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The district elections and the propaganda for the constitutional amendment referendum were the two top stories of the week concerning internal politics. Nothing unusual happened during the district elections. Perhaps the results were a surprise, but the environment as a whole was just the way it was supposed to be. The struggle was going on …

As it was expected, the meeting of Kocharyan and Aliev in kazan had no results. Actually they noted once more, that the parties were not ready yet to take actions and make agreements. The authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan currently have more important problems: Aleiv must try to falsify the forthcoming parliamentary ellections results without …

The National Assembly did not hold an exclusive session for discussing the return of deposits to the people. A couple of days before the session, President Robert Kocharyan had announced that we have a large number of deputies who are reasonable, and believe it or not, he was right. In just two days the number …

Even though the long awaited “heated political meetings” did not take place, however, the last week of November was full of political events. In addition, perhaps those events might be looked at as having nothing to do with one another from first sight, but the order in which they follow says a lot about the …

The Ukrainian “blonde heads revolution” is in the process and it is going along very smoothly and it follows the Georgian scenario. You have the same thousands of people gathering at the central street, the same slogans, the same Georgian settlements, etc. The only thing different is that now you have Yulya Timoshenko instead of …

Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan has announced that if Azerbaijan continues to move the Karabagh peace settlement negotiations to another level, Armenia may look over its orientation towards the whole settlement. This can be considered as sensational. The following is what that announcement means. If Azerbaijan tends on solving separate issues concerning the Karabagh conflict out …

Why did the Chief of National Security Services Carlos Petrosyan get removed from office? It is very hard to answer this question because it is not clear as to what his department workers were doing during his time in office. Was he involved in national security? Was he gathering compromits? Was there a state racket …

We should not make a big deal out of the loss of the Armenian soccer team. Our team plays the best it can. We should not analyze the game based on the sport reporter’s comments such as “the boys were not physically prepared for this, the loops were weak, there were many defects, the trainer …

For over a week, the Armenian political mentality is focused on trying to understand why the whole world wants Armenia to remove its military bases from the liberated lands and why Davis’s speech was so “dirty”. The political mentality has been divided into two parts. The opposition thinks that the reason for the present situation …

After Chief Secretary of the European Union Terry Davis made a terrible speech on the Karabagh conflict in Paris, vice president of the National Assembly Tigran Torosyan gave a “counterblow” by stating that that speech had no legality. Thus, there can be no discussion about the delegation’s defeat. Let’s not forget to mention that despite …