Month: February 2021

The court has allowed the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, to enter into some property deals that do not involve the alienation of this property.

The relevant statement was submitted to the court by Hovhannes Khudoyan, a lawyer of Kocharyan. 

"As far as we understand, we are talking about the house where Kocharyan lives and the surrounding area. If it is about that, we do not object," said Prosecutor Petros Petrosyan.

The court found that it did not see any obstacles to allowing transactions related to Kocharyan's property if they did not involve its alienation, and therefore the court permitted any transaction that would not lead to the alienation of Robert Kocharyan's property that is under attachment.

YEREVAN. – The lack of large-scale use of Armenian-made drones is due to the lack of mass production; Hakob Arshakyan, Minister High-Tech Industry of Armenia, told this to a press conference on Tuesday.

He added that funding projects have been accepted for the development and production of attack and reconnaissance drones, and some of them have already been completed. According to Arshakyan, Armenia needs to achieve production opportunities for both types of these drones.

"The [Armenian-made] reconnaissance UAVs, which are not inferior to competitors in their parameters, have been used in [the recent war in] Karabakh [Artsakh] and have performed well. The UAVs that were not tested but were ready were also used, "Arshakyan said.

And when asked why footage on the operation of the Armenian-made drones was virtually not made public—as the adversary was doing, the minister explained that since the matter was about intelligence apparatus, the information provided the latter is confidential and not subject to publication.

Armenia is no longer sending fixed-term servicemen to Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). The winter military call-up has actually been launched, and as Sputnik Armenia was told, citizens of Armenia subject to military call-up will only serve at the military units located in the territory of Armenia.

Sputnik Armenia also succeeded in finding out that the military units in Artsakh aren’t indicated in the options during the draw for military units.

Earlier, there was news in the presses and on social networks about the disintegration of the Defense Army of Artsakh. Later, Secretary of the Security Council of Artsakh Vitaly Balasanyan declared that Artsakh’s state bodies are currently dealing with the issue of forming professional units on contractual grounds. Afterwards, President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan made a statement refuting the news about the dissolution of the Defense Army.

Members of the families of political prisoners tried to hold a protest in front of the US Embassy in Baku. According to Turan, among the protesters were editor of xeberman.com Polad Aslanov’s wife, director of Azel.TV Afgan Sadigov’s wife and members of the families of those arrested under the ‘case of Ganja’. The family members were holding photos of the political prisoners.

The protesters have called on the US Embassy and the diplomatic representations of other countries, as well as representatives of international organizations to take part in the trials over the arrested.

Aslanov’s and Sadigov’s wives reminded about their husbands’ hunger strikes and health problems. Police officers arrived at the scene and stole the posters and photos from the demonstrators. In regard to the demonstration, the US Embassy told Turan the following: “We support the rights of everyone to protest peacefully and their right to freedom of assembly.”

According to the information of the Union for Freedom of the Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan, there are currently 146 political prisoners in the country’s prisons.