on February 12, 2014, Poghosyan, then Chief of the Kentron Department of the Yerevan Police, slapped her face while she was being detained for covering an Armenian National Congress (HAK) publicity event for the opposition newspaper Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun.
Samvel Hovhannisyan, a resident of Aghavnatoun, asked the minister if the country’s peasants would see a tangible difference between the current government and the past one.
Prior to this appointment, Aghajanyan worked at the Risk Management Division of HSBC Bank in Yerevan. From 2014-2017 he was engaged in private business.
Mirijanyan said that investigators will soon launch a series of probes into all aspects of the Etchmiadzin municipality’s activities.
Grigoryan addressed the crowd, mainly composed of municipal employees․
Scores of demonstrators have gathered in Etchmiadzin’s Komitas Square demanding the resignation of town mayor Karen Grigoryan.
Residents of Talvorik, a community close to the border with Turkey in Armenia’s Armavir Province, went to the polls yesterday to fill five municipal council seats.
644 of 1,028 eligible voters in Margara cast their ballots and a majority - 433 - voted for Yenokyan, thus ending the 22-year-term of the incumbent mayor.
On May 25, Masis Mayor Davit Hambardzumyan signed an 850,000-dram contract with Vardan Ghukasyan, the father of his assistant, to provide balloons, toys and ribbons for a June 1 celebration marking International Children’s Day in the town’s park.
The Yerevan Municipality has spent AMD 103.634 ($214,000) for flags and related services in 2017 and 2018.
Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed a €2.120 million contract with Agence Publics, an ESL&Network company, on April 14 to provide advice regarding the design and implementation of events surrounding 2018 La Francophonie Summit, to be held in Armenia this October, and organizing a concert to mark the 2,800th anniversary of Yerevan.
Yesterday’s flooding, caused by overloaded water runoff drains, was on the mind of most residents in Lernagog, a village in Armenia’s Armavir Province.
Metzamor Medical Center Director Mikayel Vanyan told Hetq that people started arriving yesterday evening at six with various complaints. By 8:30pm, 58 patients with food poisoning had been admitted.
Etchmiadzin Water Users Association (WUA) Director Vladik Hovsepyan resigned on May 15 after employees protested outside the WUA for two days straight, demanding their back wages.
But Manukyan never heard what the teachers had to say since she already had left the building. No one know where she had gone.
Residents are demanding to see the budgetary books for the past ten years and are accusing local officials of engaging in shady business dealings.
Employees of the "Etchmiadzin Water Users Association (WUA)” gathered again today in front of the head office and demanded their salaries.
Avetik Sahakyan says residents have frequently asked town officials to act in a more transparent manner and make Norakert’s financial books accessible.
Nearly 50 employees of Etchmiadzin Water Users Association gathered in front of Etchmiadzin precinct today to demand their wages. Employees claimed that they hadn’t been paid for months, some of them - even for two years.
While the spokesperson for the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has declared that it will become the “official opposition” to any government formed by newly-elected Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, some RPA mayors in Armavir Province have balked at the idea, and a few have resigned from the party.
“Sadly, there are still misconceptions and stereotypes regarding about the role that reporters play that make their work more difficult and not as productive as possible. Thus, it’s vital to uproot those public perceptions, with the presumption always being in favor of the reporter’s legal and respectful work,” Tatoyan says.
Teachers and students walked out of classes today in Etchmiadzin to protest yesterday’s National Assembly vote to reject Nikol Pashinyan’s bid to become the country’s next prime minister
A large crowd of people had gathered outside the Etchmiadzin Hospital after spotting a number of parked cars belonging to Manvel Grigoryan, a former Armenian Army general and currently a Republican Party of Armenia MP.
The principal of Etchmiadzin P.S.#2 locked the doors of the school today, forcing pupils inside to rush to the windows and voice their support for the strike.
Hundreds are marching in Etchmiadzin in opposition to Armenia’s current government, and, in particular, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan.
