The recent personnel purge most likely has a different implication than the officially stated reasons and what can be seen, Artyusha Shahbazyan, Press Secretary of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) parliamentary faction, told a press briefing in Parliament.

Without going into details concerning the “implication,” he pointed out that Armenian society, in breathless suspense, has been watching the reshuffles, hoping for positive changes and end to the atmosphere of impunity. “All this is evidence our people’s cup has been filled up,” Shahbazyan said. The jungle law is in effect in Armenia, and disputes are, as a rule, “settled by club law.”

NEWS.am reminds readers that Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan was forced to resign after a scandal involving violence against a staffer of the RA Presidential Protocol Department.

The following day, RA President Serzh Sargsyan dismissed Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan. The official reason stated by RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan was “violating ethical norms” by not punishing Chief of the Enforcement Service Migran Poghosyan for “violating ethical norms.”