Former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan cast his ballot today in the 29/45 polling station in Dzoraghbyur – a village 10 kilometers east of Yerevan.
Nine political parties and two alliances are running for parliament.
The Court of Appeals has issued its verdict former President Robert Kocharyan’s trial over his measure of restraint.
The narrow format session was followed by an extended one. The session participants summed up the EAEU annual activities during Russia’s chairmanship, highlighted the key sectors for further deepening the Eurasian integration, such as trade, energy and digital agenda.
In the first ten months of 2018 trade turnover growth between Armenia and EEU countries has amounted 15% against the same period of 2017. In the same time period, export volumes of EEU countries grew more than 22%, while Armenia’s general exports volumes 11,7%.
According to the recent polls conducted in Armenia, 75.7% of voters say they will definitely participate in the December 9 early parliamentary elections, 14.6% say they will rather participate and 5.7% say they will not participate in the elections, Gallup International Association’s Armenia member MPG director Aram Navasardyan told reporters, presenting the results of the surveys conducted from December 1 to 4.
Armenia’s caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has reacted to the online leaking of a wiretapped audio recording of a phone conversation between himself and National Security Service director Artur Vanetsyan.
In the last days of the campaign ahead of the snap elections of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is currently on leave, reiterated statements on posing threats to their opponents through law-enforcement authorities, particularly the National Security Service (NSS) and the Police, and as we can see, the power structures have already taken action.
The SU-25 military jet that disappeared from radar screens this morning has crashed.
Ground control has lost contact with a military SU-25 aircraft that was conducting a scheduled training flight.