Politics

– What do you think about Serzh Sargsyan’s announcement that he will invite the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to take part in the Armenian-Turkish border opening ceremony? – It was a small payback to the permanent militant statements on part of Ilham Aliyev. It was a small prick to Aliyev. – Do you think …

On February 2 the PACE co-rapporteurs John Prescott and Georges Colombier released a statement, by which they demand that “the Armenian government shall immediately abide with all the suggested reforms.” The statement related to the implementation of the social-economic and legal-political recommendations of the report of the ad hoc commission on the investigation of the …

“There is an improvement in the process of negotiations of the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” said Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday. “We are trying to help the Armenia and Azeri parties to come to a common agreement,” said Lavrov in his speech at the security conference in Munich. “Certainly it is a …

– There are different opinions about the elections in Ukraine, and people believe with the victory of Yanukovich Russia won the Western powers in Ukraine. Others believe the West does not attach much importance to revolutions as a tool of taking the power, and the situation in Ukraine proves this opinion. As you know the …

“We don’t want anyone to believe that under the pressure of April 24 Turkey will do steps, in which it does not believe,” said the Turkish foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu after his visit to Munich, where he had a number of meetings with officials from different countries. In the end of the last week it …

In the end of the last year Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated that starting from then the government will strictly fight against monopolies and oligopolies. Days after this statement Sargsyan corrected his words by saying that fight against oligopolies doesn’t imply fight against oligarchs. This was one of the few cases when Sargsyan was telling …

The RA government has sent two draft laws on trademarks to the parliament. The first one is entitled “Geographic marking” and the second one “Trademarks”. In fact these bills are discussed for the purpose of making the scope of trademark users in Armenia narrower. Specifically, it serves for the purpose of giving the trademark of …

As you know, the government started the year with the lofty speeches of fighting against monopolies and oligopolies. Of course the majority of Armenian citizens were listening to these promises with lenient smiles by knowing for sure that such a thing is not going to happen in the near future. But few people would think …

French composer Michel Legrand criticized Turkey during his tour to Krasnodar city of Russia. Commenting on the attempts to normalize the relations between Armenia and Turkey he said, “What happened in 1915 is unbearable, and the fact that Turkey does not want to recognize the Genocide means that this country will never enter the EU. …

The authorities of Armenia are ignoring (or at least they show that they are ignoring) the draft presented at the PACE by the head of the Swedish delegation to the PACE, in which the involvement of the army during the events of March 1-2 is considered as an action “containing components of state revolution”. The …