December, 2011

• 6 December

  

  Emergency Meeting: Newly Elected Parliament Speaker Signs First Decision

  After the election results were announced, Samvel Nikoyan gave defeated candidate Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan a...
• 6 December

  

  Samvel Nikoyan Elected as Armenia’s Next National Assembly Chair

  Samvel Nikoyan was asked why he was nominated for the position after former parliamentary speaker Hovik Abrahamyan resigned...
• 6 December

  

  People’s Party Leader Tigran Karapetyan Believes his Party is Alternative in Armenia

  On collaboration between his party and the Armenian National Congress (HAK), which he had deemed possible one month...
• 6 December

  

  Incident at Khor Virap: Prosecutor Curses Women, Relatives of March 1 Victims

  Samvel Harutyunyan, killed in Yerevan on Mar. 1, 2008, would've turned 32 on Monday. Recall, Harutyunyan was one of...
• 6 December

  

  Opinions on Armenia’s Lustration Law: Were They Informers or Are They Serving the People?

  The draft Law on Lustration aims to declassify individuals who worked for the Committee for State Security, intelligence services and...
• 6 December

  

  Hundreds Arrested Following Protests Against Electoral Fraud in Russia (VIDEO)

  The contentious vote sparked vast opposition rallies in Moscow and the country's second-largest city of Saint Petersburg with...
• 6 December

  

  Armenia, Azerbaijan Foreign Affairs Met with 4 OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs

  Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian on Dec. 5 met with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov...
• 6 December

  

  No Casualties from Bitumen Plant Explosion in Armenia

  There are no casualties and no injured from yesterday's blast in the Arbit bitumen plant in the village of Surenavan in ....
• 5 December

  

  WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Handed ‘Lifeline’ by British Court

  "Today the High Court has decided that an issue arises from my own case that is of general public importance and...
• 5 December

  

  Road Linking Armenia to Batumi will Raise Problems for Georgia: Shevardnadze

  Former President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze sees a danger in Armenia's construction of a road linking the country with...