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15,08 percent of voters participated in Yerevan Council of Aldermen Elections

15,08 percent of the voters or 123,121 citizens participated in the Yerevan Council of Aldermen Elections by 11:00. As reports "Armenpress" the Deputy Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia Laura Galstyan stated this.

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Yerevan City Council Elections voting launched

The voting for the Yerevan City Council Elections has been launched on May 5. At 08:00 am all the 464 electoral offices were open in 13 electoral districts. The campaign was launched on April 7 and ended on May 3. The political forces struggle for 65 places in the Yerevan Council. During the electoral campaign the seven political powers - Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), The Rule of Law, Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), Armenian National Congress (ANC), Mission Party, Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) and Hello, Yerevan – presented their programs to the Yerevan community. ...

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Zhamanak: Ex-minister bought villa in Spain

“Zhamanak” daily writes that the former minister of urban development, member of Prosperous Armenia Party Vardan Vardanain bought a villa in Spain during his term of office....

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Ministry spokesman: Torture practices are peculiar to Azerbaijani military

"Sabiroghlu’s statement does not correspond to reality. No such thing happened or could have happened. Such behavior is peculiar to Azerbaijani military, and not to Armenian servicemen,” spokesman for Armenia’s Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisian told Aysor.am....

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Silence day in Yerevan

May 4 is silence day advancing the elections of Yerevan Council of Older Man. Due to point 5 of article 18 of chapter 4 of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia any pre-electoral campaign, including that through media, is prohibited on the voting day and the day preceding it....

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Arnold Stepanyan: "No one recognizes Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia’s economy is collapsing"

“The war can destroy not only Armenia, but the entire South Caucasian republics,” Head of "Multinational Georgia" organization Arnold Stepanyan told journalists, APA reports....

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"Zhoghovurd": Armen Ashotyan about beating pupils's mother by school principal

Yesterday the Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan in an interview with the newspaper "Zhoghovurd", referring to the beating of the pupil's mother at Yerevan's N 55 school after Chekhov Natalia Sarkissian by the director Gayane Sarukhanian, said: "Any violence should be condemned, especially in the educational institution, if there was such an incident. And for clarification, it is necessary to turn to law enforcement authorities. " ...

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