Category: 2018

From the Gyumri office of the Civil Contract Party, the citizens left for Yerevan to participate in a rally dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nikol Pashinyan’s being prime minister. They said they would confirm their presence and say “no” to the initiators of the anti-revolutionary movement.

Details are on “Tsayg” TV footage.

More than 1000 people from Artsakh arrived in Yerevan to take part in the meeting convened by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, For the Sake of Artsakh youth NGO chairman Gor Balasanyan said, stating that this initiative belongs to their organization. He informed that the Free Fatherland party’s youth wing has assisted them.

“The meeting will be attended by young people from different regions of Artsakh. Our goal is to maintain and strengthen Armenia-Diaspora-Artsakh ties”, he said.

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan called on the people to gather at the Republic Square on August 17, at 18:30.

Judge of the Yerevan City Court of General Jurisdiction Mesrop Makyan released Arayik Khandoyan and Varuzhan Avetisyan, members of the Sasna Tsrer group.

The court used the personal guarantees of NA deputies of the Tsarukyan faction Hakob Nazaryan and Naira Zohrabyan.

At present, Sasna Tsrer members, their relatives and supporters move to Republic Square to participate in the rally.

Today, the RA Prosecutor General’s Office has received the decision of the Appellate Court about the release of Robert Kocharyan.

Spokesperson for the Prosecutor General’s Office Arevik Khachatryan told the aforementioned “A1 +.”
“After receiving the decision, the Prosecutor’s Office prepares the complaint.”

There is a lot to do in Stepanos Alikhanyan State Puppet Theater in Gyumri, which is Armenia’s oldest puppet theater. Newly appointed director Armine Manukyan lists the issues.

“The theater did not have any interior decoration for about 30 years. Now, any wall is in a poor condition and we try to adjust the situation through the help of philanthropists,” she says.

Especially, there is a lack of male actors in the theater.

During 83 years, many things have changed: the playground, the list of plays, but the purpose of the puppet theater has not changed, which is making the spirit of the Armenian fairy tales more recognizable to kids.

Regardless of everything, the theater has no lack of audience.

By the way, when the abonement system for schools is introduced, the number of audience will increase. Children in Gyumri love puppet shows and when they are given the opportunity to choose three cultural institutions, surely one of them will be the oldest puppet theater.

More information is in the video.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan touched upon Robert Kocharyan’s statement that he was a victim of political persecution.

“If you are a victim, what do you do in freedom? Or do you think we do not know the ways of forcing judges to impose this or that illegal decision? But we have abandoned that practice and I want to say that we are proud of our government that we have abandoned that practice.”

Pashinyan stressed that nobody will be allowed to avoid responsibility.

“I exclude that anyone will avoid the responsibility for killing 10 civilians and carrying out state revolution in the Republic of Armenia on March 1. There cannot be such a thing. There cannot be such a thing,” announced Nikol Pashinyan and added, “You will sit with all the murderers. And I am authorized to declare it on behalf of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia.”