VERELQ presents the most notable publications of the Armenian press.

“Publication” the daily writes: “Member of the National Assembly Seyran Saroyan, who closed the doors of his house, left, has been in Armenia for 3 days. Why did he come? “He must undergo a certain course of treatment and analysis here and return to Moscow again,” they told us. According to our sources, Saroyan will also meet Nikol Pashinyan. With what question? “As far as I know, Saroyan, from whom? Manvel Grigoryan He is terribly upset, he wants to talk to Pashinyan about the general’s restraining order.” He probably learned that Manvel hardly moves, his limbs do not work, he has turned into a crippled old man, to the extent that the children did not recognize him at first during the last meeting.

“People” the daily writes: “Yesterday the President of RA Armen Sargsyan visited Gyumri to see the building handed over to the Shirak Geology Museum and under renovation. And although Armen Sarkissian was welcomed by the governor of Shirak and the mayor of Gyumri near the Gyumri technopark, the president refused to use their services. “Zhoghovurd” daily interviewed the mayor of Gyumri on this occasion Samvel Balasanyan and Governor of Shirak Karen Sarukhanyan with To the question, “Didn’t you feel bad when he forbade you to accompany him?”, Balasanyan answered. “There was no problem of feeling bad, the president came with a clear investment plan.” And don’t you feel humiliated by that attitude, he said: “No, there is no problem of feeling humiliated.” And at least you didn’t entertain the president afterwards, the mayor answered. “We had coffee in the bakery-cafe, took advantage of the hospitality.”

“Publication” the daily writes: “Although the leadership of the National Assembly canceled the expenses of the business trips after the dissolution of the parliament, the Armenian deputies decided to take advantage of the last opportunity. The delegation of the RA-China friendship group was sent to Beijing on November 8-15. Hermine Naghdalyan led by They make up Gemma Baghdasaryan, Shushan Sardaryan, Karen Bekaryan, Arman Saghatelyan, from “KP” Lena Nazaryan, Aram Sargsyan, and Margarit Yesayan and Alen Simonyan they refused. Yesayan said that he refused because of the death of a relative. The deputy head of the NA staff said that the expenses are covered by the Chinese side. Usually, the costs of visits of friendly groups are settled by mutual agreement, and sometimes Armenia, in addition to air tickets, took over the remaining costs when hosting groups.

“Publication” the newspaper writes. “Member of the National Assembly Tigran Urikhanyan has already announced that he will be nominated in electoral district No. 2, which includes Arabkir, Ajapnyak, Davtashen regions, using the rating electoral system. And since the “Alliance”, which showed ambition to participate in the elections independently, announced that after the defeat of the new Electoral Code, it will no longer be possible to participate without large units, most likely, Urikhanyan will be nominated in the format as he was traditionally nominated, that is, from Tsarukyan’s team, on the list of the PAP. This information was also not denied by our source in “Alliance”, noting that “on Monday an extraordinary emergency congress of the party will be held and an announcement will be made on the spot”.

“time” the newspaper writes. “On November 8, the meeting of the OEK board took place, during which the issue of the party’s participation in the parliamentary elections was discussed. According to our source close to OEK, a decision was made not to participate in the parliamentary elections, which the party will announce in the near future. The main reason for non-participation will be the failure of EC amendments and the preservation of the rating electoral system.”

“time” the newspaper writes. “According to “Zhamanak”, the former head of Armavir marz will be nominated as a deputy candidate in the ranking electoral system in electoral district No. 6 covering Armavir region. Gagik Mirijanyan: Mirijanyan was appointed governor by the PAP quota and was fired after the popular vote of the PAP on October 2. Gagik Mirijanyan in 2017 In the parliamentary elections, he was nominated as a deputy candidate by the ARF and received about 500 votes.

“People” the daily writes: “The ARF will compile and publish the party’s proportional and ranked voter lists in the next few days. According to the information of “Zhoghovurd” daily, the ARF voter’s list and especially those nominated by the ranking electoral system will not undergo much changes. In particular, several names are already known. This time, he can also be nominated by ranked election system Armen Rustamyan, who will again lead the ARF electoral list. Ex-ministers will also be nominated by the ranking electoral system Artsvik Minasyan, Artur Khachatryan, Davit Lokyan, as well as the former head of the Arabkir administrative district Hovhannes Vardanyanthe Moreover, during the elections held on April 2, 2017, the ARF received 103 thousand 48 votes. For comparison, let’s note that the “Exit” alliance received 122 thousand 65 votes. However, there are candidates in the ARF list who received few votes in the previous elections. for example, MP Armenuhi Kyureghyan, who received 509 votes. It is noteworthy that in these NA elections, all the parties seem to intend to nominate their political figures, who were previously included only in the proportional voter lists, using the ranking electoral system. ARF also follows this step. It is only interesting whether the ARF, which is no longer part of the government, does not enjoy the patronage of the RPA, does not have the courage to appear in the National Assembly like before (just like the other forces participating in the elections), will be able to overcome the temporary threshold and appear in the parliament.

