VERELQ presents the most notable publications of the Armenian press.
“time” the newspaper writes. “Arrested Robert Kocharyan eldest son Sedrak Kocharyan, these days he has active meetings with various political figures and expresses his willingness to finance their opposition activities. The interesting thing is that during those meetings, Kocharyan emphasizes that his father does not set a problem to return to power and occupy the position of president or prime minister, they just set a problem to take revenge. From Nikol Pashinyan and as strange as it sounds From Serzh Sargsyan»:
“People” the newspaper writes. “President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during yesterday’s press conference, he was quite frank, revealing several remarkable facts. He admitted that the Prime Minister of Armenia apologized during the recent CIS summit in St. Petersburg. From Nikol Pashinyanfor the sharp statements made by the CSTO General Secretary. At the same time, Lukashenko justified why he sells arms to Azerbaijan. To remind, Nikol Pashinyan also accused Belarus in this matter, demanding clarifications as to why one of the CSTO member states is selling weapons to the enemy of its ally. Lukashenko excused himself that they took that step to close their loan, moreover, they offered such weapons to RA, but official Yerevan refused, and finally, he reminded that the first to sell weapons to Azerbaijan was Russia, not them. Such a turn of events is perhaps remarkable and perhaps unprecedented consider In the last twenty years, it is difficult to remember a case when any head of state apologized after showing wrong behavior towards Armenia, and then spoke about it in the media. On the contrary, we have witnessed on various occasions in the past how the heads of EAEU or CIS countries put themselves in an uncomfortable position publicly.Serzh Sargsyan, and he “swallowed” everything. It is no coincidence that during the pre-election campaign, RPA members insisted that Nikol Pashinyan should also be careful and not speak sharply with international partners. It turned out that Pashinyan’s way of working justifies himself well. after all, the international community takes into account those who have dignity, can pursue the interest of their country, not swallow insults.
“Publication” the newspaper writes. “Nikol Pashinyan Counselor on a public basis Mesrop Arakelyan we don’t know what advice he gives, but he is engaged in active propaganda of the current economic policy on social networks and constantly informs that the RPA has robbed the country, because of the RPA they get low wages, and the RPA has deepened social injustice. It turns out that Arakelyan has been the director of the organization providing auto loans with the highest percentage in Armenia for almost 2 years, since the time of RPA. MOGO credit organization working with Latvian capital provides car loans at 120 percent, that is, for a loan equivalent to 2 thousand dollars, the citizen returns 4 thousand 500 dollars. MOGO attracts borrowers with the promise of processing a loan in 1 day, as a result, people fall under a heavy credit burden.”
“People” the newspaper writes. “Zhoghovurd” daily became aware that, most likely, the number of NA standing committees will increase after the formation of the new parliament. According to Article 106 of the RA Constitution, the number of standing committees cannot be more than 12. After the 2017 parliamentary elections, the number of NA standing committees of the 6th convocation was reduced from 12 to 9. MP at that time Hrayr Tovmasyan noted that the number of committees should be reduced, taking into account the number of deputies – 105 people. Meanwhile, the number of deputies in the new parliament will be 27 more – 132 people. Which commission will reach which political power has not been finally decided. in this case, the “dont formula” provided for in the NA Regulation Law will apply. At the same time, let’s note that the increase in the number of NA deputies will in turn lead to an increase in expenses from the state budget: salaries of deputies, their assistants, plus office expenses, business trip expenses, etc. It should be noted that only business travel expenses are at least 2 thousand dollars per person.”
“Publication” the newspaper writes. “Chairman of the CEC Tigran Mukuchyan wants to become too Nikol Pashinyan servant of the government, like RPA Serzh Sargsyan was. Yesterday, he did not want to say when the parliament is considered constituted, when the CEC summarizes the results and makes a decision, or when the mandates are distributed. “When the time comes, you will know about it,” he said in response to our cross-questions. He repeated the same answer to the question: what does the law say about that before the time comes? We wrote that the dispute “Should the first session of the National Assembly be on December 24 or January 7” continues, and the President of the CEC should announce the date, but Mukuchyan is not in a hurry to do so, because Pashinyan’s team tends to hold the first session on January 7, although independent lawyers are celebrating December 24.
“People” the newspaper writes. “According to the information received by “Zhoghovurd” daily newspaper, law enforcement officers found a deputy of the RPA faction of the National Assembly, formerly the Minister of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia. Aram Harutyunyan against the person wanted in a criminal case for taking a large bribe. In particular, the former director of the clinic of the Sevan psychiatric hospital was wanted in this case Gagik Karapetyan: In the framework of this case, the name of Karapetyan was also given, because he is in a relationship with Aram Harutyunyan. And there is testimony that businessman Silva Hambardzumyan transferred 8 million dollars to the account given to him in Dubai, to the account of Araks Dilanyan. On the same day, Araks Dilanyan transferred 3 famous colleagues of Aram Harutyunyan from his account: Victor Martirosyan, Armen Khachatryan and Gagik Karapetyan. And here it became known to us yesterday that the pre-investigation body has already found Gagik Karapetyan.”
“time” the newspaper writes. “Sources close to the government claim that after the New Year holidays, Armenia may face serious financial problems, and the default, which various experts have been predicting for a long time, will no longer be possible to postpone. Our source does not rule out that the authorities will depreciate the dram exchange rate by approximately 20 percent.”
“time” the newspaper writes. “The State Control Service carried out inspections in the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and found abuses of multi-millions. These findings have not yet been made public. The authorities are waiting for the formation of a new government, when this ministry will be dissolved and merged with the Ministry of Culture, and Minister Gabriel Ghazaryan will become an ordinary citizen. In that case, the initiation of a criminal case will not affect the government’s reputation.”
“time” the newspaper writes. “Our source close to the Russian border guard service informs that a few days ago a border violator whose citizenship has not been ascertained was detained by the Russian border guards in the Ararat marz. The latter claimed that he is a citizen of Georgia, but of Azerbaijani nationality. It is unknown for what purpose he crossed the border and appeared in the territory of Armenia.”