Category: 2018

Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan will be on vacation on January 8-12, which he will spend abroad, the Press Office of the Prime Minister.

15.11 The participants of the action found out that the ban of stock-taking prohibition of the cars with right wheels was removed. They announced that the point had not been in their demand. They said that the thing announced by the participants was against the Constitution, so it could be not considered as an achievement.

The main goal of the participants is to remove the ban on the right-hand drive.

The members of the initiative stated that they had come to meet with the Prime Minister and to discuss those issues with him, as he was on vacation, they were ready to meet with  the Vice Prime Minister; the participants gave them half an hour to receive them.

Shortly afterward, Alexander Ghazaryan, Head of the Letters and Complaints Department, approached them. The participants asked if he was the official who had to accept the demonstrators after the Prime Minister and cancel or pass the bill. The government official announced that nevertheless the bill was going to pass.

The demonstrators decided to discuss whether they would continue the discussions with the official or not.

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The participants of the “Right-hand drive” initiative are holding a demonstration in front of the Government building. They came to meet with the Prime Minister, but another Government official received them.

The action participants demanded to speak according to the statistical data. The Government representative suggested continuing meetings and discussions. The participants thanked the official and said that they would consider whether to continue the action or not.

The action continues.

Work routine should be prepared in advance, instead of waking up after holidays and remembering that you have to go to work, said Kachatur Gasparyan, Head of the Department of Psychology of Yerevan State Medical University. He also assessed positively the government’s decision, according to which we learned one year ago that since the next year we will have only three day holidays. In general, the psychologist was concerned about the fact that we do not fully perceive the spiritual value of the holidays.

“Our nation, both when happy and sad, tries to do everything by oral means: eating. Even during sad events we use so much food that it is both awful and surprising for a representative of other country where people also die. I have lived in the USA and England. Their modesty attracted me: when you visit them there are small cookies and sandwiches on their tables,” said the psychologist.

Khachatur Gasparyan also spoke about stress today. He said that stress was divided into two groups: positive and negative. For example, positive stress is when a child is born, holidays are coming, salary rises.

“Stress is our friend for life, it’s the flavor of life. When one does not have any kind of stress then he is probably dead,” said Khachatur Gasparyan.

At the same time he expressed an opinion that if a person did not return to his/her work with pleasure after holidays, it meant that he/she should review his/her lifestyle. “If we do not get pleasure from work, more than half of our lives goes through stress and negative emotions,” concluded the psychologist.

Armenian men’s 78th and women’s 73rd championships will be held in Yerevan on January 11-23, 2018, at Tigran Petrosyan Chess House. The official website of the Armenian Chess Federation reports.

Solemn opening ceremonies will take place on January 11, at 15:00. The games of the first round will kick off on January 12, at 15:00. The tournament will be round-robin.

Men’s and women’s chief referees are the international referees Ashot Vardapetyan and Julieta Nahatakyan, respectfully.

By the way, women’s championship participants are already known. Among them are three members of the Armenian team: Maria Kursova, Lilit Galoyan and Maria Gevorgyan. International masters Anna Hayrapetyan, Siranush Ghukasyan, Sona Asatryan, MV candidates Mariam Mkrtchyan, Anna Sargsyan, Susanna Gaboyan and Nare Arakelyan will also compete for the medals.

Suleiman Soylu, Turkish Interior Minister, spoke about the course of construction work on the border with Iran, as well as the security measures to be taken at the border with Armenia and Georgia.

According to “Borsagundem” news site, Suleiman Soylu said that at present, almost half of the 144-kilometer wall was built on the Turkish-Iranian border. The Minister emphasized that the wall should prevent illegal crossing, as well as the entrance of terrorists into their country.

Speaking about the security measures to be carried out at the Armenian-Turkish and Turkish-Georgian border, he said that Turkey was going to install electronic systems there.

“I think we will take similar measures in Ardahan during one or two months. At this moment we are not building a wall there, we will only install new electronic systems there.”

To remind, Turkey has begun testing the cameras installed earlier in the Kars state border of the Armenian-Turkish border.

On January 11, the European Court of Human Rights will announce another verdict against the Republic of Armenia.

The applicant is Alexander Arzumanyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Kingdom of Denmark, who filed a lawsuit before his appointment .He was appointed Ambassador to Armenia in 2017.

Alexander Arzumanyan, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and leader of the Civil Disobedience Movement, appealed to the fact that he had been detained for alleged “money laundering.”

Alexander Arzumanyan was arrested in May 2007 and detained on suspicion of legalization of illegal income.

The courts ordered his detention on the grounds of the gravity of the offence and the risk of his absconding, obstructing justice or reoffending.

They then repeatedly extended his detention on similar grounds, despite Mr Arzumanyan’s objections, until his release in September on an undertaking not to leave his residence.

Relying on Article 5 § 3 (right to liberty and security / entitlement to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial), Mr Arzumanyan complains that the domestic courts failed to sufficiently justify his detention.

It should be reminded that in 2007 the National Security Service of Armenia stated that “Vahan Shirkhanyan and Alexander Arzumanyan were in Moscow and ,coming to an agreemet with Levon Markos, the citizen of Russia, who was wanted for financial fraud since 2005, transfered a suspicious amount of money to Armenia.”

Alexander Arzumanyan does not accept the accusation.

 The call-up has kicked off. This is my army. head of the Joint Staff helps a soldier put on his boots, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, Defense Minister Speaker wrote on his Facebook page.

Even though Armenians, welcoming the New Year, do not have new expectations, they still hope that everything will be fine.

Some citizens think that having expectations for the better is wrong as nothing will change, rise in prices have always existed.

However, the citizens are responding positively to the reduction of holidays. They think that we have a lot of holidays in our country. People do not have money to enjoy the holidays.

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On January 7, at 3.10 pm, the Arabkir Police Department received a report from the hospital that  Mariam G., born in 1987, and Lyova G., born in 1952, were transferred to the medical clinic in Arabkir, diagnosed with “Carbon monoxide poisoning.”

On the same day, at 4.00 pm, the police received a report from the hospital, according to which Elisa Kh., born in 2011, and Mark Kh., 2014, were taken to the medical clinic from the same address.

The operative group found that their health was bad due to the use of old food.

Examination is underway.

In 2017, “Peace Dialogue” NGO became aware of 59 deaths recorded in the RA Armed Forces and NKR Defense Army. 25 cases were registered in Armenia, and 34 cases in NKR territory.

6 cases of murder, 8 suicides, 22 violations of ceasefire regime, 9 cases of accidents, 3cases of negligence, 3 cases of health problems and 3 cases of safety rules have been registered. And the deaths of five servicemen are still unknown. Causes of deaths are presented below

Names of the servicemen and the whole article is available here