“He has been busy with this for already 100 years with the authorities, he is good at it, as he interests and satisfies a wide layer of Russian society, however, it has nothing to do with the official policy by the Kremlin, as Zhirinovsky simply solves other issue for himself and that layer of the society,” Dubnov said.
In particular, Artsvik Minasyan, RA Minister of Economy, told reporters on July 15 that besides official data, Ministry of Economy also implements internal monitoring and introduced some data from the results of that monitoring. Ministry of Economy on the basis of the semester recorded 10% growth for industry, however, 8.9% growth was observed. 20% growth was anticipated for mining, however, it reduced to 18.8%.
“With this step Armenia, in fact, Armenia clearly sends a signal, that in the field of energy it won’t be satisfied only with the role of transmitting high-voltage electricity channel, but through cooperation with neighbor and friend Iran it’ll not only raise our energy security but, will considerably improve Armenia’s geopolitical positions in international arena as well.”
And prior to that the society will continue asking why Gevorg Kostanyan and not Vladimir Gasparyan? The Police Chief should have already resigned not only due to atrocities of July 29, but, first and foremost, for the reason that the police precinct seized on July 17 is under his control. However, the Police Chief not only doesn’t submit resignation, but actively implements cadre changes, seemingly to show, that nothing has happened and he continues the same “cadre lego game,” by which he’s been busy since he’s been appointed a Police Chief.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on dismissing Hrant Yepiskoposyan from the post of First Deputy Director of the National Security Service of Armenia.
Prosecutor General of Armenia Gevorg Kostanyan informed the Board members that due to healthcare problems he asked the Armenian President to accept his resignation from the post of Prosecutor General of Armenia, Prosecutor General’s press secretary Khristine Melkonyan wrote on Facebook: “Dear colleagues, Please be informed that today the Board’s session has been held in the Prosecutor General’s Office led by Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan. He informed the Board members that due to healthcare problems he asked the Armenian President to accept his resignation from the Prosecutor General’s post.
On August 4 at 09:30, a soldier Vahan V. Mikayelyan, born in 1997, received fatal wounds in the conservation area of a military unit located in the northern direction of the NKR Defense Army. The details of the case are still unknown. An investigation is underway to clarify the details.
“Her-her” HPP with the capacity of 1.2 MW is within the company. Yolyan stated that it’s allowed to RA Minister of Defense as a person exercising liabilities of sole shareholder of Vorotan Hydropower Cascade, to make the decision of selling the property with the total amount of AMD 67938,264 to “Arm-Aero” CJSC.
OSCE representative on freedom of the media Dunja Mijatović wrote to Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian indicating that the government “should implement practical steps to ensure restraint on the part of law enforcement representatives toward members of the media” to guarantee that the press is not targeted by the police or thugs. “The police should be protecting journalists and members of the media,” she added.
“This also speaks of the fact, that conditionally said, Schroeder Effect is rather effective in Europe, i.e. there are a lot of politicians, who are ready to support Russian plans, naturally, not without expectations. That’s why we have such a situation, when for any other gas, in particular, in this case we are discussing Iranian gas, it’ll be difficult to overcome that obstacle and enter European market.”
