Today Court of Appeal heard the claim of Raffi Hovhannissyan against the president of Armenia. Raffi Hovhannissyan, nominated as candidate for presidency but not registered because of caprice of Authorities, had claimed on declaring him as a citizen of Armenia since independence in 1991, under his application. He also demanded to call the president to account for display of idleness. Court of Appeal...

On February 28, the Memory Day of Sumgayit victims, a crowded march to Tsitsernakaberd took place in Yerevan . Representatives of power, politics, social organisations, intelligentsia, people, having seen Sumgayit genocide, participated in the march. There were placards and photos, criticising Sumgayit genocide, among the people. March participants laid flowers and wreaths on the khachkar in the...

The number of demands of 5 TV Companies to TV and Radio National Committee gradually increases. In the Court session on February 28 Karen Mejlumyan, the representative of the 5, filled in the claim statement introduced by him. Now Dar-21, CNN, Yerevan-TV, TV-5, Armen Akob TV Companies demanded Court to declare invalid TV and Radio Committee decision on fixing January 31 the day for opening the tender...

Footage of presidential elections in Armenia was shown on NTV Russian channel on February 26 during the newscast of 20:00. NTV-shown images became irrefutable evidence of a real amount of the opposition-staged rallies’ participants. Millions of the NTV viewers have been given an opportunity to see barbed wire stretched along Yerevan’s streets and thousands of marching protesters. Those Armenian viewers who missed this newscast didn’t manage...

Third hearing on 5 TV companies’ suit against Radio and Television National Commission is to be held on Friday at Economic Court. The commission delayed the broadcasting frequencies tender, which A1+ TV Company’s further fate is depend on, pending for court decision. It is expected that judge Khundkaryan will eventually make a decision at the Friday’s session. However, it isn’t ruled out...

Under the rumours spread, Authorities ceased “Tesankyun” /Standpoint/ program of “Centre” TV Company. TV watchers pay much attention to that program. It hasn’t broadcast for 2 days. Program author Gevorg Altnuyan disclaims the rumours, assuring program is not on air because of his illness . He added he asked for a 2-week holiday from TV Company leaders.

Recently the law-enforcement bodies use their smart as much as possible in order that advocates might not be able to carry out their professional duties before Courts if need be . As a result of such strategy, without participation of advocates, judges of Yerevan’ Courts hastily judged, reached verdicts over scores of Armenian citizens and instituted administrative proceedings against them. The...

Radio and Television National Commission declined Monday the motion filed by “Erevan”, “Dar 21”, TV 5”, “EV” and “Armenakob” TV companies on giving them back their tender packages. Grigor Amalyan, the head of the commission, justified his decision by saying A1+ and Noyan Tapan TV companies’ legitimate interests haven’t been taken in consideration in this motion. “In first case the companies demanded back only their tender...

On February 23 “A1+” TV Company held a voting on its web site – home.a1plus, www.home.a1plus, expecting to get impartial results over the rating of candidates. While carrying out this project, it was taken into account the circumstance that rating of “A1+” web site and number of readers increased during the last week. /by number of visits home.a1plus.am is the second among Armenian web sites after www.freenet.am/. It turns out it is...

58 voting papers were declared invalid in 40071 polling station, located in N 62 school of Yerevan. The reason for that is the voting papers were not marked by the pen of election centre, as Vazgen Manukyan’s proxy assures. By the way, 55 of them were voted for Stepan Demirchyan. Manukyan’s proxy was deprived of his right to calculate for having voted against that decision. There was disparity...

The residents of Jrvej Commune came to the Office of People’s Party, bringing papers, voted for Stepan Demirchyan. They said to find them at one of the Jrvej’s streets. They told in PP that those papers are little part of the big stack, fired by their Commune Head before their eyes. PP Press Secretary Ruzanne Khachatryan says it’s not the first case, their office receives such papers day by day. PP says, the history begins, the papers voted...

New arrests took place after the February 24 meeting . People’s Party Press Secretary Ruzanne Khachatryan informed there are more than a few tens of arrests. After the previous meeting the employees of National Security and Internal Affairs Ministries arrested about 100 people, mainly heads of headquarters for Stepan Demirchyan, activists, village drivers, simply meeting participants . There...

