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![Punching ‘Not A Crime’
YEREVAN — Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) says it will not take disciplinary action against or criticize a controversial governor accused of assaulting a woman, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.
Eduard Sharmazanov, the chief HHK spokesman and a deputy parliament speaker, pointed out on December 19 that law-enforcement authorities’ had concluded that Surik Khachatrian’s actions did not break the law.
The Special Investigative Service (SIS) said last week that Khachatrian, who runs the southeastern Syunik Province, did hit businesswoman Silva Hambardzumian at a Yerevan hotel on November 14, just days after she accused him of business-related fraud…[READ MORE]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwi7gtHRp41qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Punching ‘Not A Crime’
YEREVAN — Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) says it will not take disciplinary action against or criticize a controversial governor accused of assaulting a woman, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.
Eduard Sharmazanov, the chief HHK spokesman and a deputy parliament speaker, pointed out on December 19 that law-enforcement authorities’ had concluded that Surik Khachatrian’s actions did not break the law.
The Special Investigative Service (SIS) said last week that Khachatrian, who runs the southeastern Syunik Province, did hit businesswoman Silva Hambardzumian at a Yerevan hotel on November 14, just days after she accused him of business-related fraud…[READ MORE]
