Tigran PASKEVICHYAN

I have not mentioned the Karabagh conflict settlement in the previous six sections of the series of articles, although the Armenian authorities of that time were always active in the negotiations process. The opposition was putting forward social and economic issues and sometimes used to their benefit the question of the settlement of the Karabagh …

Beginning in last five editions Some people reading this series of articles consider it as a late PR of the Armenian National Movement. Others say the opposite; they say that I am purposefully presenting the Armenian opposition so that the ANM can come out clean. Both viewpoints are wrong because I could have simply not …

Beginning in the previous four editions When Isaac Newton was writing his third law (F=-F), little did he know that many years later, the long-suffering Armenia would eventually become independent and that its political system would be formed with that letter of the law. Of course, the law constituted by the English scientist was so …

Beginning in previous two editions The change of power that was being planned was not going to be anything like “October 27”. The average partisans of the traditional political party used to tell me that there will be no bloodshed and that there may be one victim at the most. Time would pass before I …

Beginning in the previous two editions During the years of 1988 and 1990, the then almost hundred year-old national political party-the Armenian Revolutionary Federation which is proud of the fact that it was the founder of the first independent Armenian republic but in no way accepts that it played a large role in the decline …

Continued from previous edition The second stage of state construction in Armenia was supposed to begin after the ceasefire signed in May 1994. The first stage began in 1990 with the Supreme Council elections, approval of the Declaration of Independence which preceded the independence referendum and the first presidential elections of Armenia. These were electoral …

Vazgen Manukyan will most probably announce his decision to not participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections and this will signal the end of the Ter-Petrosyan era. It is not hard to guess what Vazgen Manukyan’s possible announcement has to do with the end of Ter-Petrosyan’s era, if the issue is observed in the context of …

Armenian Public Television broadcast a report on Sunday evening about the discovery of poison in maternal milk in the Ararat Valley. According to the reporter, the poison could have penetrated the milk as a result of the misuse of false pest-killers. Experts were expressing their opinions on the issue. Then Minister of Environmental Protection Vardan …

During a time when everyone in Armenia is getting ready for the upcoming parliamentary elections and with the current inter-political situation, it is hard, even impossible to decide who to vote for and for what. It seems as though everyone is talking about everything but not saying anything because you not only need a language …

I just checked the definition of the word “oligarchia” and it was the exact definition that I remember from sociology class: “a system of government in which power is held by a small group”. The reason for checking the edymology of the word has nothing to do with the upcoming parliamentary elections, although it could …