 Orinats Yerkir offers electoral bribes under assistance cover, paper says April 18, 2012 - 13:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Yerkir paper found out that Orinats Yerkir party offers electoral bribes to citizens contacting them mostly over the phone. Party's district office staff calls people saying namely: “You are expected to get assistance, please come collect it,” a resident of Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia district told Yerkir. The woman once contacted Orinats Yerkir several years ago, and has since maintained ties only via phone. “On holidays, a girl calls us informing about the regular “assistance”, she said adding that this is the way the party notified about coffee, lemonade and vodka at Christmas, and jam and a scarf on April 7, Motherhood and Beauty Day. “Now I’m eager to see what they will give us for the elections,” the woman confessed hoping the party will appear more generous this time.   Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says.   Partner news |  Latest news Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia  The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |
