The police officer, who pushed the mother of Valery Muradyan, who died in the army under peaceful conditions, and crumpled her son’s photo, was not even rebuked for that. Nana Muradyan told www.aravot.am about that. In her words, they gave the runaround to her for weeks, “They had conducted an [...]
Presently the most discussed topic is the Legal Regime of the State of Emergency Act and implications of it. As we know, the bill was passed on first reading by the National Assembly on March 1. The press and the electronic mass media are full of materials, the majority [...]
The provision of Article 5, the Legal Regime of the State of Emergency bill, which provides for using armed forces to disperse, restrict protests, is unconstitutional, according to lawyer Rafik Petrosyan, a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP. It is the reason why he voted nay on that bill on [...]
Today is the day of the Soviet Army. Member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Supreme Body Armen Rustamyan said about our today’s army during a conversation with Aravot.am that the foundation of the army was robust, because the people had created it, “When the people gain something, it is [...]
Hovhannes Igityan, a member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM) governing committee, shared his thoughts about using the army during the election, “former” and “present” friends and the Heritage Party. Deformation of the Armenian political stage starts from the fact that the Republican Party has intertwined with the governing bodies [...]
Journalists asked the Minister of Defense at the press conference today to present the number of officials that had been held accountable in 2011 for crimes as a result of non-procedural relationship with deadly or murderous outcome. “What we had in 2011 was the result of laborious and consistent [...]
To speak about the 20th anniversary of the army in an official, elevated tone and turn a blind eye to the drawbacks is not honest and fair. Today our society, I am convinced, is proud of our army and its history, on one hand, and is more demanding toward this institution, than any other one, on the other. Because, when a tax collector is corrupted, it is considered as a drawback of the given field, whereas when the commander is like that, it is perceived as not only a drawback, but also as a threat to our state security. When an ordinary, “civilian” oligarch exploits the population of his district, sometimes throwing them a few “charity” bones, people just hate such a “great guy,” when an oligarch with general’s shoulder straps does the same thing, his every step arouses innermost protest. When they conceal a murder in the civilian life, it is assessed as a crime of “cops” or prosecutors, whereas when it is done in the army, the mother of every serviceman is alarmed.
Today Hrayr Karapetyan, the head of the Armenian National Assembly Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs, met with journalists and presented the achievements of the Armenian military forces and the reforms being carried out. He noted, “Thanks to the Armenian army, we won the Artsakh war for [...]
“Is our pain not the president’s pain?” the parents of the soldiers who had died in the army asked Vigen Khachatryan, the President’s Chief of Staff. They asked V. Khachatryan outside the Government House to arrange a meeting with the president, “I assure you it is unnecessary to draw the [...]
A relative of Smbat Ayvazyan, a member of the political council of the “Republic” Party, was allegedly engaged in a sensational fight that took place yesterday in the Lusakert military base. Mr. Ayvazyan reaffirmed during a conversation with Aravot.am that one of the people engaged in a fight was one [...]
During an interview given to “Aravot” Seyran Ohanyan, the Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia, speaking of the demand made by the NGOs to voice the problems of the army and acting transparently in the eyes of the army command, actually repeated the statement made by Deputy Minister of [...]
Assures Seyran Ohanyan, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia
