Tuesday, December 17 2013 15:07
Vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament, press-secretary of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, Edward Sharmazanov, thinks that the xenophobic policy conducted by Baku damages itself first of all. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:48
Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/ Ukraine/ Eurasia, will visit Armenia on December 18-19. The press service of the U.S. Embassy in Armenia reports that Dr. Farkas is going to meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:46
The collection of accumulative payment forced by the law, and its transference to the private pension fund is illegal and contrary to the 45th clause of Armenia's Constitution. It breaks the right for property guaranteed by the Constitution, the statement by the ARFD says. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:45
The Administrative Court of Armenia declined on Tuesday a claim by Let's Stop Rise in Gas Price action group to declare invalid the Public Service Regulatory Committee's decision to raise the gas and electric power tariffs. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:44
ArmenTel (Beeline trademark) has launched projects to install a telephone system in Tsaghkahovit community of Aragatsotn region and to digitize the telephone network of the town of Akhtala in Lori region. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:43
The problems in Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are affecting the security situation in the South Caucasus, Director of the Russian Center for Socio- Political Studies Vladimir Yevseyev told journalists in Yerevan on Tuesday. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:42
From the poundage point of view, Azerbaijan is a more beneficial partner for us within the Customs Union than Armenia, Director of the Centre for European Integration Problems (Minsk), Yuri Shevtsov, said at today's press-conference in Yerevan. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:41
Gazprom OJSC has received the right for sole gas supplies to Armenia until 2043, opposition MP Alexander Arzumanyan said during the Dec 17 parliamentary hearings. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:39
Parliamentary opposition in Armenia urges people to fight the mandatory accumulative pension system till the very end. Representatives of the Armenian National Congress, Heritage, Prosperous Armenia and ARFD parties factions in the parliament along with the members of the Public Interest Group "Against Mandatory Pension Payments" marched from the Liberty Square to the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia earlier today and demanded the CC to recognize the parliament-passed law on the mandatory pension payments as unconstitutional. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:38
Iran's presence in the South Caucasus security system is a necessity, Executive Director of PolitContact Center for Political Technologies (Moscow) Andrey Medvedev told journalists in Yerevan on Tuesday. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 14:37
Increase of the releases from Sevan may cause seismic risks and water quality impairment. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 09:20
A new Code of Criminal Procedure of Armenia will help significantly unload the country's penitentiaries, Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan told media after discussions on the new draft code developed by the working group of the Justice Ministry with participation of representatives of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 09:14
Armenia's new Code of Criminal Procedure will make it possible both to provide protection of defendants' rights and guarantee the work of investigative agencies, US Ambassador John Heffern said at the roundtable dedicated to the new draft code, drawn out jointly by the working group of Armenia's Justice Ministry, the GIZ, US Embassy and OSCE Yerevan office. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 08:10
Haypost has released a postcard dedicated to the 80th year of civil aviation in Armenia. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 08:09
Artur Sakunts, the head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office, recalled that president gave no explanations regarding his move. "We must state the president presented no justification of his unanimously made decision to join Customs Union on September 3. There is no explanation why we must join Customs Union", - Artur Sakunts said during the public discussion "After Vilnius: Confronting the Challenges and Identifying the Hidden Opportunities Ahead" held in Yerevan today. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 08:06
Iranian gas can become a favorable alternative to the Russian gas, if the Armenian authorities finally start negotiating on the given issue with Iran, Rubik Minasyan, an Iranian journalist, Armenian by origin, told media in Yerevan, Monday. He said that Iran has repeatedly expressed its readiness to supply gas for a lower tariff, but the Armenian authorities keep ignoring the given proposal. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 08:04
Azerbaijan's joining the Customs Union is very much important to Russia and Nagornyy Karabakh will be the price of Azerbaijan's joining the Customs Union, political expert, Stepan Grigoryan, said during the public debates "After Vilnius: Confronting the Challenges and Identifying the Hidden Opportunities Ahead" held in Yerevan, 16 December. |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 07:57
Environmentalists raise alarm: construction of the North-South transport corridor will damage 81% of fruit trees in Artashat community. Head of EcoLur NGO Inga Zarafyan told ArmInfo. >>> |
Tuesday, December 17 2013 07:55
The European Union intends to continue making reforms in Armenia, it is very much important to EU, Lithuania's Ambassador to Armenia, Erikas Petrikas, told journalists today. >>> |
Monday, December 16 2013 09:42
Elected through non-transparent elections, the authorities of Armenia are not accountable to the public, said Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Director of Transparency International Armenia Anti-Corruption Center, introducing the second National Integrity System assessment of Armenia, Monday. >>> |