Paper: Tsarukyan’s golden gun is a gift from Armenian PresidentApril 20, 2012 - 11:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Pistol belonging to Prosperous Armenia leader Gagik Tsarukyan, the most popular topic in the media over the past few days, appears to have interesting origin. According to Zhoghovurd paper’s data, Tsarukyan got his golden gun from Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan as a gift. Tsarukyan’s spokesman Khachik Galstyan neither confirmed nor refuted the information to Zhoghovurd just saying: “You’ve had enough of that topic; you’d better report about something else now.” During the election campaign in the town of Etchmiadzin, a gust revealed a gun stuck in the party leader's belt. Tsarukyan declared this was just a Vertu phone, while former Foreign Minister, now member of the Prosperous Armenia, Vartan Oskanian, claimed he believes this was really a pistol. Despite party’s refusal to admit their leader carries weapon, Tsarukyan does have the right to do so by law, since he is also a member of Armenia’s Security Council, the paper says. 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 | 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. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |