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TIME TO CHOOSE: POLLS OPEN IN ARMENIAN CAPITAL FOR FIRST ELECTED ASSEMBLY SINCE 1995
Suren Musayelyan
Polling stations across Yerevan opened on Sunday morning (8.00 am) for an estimated 771,000 eligible voters to cast their ballots in the capital’s first municipal elections in nearly two decades. (Since ...CAPITAL DECISION 2009: OPPOSITION CITES FRAUD, RULING PARTIES SAYS ALL IS NORMAL AS VOTING FOR CITY COUNCIL IS UNDERWAY
As Yerevan elects a City Council today, reports on the process are familiar, with widespread allegations of fraud. But, like the five parties and one bloc vying for leadership of the city against the ...MIDWAY THROUGH: HIGH VOTER TURNOUT AMID REPORTED BUSSING OF PEOPLE FROM PROVINCES
Gayane Abrahamyan
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported a 29.36 percent voter turnout (as of 2.00 pm) in the ongoing City Council elections in Yerevan. CEC spokesperson Tatevik Ohanyan told ArmeniaNow the ...RIVAL PRO-ESTABLISHMENT CAMPS DENY SHOOTING INCIDENT
Gayane AbrahamyanAccording to a Human Rights Awareness phone line call, a shooting took place in one of Yerevan’s voting districts today. Although dozens of law enforcement have been dispatched to the scene, they claim ...CAPITAL DECISION 2009: ANOTHER VOTE, ANOTHER DAY OF DIRTY POLITICS
As voting polls close on another Armenian election, accounts of election violations during the Yerevan City Council election have dominated the day, but are likely to have little influence on the outcome. ...DECISION-2009 REACHED: EARLY RESULTS IN YEREVAN ELECTIONS SHOW RULING PARTY’S LANDSLIDE
Suren Musayelyan
Preliminary results emerging from Sunday’s vote in the Yerevan City Council elections show that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia has swept the election and will have its top candidate as the Armenian ...A STEP FORWARD: INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS SAY YEREVAN ELECTION UP TO EUROPEAN STANDARDS
Gayane Abrahamyan
A small group of international observers have given mostly positive assessments to the Sunday elections to the Yerevan City Council, saying they have mainly corresponded to European standards. Fifteen ...OUTSIDERS: AS THE WINNER CELEBRATES, LOSERS LOOK BACK CRITICALLY AT YEREVAN ELECTION CONDUCT
Sara Khojoyan
Leaders of the political parties that failed to make it to the Yerevan City Council have given only negative assessments of the election process in the capital’s vote on Sunday. According to the preliminary ...A NEW TWIST IN YEREVAN ELECTIONS: OPPOSITION REFUSES MANDATES IN CITY COUNCIL
Gayane Abrahamyan 11
Citing a “disgraceful” election Armenia’s main opposition declared late on Monday that they refuse to pick their earned mandates in the City Council of Yerevan. “The Armenian National Congress is not ...VAZGEN MANUKYAN APPOINTED TO LEAD PUBLIC COUNCIL
President Serzh Sargsyan late last week signed a decree appointing Vazgen Manukyan, the leader of the National-Democratic Union, Chairman of the recently established Public Council. By his May 29 decree, ...PRESIDENT SARGSYAN HOLDS CONSULTATIONS ON POSSIBLE AMNESTY
President Serzh Sargsyan on Tuesday held consultations with the participation of senior representatives of law-enforcement structures on the subject of the proposal of declaring an amnesty in Armenia, ...PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE: TWO ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ELECTORAL FRAUD
The Prosecutor-General’s Office on Tuesday announced that two people had been arrested on suspicion of committing electoral fraud in the course of the elections to the Yerevan municipal assembly held ...GLOBAL BAROMETER: SURVEY SHOWS JUDICIARY PERCEIVED AS MOST CORRUPT SECTOR IN ARMENIA
Suren Musayelyan
Judiciary is perceived as the single most corrupt institution in Armenia, followed by public officials and civil servants as well as parliament, according to the latest report released by a global anti-graft ...SPORT: ARMENIA U-21 SOCCER TEAM TO PLAY SWISS, TURKISH COEVALS IN EURO-2011 QUALIFIERS
Suren Musayelyan
Soccer Armenia’s U-21 National Team were in training in Yerevan June 1-4 before leaving for Switzerland where they will play that country’s team as part of 2011 Europe U-21 Championship qualification ...EMO IN YEREVAN: ECCENTRIC AND EMOTIONAL TEENAGERS CHALLENGE SOCIETY
Siranuysh Gevorgyan
When Argam and Nelly walk along the street together, many passers-by turn around to check them out. The teenagers dressed in black and pink attract attention with their haircuts with a front fringe closing ...DOUBLE MOVE OVER TEGHUT: WHAT ARE THE FORMER AND CURRENT FIRST LADIES OF ARMENIA AGAINST?
