Satenik Kaghzvantsian

Ստեղծվել է Satenik Kaghzvantsian

• Հուլիս 09, 2010

  Armenian Government Moves To Boost Wheat Output

  The government pledged on Thursday to ease Armenia’s heavy dependence wheat imports in the next few years by supplying local farmers with new sorts of seeds meant to boost their yields.

• Մայիս 25, 2010

  Armenian Opposition Holds Rally in Gyumri

  Members of Armenia’s main opposition alliance held a public rally in the country’s second largest city of Gyumri on Monday during which they again denounced the policies of the current government and called for snap elections.

• Մայիս 22, 2010

  New Armenian Governor Warns Media

  A former high-ranking police official threatened to shun journalists “distorting” his statements as he took over as governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province on Friday.

• Մայիս 19, 2010

  Armenian Tycoon Urges High Voter Turnout

  Gagik Tsarukian, an influential businessman leading Armenia’s second largest governing party, urged voters to more actively participate in the next national elections on Tuesday as he sought to drum up greater public support in the northwestern Shirak region.

• Ապրիլ 25, 2010

  First-Ever Commemoration Of 1915 Slaughter In Turkey

  About 100 Turks rallied in Istanbul on Saturday in a first-ever public commemoration of the World War One-era mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey that was organized by a local human rights group.

• Ապրիլ 16, 2010

  More Government Loyalists Join Armenian Veterans Union

  A once powerful organization uniting thousands of Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war has further underscored its loyalty to President Serzh Sarkisian by admitting senior government figures into its ranks in at least one Armenian region.

• Ապրիլ 10, 2010

  Independent TV In New Dispute With Government

  An independent television station based in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri alleged a fresh government attempt to force it off the air on Friday after tax authorities froze its assets and bank accounts over allegedly unpaid taxes.

• Փետրվար 18, 2010

  Cab drivers, gold traders in Armenia protest ‘tax pressures’

  Taxi drivers and gold trade workers held separate protests in Armenia on Thursday condemning what they see as unfair tax pressures threatening their further business operations.

• Դեկտեմբեր 24, 2009

  Sarkisian Slams Earthquake Zone Reconstruction

  President Serzh Sarkisian criticized on Wednesday the quality of the renewed reconstruction of Armenia’s northern regions devastated by the 1988 earthquake, which seems to be increasingly falling behind schedule.

• Դեկտեմբեր 09, 2009

  Armenian Tycoon Branches Out With Sugar Plant

  A government-connected entrepreneur who controls lucrative imports of basic foodstuffs to Armenia is poised to significantly step up his involvement in manufacturing with the ongoing construction of a major sugar plant in the northwestern Shirak region.

• Դեկտեմբեր 08, 2009

  Earthquake Zone Reconstruction ‘On Track’

  Officials insisted on Monday that the renewed reconstruction of regions devastated by the 1988 earthquake is going according to plan as Armenia marked the 21st anniversary of the calamity that killed 25,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of others homeless.

• Օգոստոս 13, 2009

  Armenian Policemen Jailed For ‘Bribery’

  Three police officers in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri were sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday on chargers of bribery which they strongly denied.

• Օգոստոս 08, 2009

  Opposition Youths Demand Activist’s Release

  Several dozen young supporters of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) marched to the Office of the Prosecutor-General in Yerevan on Friday to demand the release of a fellow activist who was arrested after distributing opposition leaflets last month.

• Հուլիս 18, 2009

  Gyumri Mayor’s Son Said To Be Involved In Another Local Shooting Incident

  Police in Armenia’s northwestern province of Shirak have detained a group of young men, among them the son of the controversial mayor of Gyumri, after a local villager was fired at on Thursday evening.

• Հունիս 24, 2009

  More Oppositionists Set Free

  Four more opposition members, including former Deputy Prosecutor-General Gagik Jahangirian, were released from prison on Tuesday in accordance with a general amnesty declared by the Armenian authorities.

• Հունիս 01, 2009

  Travel To Yerevan Again Blocked Ahead Of Opposition Rally

  Traveling to Yerevan from other parts of Armenia by public transport was all but impossible ahead of a fresh opposition rally held in the capital on Monday evening.

• Մայիս 31, 2009

  Hundreds Bused To Yerevan On Polling Day

  Hundreds of local government officials and other people were bused to Yerevan from Armenia’s second and third largest cities on Sunday in what the ruling Republican Party (HHK) called a show of support for its victory in the municipal elections in the capital.

• Մայիս 02, 2009

  Yerevan Roads Blocked Ahead Of Opposition Rally

  In what has become a pattern, the Armenian authorities again seriously restricted transport communication between Yerevan and the rest of the country ahead of an opposition rally in the capital on Friday.