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Usually people discuss the political developments of the year and give estimations on the threshold of the New Year. Although the past year was full of developments, the most important developments that could happen didn’t take place. In 2005 two big “actions” were organized: the dance around the Aragats Mountain and the Constitutional referendum. And …

So, it turns out that Armenia will receive approximately 236 million dollars in the framework of the “Thousand Year Battles” project. This amount is a pretty large amount for our country; as a matter of fact, it is more than we expected. Of course, the president of the “Thousand Year Battles” corporation has sent a …

The OSCE Minsk group co-presidents visited the region. There are no elections and/or referendum in neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan and as stated during many international conferences, 2006 may be a good year for the Karabagh peace settlement. Meanwhile, the opposition is trying to understand what kind of evaluations international structures gave regarding the fraud which …

After the constitutional amendments referendum (not only the referendum but also the public meetings that followed and failed), the inter-political situation of Armenia changed. Of course, the authorities can gloat over the oppositionists claiming that they didn’t get what they wanted from the Western world, just like Kolya Ostenbaken got from Polish beauty Inga Zayontsits, …

Well, the constitutional amendments referendum is over. It’s history. So right now it doesn’t even matter whether the referendum proceeded in an environment of serious or minor violations, whether the number of violations were terrible or only slightly awful, etc. Indeed, the opposition gave only 72 hours to the CEC to consider the referendum results …

There are three days left until the constitutional amendments referendum and the protagonists of the political field have already made clear decisions. As to how clear the reasons are for those decisions, that is a different story. We understand why the president and the authorities are striving to pass the constitutional amendments. We understand why …

Ten days prior to the referendum the opposition gathered and petitioned people to boycott the referendum. The discussions on whether to vote “no” for it or boycott were over and they made a decision to boycott the referendum. And they will definitely choose the strategy of total boycott. This means that they will call their …

These days the Armenian authorities and the opposition are busy with two things: they are propagandizing the constitutional amendments and gloating over the comments made about the Azeri parliamentary elections by foreign countries. We can see things clearly if we separate these two activities, but if we put them together we get a discrepancy. Judge …

The propaganda for the constitutional amendments referendum has already made some errors. The most important one is that there is no television airtime provided for those who are against the amendments (or is partly provided). Besides that, different authority loops are trying to create obstacles for the opposition to not meet with the people in …

Of course the visit of the RA president Robert Kocharyan to Brussels was one of the main events of this week. By saying “main” I mean its political importance in the international community, because there are no facts proving that this visit was important for Armenia yet. Instead, we know that the president discussed the …