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In an interview given to 24 News, Tigran Avinyan, the mayoral candidate of the “Civil Contract” party, referring to the violations recorded by the observation missions during the pre-election campaign, questioned their impartiality and doubted their logic. “The organizations that present these data are not reputable; there are deep serious problems related to their impartiality

OC Media staff writer Ani Avetisyan and Daniel Ioannisyan, the programmes director of the Union of Informed Citizens, talk about the latest cases of police brutality and violence in Armenia and the progress made to reform the police since the 2018 revolution. https://uic.am/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CD_48_mixdown.mp3

During an interview with regional media outlet OC Media, Daniel Ioannisyan, a project coordinator with the Union of Informed Citizens, commented on My step faction’s decision on not holding snap elections. Armenia’s ruling My Step faction appears to have retreated from Pashinyan’s promise to hold snap parliamentary elections in 2021. «There is no demand for

RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) is the most preferred and trusted online media resource in Armenia, according to a new poll published by a leading local watchdog on Wednesday. A group of researchers working on a subgrant from the Union of Informed Citizens recently conducted a survey on the subject of media literacy among 1,200 respondents

The programs coordinator at Union of Informed Citizens, Daniel Ioannisyan, presented the results of a survey on the use of the media in Armenia and a study on the level of fake news. According to the results, the majority of people said that they trust their family members to provide them with news. Daniel Ioannisyan

Aravot daily had an interview with Daniel Ioannisyan, the Program Coordinator of the Union of Informed Citizens. We present the full interview below. – For the failure of the Electoral Code, you blamed also the government, in the face of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Recently you have made the following publication, “By unexpectedly bringing the

On November 27, parliamentary hearings were held at the RA National Assembly regarding the Draft on “Starting the Process of Terminating the Eurasian Economic Union Agreement on the part of Armenia” authored by “Yelq” parliamentary faction. Daniel Ioannisyan made a speech at the hearings as an invited expert. “Dear guests, I will try to concentrate

An Armenian NGO is in the authorities’ crosshairs after exposing what it describes as rampant electoral fraud by the ruling Republican Party. In late March, activists from Armenia’s Union of Informed Citizens (UIC) picked up their phones and dialled 136 schools across the country. Posing as members of the ruling Republican Party, they asked school

During the interview with Aravot.am  the spokesmen of “Independent Observer” public initiative Daniel Ioannisyan mentioned that in many polling stations there are fake observers, who have fake certificates, but are not signed in Central Election Commission: “It’s quite a gross violation when the candidate is at the polling station. I think so. And there are

After revealing evidence of electoral campaiging for Armenia’s ruling party by public sector employees, this NGO is facing a defamation suit and attacks in the press. Last month, Armenia held its watershed parliamentary election, initiating the country’s transfer to a parliamentary form of government. The process will be completed after next year’s presidential vote, when

Political forces competing with each other do not hold debates. Many spoke about it during the April parliamentary elections saying that we lack the culture of televised debates. A1+ Company has talked on the theme to on international relations Anna Pambukhchyan. She says political forces are afraid that they will be unable to present themselves

But police often intimidate those who make vote-buying allegations into retracting their accusations, said Daniel Ioannisyan, a representative of Independent Observer, a civil society organization monitoring the elections. “When citizens tell media that they were offered election bribes, even clearly giving the name of the candidate that offered the bribes, after their visits to the

YEREVAN — Centrist opposition leader Nikol Pashinian stands outside an office building in western Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia neighborhood, megaphone in hand, to take his criticism of the current government to the streets. Prime Minister Karen Karapetian stages public meetings in small towns across the country, where he endorses the right-wing, ruling Republican Party of Armenia and

Days before Armenia’s April 2 parliamentary election, over 100 school principals have been accused of illegal campaigning for the ruling Republican Party, following the release of audio recordings.

Larisa Minasyan, the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia, in an interview to 1in.am spoke about the availability of access to personal data of Armenian citizens for the Russian Federal Security Service. She mentioned in particular: “The fact that this data is accessible, is an ultimate violation of the personal data protection law.” The

RA National Assembly Deputy Edmon Marukyan has written a letter to the RA Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan related to the concern of the “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has access to personal data of citizens of the Republic of Armenia. In particular, Marukyan writes that this

Daniel Ioannisyan, Coordinator of the Union of Informed Citizens NGO, considers it unacceptable to include the Fifth Army Corps of Armenia into the group in the framework of creating a united group of Armenian troops, which in this case, according to Ioannisyan, will be under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation.  “During the war or

There is a 70 percent increase in exports from Armenia to the Eurasian Economic Union member states, the reason being Turkish products exported to Russia via the territory of Armenia: economist Andranik Manukyan, expert at the Union of Informed Citizens NGO, told in an interview to Tert.am. After Russian sanctions against Turkey, a number of

Daniel Ioannisyan, Program Coordinator of the “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO, representing the civil society in the format of 4+4+4, does not consider the publication of the voters lists in the elections substituted by ID cards and instead of taking the fingerprints of the voters an equivalent approach. Recall that a few days ago, the

Daniel Ioannisyan, Program Coordinator of the “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO, believes that the authorities will make concessions with regard to amendments to the Electoral Code. Note that co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee in fulfillment of commitments of Armenia, British Alan Mill and Italian Giuseppe Galati, agreed in their statement that as the Venice

Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union will greatly affect the country’s agriculture, army’s armament and banking system, says the coordinator of the Union of Informed Citizens NGO. Daniel Ioannisyan says today the Defence Army does not pay any money for the military equipment imported to the country while after the EEU membership Armenia will

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