Yerevan City Council’s election campaign poses serious questions about its impartiality and independence that we keep hearing from May 17th. The campaign has not even finished, and each day presents new unexpected violations. In order to gain political capital, this election, that one may argue sets the tone for the upcoming national elections, must have unequivocally followed the rule of law.
Russia-based Azerbaijani billionaire businessman Telman Ismailov has been charged with the 2004 attempted kidnapping of pop singer Avraam Russo. Ismailov’s cousin Zaur Mardanov is also charged, Meydan reports.
All former presidents of Armenia: Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan will be invited to participate in the Independence Day celebrations, Chief of Staff of PM Nikol Pashinyan’s administration Eduard Aghajanyan told RFE/RL’s Armenian service – Azatutyun.
Head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Ms. Arpine Hovhannisyan has notified the monitoring committee of the institution on Azerbaijan’s cross-border gunfire at the Armenian village of Koti, the resulting civilian injury and the other shootings of several other Armenian civilian settlements.
A letter from Pope Francis was read at the conclusion of celebrations marking 300 years from the foundation of the Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation in its Monastery in Venice, Vatican News reports.
Armen Ashotyan writes on his Facebook page: “In an interview with Le Monde Nikol Pashinyan expressed opinion that elections of Yerevan city mayor will be unprecedented in the history of Armenia. A week is still left for the elections, but let me introduce current range of facts proving zero connection of PM’s statement with the […]
An Armenian citizen (pictured left) has been arrested in Istanbul in suspicion of robbing a currency exchange office, according to Vatan newspaper.
Yerevan’s chief architect Tigran Barseghyan has been fired.
During an ongoing OSCE high-level conference in Warsaw, the European Union’s new statement regarding the freedom of speech and freedom of assembly was issued.
A wildfire near the foothills of Mount Ararat in Turkey has spread due to strong winds on September 17, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
