Politics

The format and tactics of announcements about nomination of prosperous Armenia party candidate Samvel Balasanyan in Gyumri shows that the PA tends to be an alternative power. Earlier it was reported that Samvel Balasanyan had visited the president’s office, which was followed by an announcement on the part of the PA party to endorse Balasanyan’s …

– On July 17 the National security Service called Karine Haurtyunyan, a member of the Civilitas foundation’s board, to give testimony. What questions was she asked? – She was asked about our financial affairs, but as she had just recently joined the board, in February, she did not have much to say. That’s all. – …

On July 19, as a result of the presidential elections held in Nagorno Karabakh the incumbent president Bako Sahakyan was re-elected to his post by receiving 47,085 votes (66,70%). An army general Vitali Balasanyan placed the second in the race with 32,50% of the votes or 22,966 ballots. 0,8% or 594 voters voted for the …

Inteview with Dr Laurence Broers – the Caucasus Programme Projects Manager at British organization “Conciliation Resources” and author of projects about the reconciliation of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. – Dr Broers, many experts in Armenia think that the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh has already reached some level of democracy at the sense of freedom, human …

“The adoption of this bill was surprising because this year we quite much snow,” told our reporter the director of For the Sake of Sustainable Development NGO, former Minister of Nature Protection Karine Danielyan when was asked to comment on the adoption of the bill, dated June 22, that authorized to drain 320 million cubic …

As it was expected, the ANC’s initiative to organize an unscheduled session of the parliament to discuss the issue of the death in Harsnakar restaurant was failed. Instead of the necessary 44 signatures the initiators collected 21 signatures only. The main intrigue was the Prosperous Armenia faction’s behavior, which gave 7 signatures only. This initiative …

“If the ANC endorses Vartan Oskanyan’s candidacy during the upcoming presidential election, it will become something I don’t know what but will stop being opposition,” said ANC’s member Democratic Fatherland party president Petros Makeyan to our newspaper commenting on the rumors that agreement has been reached between the PA and ANC to support the PA’s …

The deputy minister of finance Vardan Aramyan has answered to the comments of Vartan Oskanyan on his facebook wall. Specifically concerning the observation that inflation of the national currency even increases the foreign debt load, the deputy minister said, “It’s correct that inflation even increased the load of foreign debt in foreign currency, but if …

According to our information, the authorities and national security services have appeared in a deadlock in connection with the case involved former foreign affairs minister Vartan Oskanyan and his Civilitas foundation. It is more than two weeks that no information has been published about that case and Oskanyan has not been called to be questioned …

“Armenia’s long-term and short-term development prospects as a developing country identify budget deficit, which will be sponsored on the account of inner and external sources. Continues works are done for the purpose of implementing the debt management strategy approved by the government, negotiations are being done with all bilateral and multilateral donors. We are choosing …