Anna Hakobyan, spouse of the Armenian prime minister, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of My Step and City of Smile charitable foundations, gave an interview to ARMENPRESS, talking about the activities of these foundations, her foreign trips, activities within Armenia and peace campaigns, as well as criticisms and appreciations addressed to her.
Criminal Court of Appeals Judge Mkhitar Papoyan disqualified himself from presiding over a hearing concerning ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s jailing, approving prosecutor Gevorg Baghdasaryan’s recusal motion.
It had taken a long time before Alan visited Armenia for the first time in 2005. Since Alan was the grandson of a genocide survivor and involved in genocide studies, he had made multiple attempts to visit Armenia. After four unsuccessful attempts from the early 1960s to early 2000s, he finally visited Armenia for the first time in 2005. “That was a remarkable trip in terms of my expectations and experience,” says Alan about his first visit. It was the beginning of a decade of annual visits to Armenia. “Following that initial trip, I visited Armenia each year for five weeks. Each visit was like a new chapter of an epic book, as I got to know more people and I increasingly understood the great complexity and fascinating aspects of Armenian history and society”.
8 suspects, including 6 customs officials, are under arrest on suspicion of running a contraband smuggling syndicate, the State Revenue Committee’s Department of Investigations said.
Deputy defense minister of Armenia Gabriel Balayan doesn’t rule out corruption manifestations in the defense sector, but is confident that a lot has changed in the system.
The decision to abolish visa requirements of Qatar for the citizens of Armenia has officially entered into force on December 8.
In recent days no tension has been recorded on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, Deputy defense minister of Armenia Gabriel Balayan told reporters.
There is no systematic corruption in Armenia, but this doesn’t mean that there are no corruption phenomena in the country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his remarks at a conference organized by Transparency International on the International Anti-Corruption Day in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has weighed in on the comments around the criminal charge pressed against former President Serzh Sargsyan.
Gas price will not increase in Armenia until April 1, 2020, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan told reporters.