After debating via the internet whether marching through the street of their hometown was prudent, given that former General Manvel Grigoryan (a ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP) runs the area like his private fiefdom, students took to streets to voice their opposition to yesterday’s election of Serzh Sargsyan as Armenia’s new prime minister.
Rubik Vagharshakyan, one of the villagers, participated in the 1990s Artsakh War. He says that today's authorities are comfortably sitting in their chairs at the expense of people like himself.
Scores of young people from the towns of Armavir and Metsamor set off for Yerevan this morning to join the anti-Serzh Sargsyan protests taking place in the Armenian capital.
Bagaran has no drinking water, natural gas and public transportation. The cultural center is shut and the dirt streets lack night lights.
While Tamrazyan declared a mere AMD 7.093 million (US$14,700) in income, all in the form of wages, his cash holdings amounted to a whopping AMD 403.2 million, US$750,000, and €800,000.
Government bodies don’t seem to respond to the issue, and the community does not have the financial means to change the pipes on their own.
According to Babloyan’s 2017 financial disclosure, Yeritsyan purchased two properties for AMD 57 million (US$119,000) and another for AMD 61 million ($127,000).
The number of children has dropped so much that a part of the kindergarten building has been allocated by the city authorities to the State Committee of the Real Estate Cadastre.
The companies are to assess trash removal fees and monitor the payment of such fees for residents living in Yerevan’s Kentron, Arabkir, Nor Nork, Shengavit, Erebouni, Malatia-Sebastia, and Ajapnyak districts.
Deputy Chairman of the State Water Management Committee Volodya Narimanyan says that there are some 80 reservoirs in Armenia, with a total volume of 1.2 billion cubic meters. Eleven of them are relatively larger. As of February 13, eleven reservoirs are filled only with 229.97 million cubic meters of water - 30% of their total capacity.
The high school in the community of Parakar, just outside the Yerevan city limits, was in no shape to receive a wave of new students after the government decided to consolidate schools in the area.
During the discussion of the 2018 draft state budget in the Armenia’s National Assembly, the government has submitted a reference on the maximum number of official cars of state agencies. According to this reference, their number is going to be reduced by 41 in 2018, compared to the previous year, becoming 874 instead of 915.
Almost half of Armenia’s schools are in need of major renovation, this despite the fact that the government has sunk some AMD 42.450 billion (US$87.871million) in school construction/renovation projects in the past several years.
The Yerevan Municipality continues to pay the same company millions to take care of stray dogs in the Armenian capital.
The Armavir Administrative Court is set to hear the murder case of Manouk Simonyan, an advisor to the Armavir provincial governor, who was allegedly axed to death by his wife on July 22, 2017 while sleeping in his house.
Armavir Provincial Governor Ashot Ghahramanyan told Hetq that small private homes will be built near the border with Turkey “so that our compatriots from overseas can sip their morning coffee while gazing up at Mt. Ararat.”
Officials continue to claim that pretrial detention is vital, and the courts have taken up the call. Detaining those accused of crimes, even petty ones, has become the norm.
In the bidding for the contract, Tomeryan faced competition for only two items. Even then, it’s crystal clear that the competition, Vahagn Khachatryan, was more for show than anything else.
Hakob Hakaobyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly, has been roundly castigated for saying that inflation in Armenia would not affect the poor because they were in no position to purchase those goods anyway.
The cost of manning a security checkpoint outside the mayor’s office is 6.4 million drams. Manning three additional checkpoints throughout the building will cost 30.1 million drams.
Armenia’s Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Vahan Martirosyan, appointed more than a year ago, wants to build a hotel in Tsaghkadzor, a popular resort town in Kotayk Province.
Most parents of schoolchildren in Jrarbi, a village in Armenia’s Armavir Province, today gathered in front of the school, protesting conditions inside, and demanding the government pay attention to the issue.
The disclosures of four of these five civil servants reveal assets exceeding income by tens, if not hundreds, of factors.
Kamo Areyan has served as the first deputy mayor of Yerevan for 14 years, since 2003. He was also a deputy mayor in 1997-2001.
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