Karine Ionesyan
Armenia’s former and current first ladies made environmentalists happy by effectively joining their longstanding campaign against a major industry project that conservationists say has a damaging environmental ...WEATHERING THE STORM: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARMENIA’S EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS
Of the many negatives effects on Armenia from the global economic crisis, one of the most significant long-term obstacles for the economic development of Armenia relates to the impact on the country’s ...EYE WITNESS REPORT: DANGERS AND DISAPPOINTMENT ON ELECTION DAY
Gayane Mkrtchyan
I’m not as mysterious as I look, behind my huge, black sunglasses. This week I grew weary of explaining to anyone who asked that I injured my eye while fulfilling my journalistic duties. “Do not tell ...VITAL CONCERNS: IMPACT OF IODINE DEFICIENCY STILL FELT IN [OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED] IODINE DEFICIENCY-FREE ARMENIA
Gayane Mkrtchyan
The issue of shortage of iodine in water is considered a serious problem in Armenia, which, as a landlocked mountainous country, far from oceans and seas, is in the risk zone of IDD development (Iodine ...ANTI-CRISIS SMELL: BUSINESSMAN IN VANADZOR SETS UP GARLIC POWDER PRODUCTION
Naira Bulghadaryan
The first amount of garlic powder produced in Vanadzor was successfully consumed in the domestic and international markets, encouraging the producers to double the production of that piquant spice. (The ...FIRST TIME FOR SOME THINGS: CITY COUNCIL ELECTION AFTERMATH UNIQUE
Gayane Abrahamyan
Yerevan City Council Elections proved no different from previous votes in terms of apparent fraud. Post-election developments, however, are proving unique. The first surprise was the oppositional Armenian ...VIOLATION TECHNIQUES: EPISODES FROM THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN YEREVAN
Karine Ionesyan
Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan were held with minor violations, according to the Central Electoral Commission, while the monitoring organizations came up with negative evaluations of the process, ...WINNER TAKES ALL: COALITION “HEAVYWEIGHTS” TO TAKE CHARGE OF YEREVAN AS OPPOSITION WITHDRAWS IN PROTEST OF “DISGRACEFUL” VOTE
Sara Khojoyan
The process and results of the first Yerevan municipal elections satisfy only two out of six political parties and one bloc that ran for the body – the ones that will share between themselves 52 seats ...ONE STEP: CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE APPROVES GENOCIDE AWARENESS ACT
The California State Senate June 3 passed Senate Bill 234, the “Genocide Awareness Act”. On April 29, the Senate Education Committee voted unanimously in favor of SB 234, the “Genocide Awareness Act”. ...BUSINESS OR OFFICE?: SKEPTICISM LINGERS OVER GOVERNMENT MOVE TO ENFORCE EITHER/OR CHOICE FOR OFFICIALS
Sara Khojoyan
A recent government initiative to take a harder line on business owning officials in Armenia has drawn a familiar chorus of skepticism, with some experts branding it as populist and even ridiculous because ...TALKING TALKS?: ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN IN FRESH SUMMIT ON KARABAKH
Aris Ghazinyan
Armenia and Azerbaijan announced no breakthrough but said they agreed to continue negotiations to find a solution to the longstanding Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, an international mediator announced after ...
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