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The polls conducted by various organizations have controversial results. On one hand it turns out that 85% of the people are sure that the government is corrupt and on the other hand 40% is going to vote for either the RPA or Prosperous Armenia. Of course the government doesn’t agree with the first results and …

If you have noticed, every time on the threshold of elections new “traitors of the nation” appear in Armenia. This time that role was given to Artur Baghdasaryan. The latter, when talking “privately” to a high-ranking British diplomat, was trying to convince him that the West should provide very harsh reports on the coming parliamentary …

International monitors are thus far satisfied with the pre-election situation in Armenia. They state that they are not interested in the results of the elections. They are more interested in the pre-election process and are satisfied that the opposition is provided with sufficient airtime. In fact, the international monitors have all the grounds to be …

During the press conference given by the foreign affairs ministers of Armenia and Russia, Vardan Oskanyan and Sergey Lavrov, Oskanyan preferred to speak in Russian. The Mass Media representatives paid much attention to this fact, as was expected. However, we think this is not a grave thing and that there is no need to discuss …

Certainly the unexpected death of prime minister Andranik Margaryan will change some things in the inner political system of Armenia. Definitely there won’t be any changes in the economic sector of the country since the same government continues working. As for the political inner system, it will be changed as the leader of one of …

Stepan Zoryan wrote a small talk entitled “Tigran from Zangezur”. One day “bolshevik” Tigran was standing in their balcony and saw an archbishop walking in the street crowded by people. He didn’t like that “appearance”, went down from the balcony and hit the archbishop. “His hat flew away when I hit him”, says Tigran and …

The meeting of the RA Foreign Minister, Vartan Oskanyan with US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice almost overlapped with the release of the report of the US State Department 2006. Both events were equally important for Armenia but their comparison revealed a very interesting fact – the foreign policy of Armenia and the real issues of …

The key meaning of the pre-election situation in Armenia can be explained in one sentence: the authorities are doing their best to be reproduced. The problem is that the authorities are not trying to reproduce their power only, but they are trying to reproduce all the political system that exists now. To note, the governmental …

The fact that the “Alternative” movement opened the season of rallies definitely was symbolizing what will happen during the upcoming elections, i.e. the season of rallies was opened by a political organization that is not going to participate in the parliamentary elections. Certainly, there will be many rallies, meetings and speeches soon. However, it is …

Following the estimations of the international community concerning the high prices of pre-election campaign air broadcasting, the government did not wait long to answer. The answer can be divided in two parts: firstly, the president’s spokesman said that he was surprised to see complaining especially those politicians, who often go for vacation at expensive hotels …