According to initial reports, at 16:20, January 26, Cadet Sargis Apinyan, a conscript, drastically fell ill in the drill-grounds of the military base. At 17:35 Apinyan was pronounced dead after the medical personnel’s attempts to save him.
“Speaking laconically, I have not welcomed Gagik Tsarukyan’s return to politics,” Serzh Sargsyan. President of Armenia and Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), told at the Council meeting of the party on January 26.
Armenian-Russian investment fund will be launched within the framework of agreements reached in Russia. To that end at the Government session PM Karen Karapetyan gave certain instructions to Suren Karayan, Minister of Economic Development and Investments, from which: present monthly reports about the carried out works.
At the end of the meeting, over three dozen Armenian businessmen in Russia issued a statement about their readiness to participate in the business projects and initiatives of the Government of Armenia.
“I have made one of the most important and difficult decisions of my life and I announce that I stop my membership to the Republican Party of Armenia. I have thought quite long on making this decision. Frankly, it was not an easy decision for me since I have devoted significant part of my life to the party, nearly two decades.”
On January 25, at 08:50 the body of Private Shavarsh Galstyan was discovered in the territory of an unspecified military position of the Defense Ministry. The body had a gunshot wound to the jaw.
The Armenia-Iran and Armenia-Georgia power transmission lines will be commissioned in 2019, which will raise Armenia’s energy system to an entirely new level. The abovementioned programs will enable electricity transits, seasonal mutual supplies and exchanges, as well as other commercial transactions,” Serzh Sargsyan said.
“We observe extra-Syrian powers, which have their own interests and attempt to bring their interests and goals into life. Those contrasts have so deepened, actors are so different, their interests are so diverse that I’m not optimistic regarding the results at this stage. Just the contrary, contrasts more deepen with time.”
“The current issue is that he has many supporters, who like his this idea, and the other part of the society doesn’t like, as a result of which the country has been divided into two parts, and it isn’t clear what the developments are going to be like,” Harut Sassounian said.
“This issue has always been under his control, throughout these years Armenia-Turkey relations have been influenced by the policy pursued by Erdogan, thus, I consider results of the forthcoming elections won’t influence on Armenia-Turkey relations.”