On February 23 “Shant” TV Company, included in the list of the “Leading and Independent” TV Companies, obviously violated the right of citizens for being informed. Breaking beforehand approved and printed program list, the TV Company suddenly aired out “Ditak” program, made by “Internews” Company . The program was totally about the presidential elections in Armenia on February 19 . The materials of various independent TV Companies...

“The moral Renaissance of Armenia will begin if they leave, we have no future without it. The expiry of “funeral” of the regime is March 5” , Shavarsh Kocharyan announced at the February 21 meeting. As the organisers evaluate, about 200.000 people took part in the meeting nearby Matenadaran. The chain of the participants stretched to Moskovyan Street. Aram Sargssyan, R. Avagyan, Sh. Kocharyan, A. Bazeyan, G. Harutyunyan and others made...

The Economic Court delayed discussion of the claim of 5 TV Companies against TV and Radio National Committee for an extra week. This session, dragging out “A1+”’s return to broadcasting, will probably be over after the second round of the presidential elections. This time TV stations gave occasion to delay and Committee didn’t miss its chance to postpone it at the pre-election mess. Today...

Recently on various Mass Media statements regarding the terror action in Parliament Hall in 1999 have been made by Tigran Nazaryan, ex-employee of Public TV Company. Armenian Military Office of Public Prosecutor has already conducted measures to take Tigran Nazaryan back to Armenia through support of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and to launch the necessary investigative operations with his participation....

“Yesterday our shooting groups expressed wish to record calculation of voting papers after election centres are closed” Except a chairman of one of the polling committees, others simply forbade us to carry out our journalistic duties – to shoot the counting process of voting papers ” Our journalists went to the polling stations with documents indicative of their professional activity...

It snowed all day. By 21:00 AM local time snow clogged all roads of Armenian capital. Public transport ceased functioning. At 22:00AM, vice mayor of Yerevan said road-cleaning works have already started.

Armentel Armenian-Greek company’s authorities are able to breathe freely again. British auditors conducting Armentel monitoring from January 16 completed their work by the end of the month. It is still early to speak about the audit results Specialists of WFI Consulting British company are now in London, where scrutinising obtaining information. Experts’ conclusion is to be presented to Armenian...

Ayb-Fe daily newspaper released Saturday the A1+ TV Company staff’s request for political asylum to be sent to foreign embassies in Armenia. The A1+ personnel take this step as the last resort because it is already obvious that the republic authorities make every effort to suspend tender for broadcasting license in order to bar the company from highlighting presidential and later parliamentary election. The...

Presentation of “Armenia 2020, Security and Development Strategy” book took place Tuesday in the Armenian Center for National and International Studies. It is the first time for the last 8 years the Center decided to summarise in the book the work done within one year. Science Manager of the Center Tatul Manasaryan says this is the first attempt to summarise those principal approaches toward...

Human Rights Coverage Centre /Georgia/ in association with Armenian Constitutional and Rights Defence Centre /Armenia/ and Defence Bureau of Human Rights and Legislation /Azerbaijan/ by support of European Youth Fund / Strasbourg, France/ arranges courses for young lawyers of Caucasus in Borjomi-Likani /Georgia/ from February 16-21, 2003. 28 students of Departments of Law and International Right...

“We haven’t yet evaluated victory of Artsakh War. If there is change of Authorities tomorrow, Generals of today will become criminals” , Edik Baghdasarian, Director of Association of Investigating Journalists, announced at the scientific meeting in Tsaghkadzor, arranged by Information Service of Yerevan State University. Participants of the 3 day long meeting tried to represent coverage of Artsakh Liberation War in Mass Media since 1989....

Today in “ArmSavingsBank” money was being distributed among some people to vote in favour of one of the candidates, Robert Kocharyan. An old woman assured she was given 10.000 drams, as a lonely pensioner . She also said money is being apportioned all over Yerevan and was surprised at that we were unaware of it. After registering passport data some of the people queuing were given 5.000 drams, others – 10.000 . Both young people and...