The Amendments to the Law on “Television And Radio” Turned Down

03 October 2006

Today almost all the members of the Republican Party came to the National
Assembly to provide the voting of the issues discussed during the previous
sitting. Nevertheless, the party members failed to provide voting for two
disputable draft laws. Namely, the amendments to the law on “Television and
Radio” were voted down.

The Opposition, Dashnaktsutyun and freelance deputies didn’t participate in the
voting. Prior to the voting, Grigor Haroutyunyan, secretary of “Justice”
faction, asked the NA deputy speaker to keep the results of the voting on the
screen for a whole...


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Armenian Republicans ‘Committed To Free Elections’

02 October 2006

The governing Republican Party (HHK) is mindful of negative consequences of vote
rigging for Armenia and will therefore ensure that the next national elections
are free and fair, a senior party figure claimed on Monday.

Samvel Nikoyan said a repeat of serious fraud would pose a “threat to national
security.” “Thank God, the party has all the resources to organize and win such
an election,” he told journalists...


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Adoption of Law Will Arouse «Civic Disobedience»

02 October 2006

The residents of the “reconstruction zones” of the capital who have been
deprived of their houses due to “state needs” arrived at the National Assembly
building earlier than the deputies. Although the NA sittings start at midday,
the former residents of North and Main Avenues, Koghbatsi, Firdusi, and Kozern
streets and Dalma and Old Norq gardens gathered near the entrance of the
Parliament building at about 10:15 a.m. to exercise “public pressure” upon the
deputies in order to prevent the RA draft law on “Alienation of property for
state and public needs” from entering the NA agenda...


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Statement Of Yerevan Press Club, Journalists Union Of Armenia, Internews
Media Support Ngo, Committee To Protect Freedom Of Expression, “Asparez”
Journalist's Club Of Gyumri

28 September 2006

Regarding the draft law “on introducing amendments and additions into the ra law
‘on television and radio’”


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Opposition Blocks Government Bill On Property Confiscation

27 September 2006

The Armenian opposition succeeded on Wednesday in blocking a controversial bill
that would uphold the government’s power to confiscate real property and give it
to private developers by citing “state needs.”

The government lacked only four votes to push the bill through parliament in the
second reading. Poor attendance of the parliament session appears to have been
instrumental in its rare setback in the overwhelmingly loyal National Assembly.


The draft law is supposed to regulate continuing demolitions of old parts of
central Yerevan that has been the scene of a massive redevelopment in recent
years. They have sparked angry protests by scores of people who have been
evicted from their now demolished homes and claim to have not been properly
compensated by the state...


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