Cronicles of 1-march 2008/Yerevan

As we know, the members of the NA interim committee dealing with the investigation of the March 1-2 incidents and their causes recently visited the Police military unit No. 10/33 with the purpose of meeting with the commanders and finding out the circumstances of the death of Tigran Abgaryan, a serviceman who was injured during [...]

ARMENIA:THE VICTIMS OF THE “PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS”

During its yesterday’s session the NA Temporary Committee investigating the results of March 1-2 developments touched upon the circumstances of the death cases and the results of the forensic expertise. For that purpose the committee invited the Director of the Scientific-Practical Center of Forensic Expertise Shota Vardanyan.

Armenia.1-st of March 2008.Update from police.

The only issue included in the agenda of yesterday’s session of the interim parliamentary committee investigating the March 1-2 events and their causes concerned the disclosure of the details and circumstances of the incident that took place on the Theatrical Square in the morning of March 1 and the clarification of the operations of the [...]

Armenia.March-1 2008.The disorders were supervised by one centre

VAHAGN HAROUTYUNYAN, senior investigator of the Special Investigative Service of the General Prosecutor’s Office and Head of the Investigative Group, was invited to yesterday’s session of the NA interim committee investigating the March 1-2 events. The purpose of his participation was to give details on the circumstances of the prosecution of the 3 MPs who [...]

Armenia.Presidental elections.Part 5.

Ter-Petrosyan’s Objective: International Inquiry into the March 1 Events in Armenia

The in-depth analysis of the recent events in Armenia is still to come; nevertheless, we can draw certain conclusions. First of all, we would like to touch upon one of the extremist statements made by former Armenian presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan. During the Constitutional Court [...]

VICTIMS OF “CHERYOMUKHA”

Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan informed Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Tomas Hammerberg the names of those policemen who used special means during March 1-2 developments due to which three people died.

“Economist” misinformed readers.March 2008 and armenian blogs.

“Economist” published an article “Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them” where there is a section about Armenia. Unfortunately in the passage listed below there is misinformation about governmental restriction on the blog activities during the state of emergency.
“It was the same story in Armenia in March, where the president, [...]

Third Party Voice: Reactions to being called “scum”

“I don’t think any person with dignity can be found in Armenia to go against the people and not stand by our side. It’s painful there is a lot of scum, but, be confident, the more powerful our movement becomes, the less becomes the scum..”
This is from Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s February 23rd speech. I read [...]

Moving Forward In Armenia/Washington Post/2008

 

By Serzh Sargsyan and Arthur Baghdasaryan
Monday, March 17, 2008; Page A17  
 

Armenia’s reputation as a stable, democratic country in a troubled region has taken a battering recently. Although international observers gave an overall positive rating to the conduct of last month’s presidential election, opposition forces took to the streets, seeking to overturn the people’s will. [...]

Armenia/March 2008

By Vahan Ishkhanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Published: 21, March, 2008“Soldiers with truncheons and shields blocked the whole street and began to go forward to press the people against the embassy [building] believing they will disperse learning the soldiers have come. We went some 20 meters and calmed down, I even lit a cigarette thinking they would not resist [...]