“time” the newspaper writes. “2015 after the well-known events, he first left the PAP, and later joined the “Alliance” party Aragats Akhoyan will be nominated in the Aragatsotn marz by the rating election system, representing the PAP. “Alliance” was conducting negotiations with “Republic” and “Free Democrats”, announcing that they can participate in the elections as an alliance, but in reality, all of that was aimed at securing their own place in PAP.”

“People” the daily writes: “Former Governor of Tavush Hovik Abovyan 2018 on June 1, ironically on his birthday, he was relieved of his post. And after his dismissal, he went underground, he does not perform any public actions. This is despite the fact that he is formally the president of the regional organization of RPA Tavush. “Zhoghovurd” daily learned that Abovyan is not seen in his native Koghb village, he did not even participate in relatives’ weddings. This is probably due to the criminal case initiated by “H. A. Regarding the activities of “Autotekhnnum” LLC. This company actually belongs to Hovik Abovyan. It carried out a mandatory technical inspection of vehicles with the license of the Ministry of Transport, during which abuses were allowed. He stole AMD 3500-10500. In addition, he stole money by falsifying documents and as a partial recovery of the damage caused, 6 million 700 thousand drams were transferred to the deposit account of the RA Investigative Committee.

“Publication” the daily writes: “The session of the CSTO was quite intense. The participants of the session decided not to give details to the media, they will only say that the issue of the General Secretary was moved to the agenda of the EAEU summit on December 6, but the president of Kazakhstan violated the agreement. Nazarbaev, which, as the presiding country in the CSTO, said that they are in favor of the candidate of Belarus, and during the discussion itself, he expressed his opinion that if the candidate of Armenia is approved, the new secretary will not have time to solve issues within 1 year, to “go through the countries”. “The thing is that Kazakhstan, which is obviously lobbying Azerbaijan, does not want the Russian candidate to be nominated for that position,” said our source. What will be the scenarios on December 6? “Possible scenarios are the following. Belarus and Kazakhstan remain in their positions, Armenia gives up its positions. this is unlikely. Kazakhstan and Belarus are lagging behind, which is also unlikely. According to everything, the most likely one is the interim official.” But there is another delicate issue: the CSTO observation project developed by Belarus… Was it developed for Azerbaijan? “Why not, but it also solves a common problem?” Is it possible to barter? we allow Azerbaijan to become an observer member of the CSTO, Armenia continues the position of Secretary General for a year and a half. “No, in exchange for the observer member of Azerbaijan, Armenia should at least demand that Azerbaijan undertakes not to start the war, and also that Armenia be provided with serious military equipment. Don’t forget that decisions in the CSTO are made by consensus, and if Armenia does not agree, Azerbaijan will never become an observer member.”

“Publication” the daily writes: “A lawyer Mihran Poghosyan also the former head of the investigation group of March 1 Vahagn Harutyunyan it is the defense attorney who told one of the media that when Harutyunyan’s treatment course in Moscow ends at the end of November, he will advise him to think carefully about whether it is worth coming to Armenia to seek justice. When asked why he did not give similar advice to his other client, Yuri Khachaturov, the lawyer said that, unlike Harutyunyan, in July, the court applied bail to Khachaturov as a preventive measure, and in this case, at least in terms of freedom, they are calm.

“People” the daily writes: “As of November 1 of this year, the state debt of Armenia amounted to 6 billion 724.3 million dollars. Compared to the beginning of the year, this number decreased by 50.3 million dollars. the fact is that as of January 1, the state debt was 6 billion 774.6 million dollars. This picture is probably not accidental. After the Velvet Revolution, the RA government adopted a policy of debt reduction and at the same time not adding new debt. Let’s note that the RA government has started to pursue this policy since May, when he became the prime minister Nikol Pashinyan: And that government “inherited” a huge burden of state debt. as of May 1, the debt was 6 billion 867.5 million dollars. In other words, during these months of Pashinyan’s government, the state debt decreased by a total of 143.2 million dollars.

“People”the daily writes: “In Armenia, the production volumes of bread, one of the basic necessities, have decreased again. According to the RA Statistical Committee, in the third quarter of this year, compared to the same period last year, the volume of bread production decreased by 2.4 percent. It should be noted that 199 thousand 500 tons of bread were produced in January-September of this year, compared to 204 thousand 400 tons in the same period last year. “Zhoghovurd” daily newspaper has repeatedly had the opportunity to address this topic, informing that the decline in the volume of bread production is a consequence of the decrease in the number of the permanent population and the decline in purchasing power. Accordingly, how much decreases population, the volumes of consumption and production of essential food are decreasing.