Today morning the Armenian National Congress notified the City Hall of a March 1 rally in central Yerevan. The City Hall is to give an answer within 72 hours.

“We have never seen a draft law worse than this one, at least in the field of broadcasting. It resembles an ice-cream with the taste of borscht,” President of the Yerevan Press Club Boris Navasardyan said today when speaking about the proposed amendments to the Law on Television and Radio.

“If the Republic Party (HHK) Leader Galust Sahakyan wished, he could gather 44 signatures within five minutes to convene an extraordinary session with the participation of the Prosecutor General and three detained MPs,” Galust Sahakyan said in reply to A1+.

On February 5 the resident ambassador of Armenia to India Ashot Kocharyan presented his letters of credential to the King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin at Istana Negara, the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur.

The Orinats Yerkir Party (OYK) opens new structures abroad. For instance, recently an OYK office has been opened in the United Arab Emirates.

On February 6 Armenia’s parliamentary factions discussed the murder of deputy chief of the police Gevorg Mheryan gunned down at the entrance of his apartment late Tuesday.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh and Special Envoy for Georgia, Goran Lennmarker, said that there is a “good possibility” for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be solved this year, but “time is scarce” and it is now “critically important to seize the opportunity.” He made the statement in an interview for the OSCE PA web site.

“The PACE Monitoring Committee is keeping an eye on the Republic of Armenia and that implies our defeat. This means that the situation of human rights is not good in Armenia,” told “A1+” today RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan.

Will former Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan be released and will his case be quashed? This is what Judge Zhora Vardanyan will decide in his consultation room until February 11.

The National Security Service plans to open up a new operative-technical department with new specialists and authorizations and the RA President will appoint the head of the department. This department must be in charge of overseeing telephone conversations and take operative-investigative measures.

Announcing the U.S.-Armenia Partnership on the Biological Threat Reduction Program

“The best way of concealing crimes is to commit new ones,” said Armenian National Congress representative David Shahnazaryan today at the “Iravunk de facto” club with regards to the government’s strategy for the current situation of the country.

“The ARF has no plans to ensure the political activity of anyone, including Robert Kocharyan,” told “A1+” today ARF Bureau representative Armen Rustamyan. According to him, the ARF implements its policies through its ministers and deputies in government.

The National Assembly doesn’t want to hear political prisoners Sasun Mikayelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan and Hakob Hakobyan who were deprived of their liberty a year ago without any substantial reasons. The “Heritage” party has not been able to collect 44 signatures to convene an NA extraordinary session.

This resembles a stick that can be used at any point,” said Movses Hakobyan, a legal consultant of Internews Media Support NGO.

The Armenian Parliament is going to amend the Law on Television and Radio for the nth time. To put it mildly, the amendments are “overdue.”

Armenian courts have passed the toughest sentence upon 30-year-old Ara Hovhannisyan detainees in connection with March 1-2 unrest in Yerevan City.

Discussion of the updated package of amendments to broadcast legislation is on the agenda of the regular session of National Assembly of Armenia

The changes and additions foreseen in the Criminal Court Code under discussion in the National Assembly today are correlated to the fate of the “Case of Seven”. In the package deal, the government proposes to hold trials without the defendants. Everyone was for this change, except the “Heritage” party and independent deputy Victor Dallakyan.

Director General of the “Bjni” mineral water factory” CJSC Laert Harutyunyan mediated enforcement officer of the RA Justice Ministry’s Service for Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts Mihran Poghosyan to terminate the case of “Bjni” because the reserve price to be presented in the auction will be lower than the demanded amount.

People may see armed bailiffs welcoming them in court if the National Assembly confirms the government’s bill on making changes and additions in the “RA Judicial Code”.

The crime expert examination center of the Russian Interior Affairs Ministry has been assigned to carry out a trigger expert examination that was added as part of the inquiry of the criminal case under examination by the RA special investigative service in relation to the events of March 1.

Nearly 85 people have been deprived of their liberty in the wake of the events of 2008 March 1-2 based on articles 225 and 300 of the RA Criminal Code. They are the articles that the PACE demands revising in its Resolution 1643 approved on January 27 and the NA Chairman has promised to revise them as soon as possible.

Jirair Sefilyan’s fellow soldiers and followers have created the “Committee for Protection of the RA Civil Right of Jirair Sefilyan”.