The mediation of the National Security Service in connection with Zhirayr Sefilyan’s case has already been heard. Judge of the Court of the first instance of Kentron-Norq Marash communities Gayane Karakhanyan has sentenced Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan to two months’ imprisonment.

“Americans are making 236 million USD investments for Armenia's future well-being", announced Alex Rasin, head of the Armenian program of Millennium Challenges Cooperation.

Armenia is the forth country that will sign an agreement with the Russian Federation on social reforms, namely referring to the sphere of pensions.

“Zhirayr Sefilyan is not surprised by his arrest”, Vahe Grigoryan, Mr. Sefilyan's advocate informed A1+.

Armenian FMs found the position of the international institutions not to recognise the NKR referendum quite natural.

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Senate, having failed to confirm Dick Hoagland to serve as Ambassador to Armenia, returned his nomination to the President on December 8th, upon the adjournment of the 109th Congress, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) [Ho. He. Dashnaktsutyan Washington-ee Hai Tahd-ee Krasenyag].

Zhirayr Sefilyan, a veteran of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, a coordinator of a public organization “Protection of Liberated Territories” and commander of the Shushi battalion was not banished from Armenia yesterday. Today advocate Vahe Grigoryan has held a meeting with him.

The members of the initiative “Protection of Liberated areas” assume that Zhirayr Sefilyan hasn't been banished yet.

The Heritage Party issued a statement on Zhirayr Sefilyan's arrest which says;

Today, a number of parties and organizations have made a statement about the arrest of Zhirayr Sefilyan. It says:

During the Karabakh movement and the war everyone knew commander of the Shushi regiment Zhirayr Sefilyan. It was an honor to talk to him. But now when he criticizes the attitude of the RA authorities towards the Karabakh conflict, people have started to refute knowing him.

The quantity of the debt is not important: what is important is that in case of having debts the country is in better conditions than its neighbors. At least this is what our officials think when they speak about the external debt of Armenia mentioning “We have the best debt portfolio”.

«At night on December 9 15 masked people broke into one of the restaurants in Yerevan where coordinator of the initiative 'Protection of Liberated areas' Zhirayr Sefilyan was having dinner with his wife and friends. He was arrested as a most dangerous criminal.

During the latest meeting with the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were offered to hold their recurrent meeting in January.

“At this moment Zhirayr Sefilyan is being taken to the airport in order to banish him from Armenia”, announced leader of the party “Homeland and Honor” Garnik Margaryan immediately after the discussion of the Anti-criminal movement. As for who gave him the information, Mr. Margaryan avoided saying anything.

Zhirayr Sefilyan, coordinator of the initiative «Protection of Liberated Lands» and leader of NGO «Union of Armenian Volunteer», was arrested yesterday.

The NKR Constitutional Referendum took place. On August 10, at 07:30 p.m., 83.71% of the population had already voted. The polling stations were closed at 08:00 p.m.

Dramatic shutdown of popular TV station seen as blow to freedom of speech. Azerbaijan’s most popular and longest-running independent television channel, ANS, was unexpectedly closed on November 24, the culmination of a bitter dispute with the government.

Rustavi-2 television loses its fearless reputation. The television station that was at the forefront of Georgia’s Rose Revolution has lost audiences and its reputation for political investigation, amidst accusations of pressure from the new authorities.

In Armenian television today, the rules of news journalism are known to everybody. Journalists say it is a climate not of direct official control, but of pervasive self-censorship.

Today the special session of the Lori regional council took place which was convened by the heads of the communities. Although they had invited RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan to the session too, deputy Minister of Regional Government Vache Terteryan attended it instead.

Someone drops leaflets from the roof of a house. When people gather them, they see that they are empty. A person explains things, but even without that everything is clear. This was the example brought by leader of National Unity Artashes Geghamyan when the journalists were not active during the Parliament briefings. «It is clear for the journalists that the country is in a grave situation», he concluded.

Galoust Sahakyan claims he is totally unaware of the reasons of resignation of the governors of Lori and Armavir regions, who are members of the same Republican party. Asked how it is possible, he answered, «It is inexplicable: everyone does his own business».

The Republic of Armenia is still without a national anthem. The coalition parties, the Republicans and the ARF Dashnaktsutyun, have not come to an agreement in this connection. The ARF does not put up with the idea of making «Our Homeland» a transitional anthem, according to the Government offer.