Politics

The parliamentary election campaign is coming to the end and now we see that it again proceeded in an environment that is characteristic to elections in Armenia. The most positive thing in this campaign was the comparative equal access and opportunity of political powers to the media and TV sector. As during the past elections, …

During a meeting with voters president Serzh Sargsyan petitioned everyone to work and struggle together for the purpose of justice for everyone. “For me everyone is ours,” said Serzh Sargsyan. “During the liberation war of Artsakh we were not asking whether people were from Artsakh, Goris, Yerevan, Hrazdan or Gyumri. All we were in one …

Yesterday during the briefing with journalists the US Ambassador to Armenia John Haffern said the following when was asked what problems he had detected during the pre-election campaign in Armenia, “We try to be optimistic and see the light side.” In the meantime, he highlighted that there are certain concerning matters as well, which relate …

Information is power. The competition of ideas makes all of us stronger. Few people can make a living, educate their children, or promote their ideas and interests with government officials without a healthy supply of free-flowing information. Citizens need accurate, timely, independent news they can trust to engage in the policy discussions and public debates …

“Ultimately we must be able to have a government which will not lack trust of people. A government that is elected fairly and in transparent conditions can do even more,” said president Serzh Sargsyan during a meeting with voters in Kotayk region. It is interesting that the president advised the voters of Kotayk region especially …

In the 4th precinct of Arabkir community the ARF will support Satik Seyranyan’s candidacy, who is the chief editor of 168 newspaper and is a non-partisan candidate. Such announcement was made recently by ARF bureau member and coordinator of the party’s pre-election campaign Aghvan Vardanyan. “One of the candidates is Artak Sargsyan, who is known …

Radio Liberty has covered the analysis entitled “test for the Armenian society”, which was published by Sergey Markedonov, a Russian expert living in Washington. This work covers he pre-election developments and processes in Armenia. According to the expert, the situation is getting even tense because of the fact that the political affiliation and party belonging …

The OSCE/ODIHR has recently published its second interim report on elections in Armenia. It has noted cases where campaign provisions of the Electoral Code were violated. The report mainly cited the following: “The violations include campaigning in schools, teachers and students being asked to attend campaign events of the Republican Party of Armenia… Some cases …

“The enemy will get an adequate answer for the incidents that happened on the borderline,” announced president Serzh Sargsyan during a meeting with voters in Dilijan commenting on the incident at the Armenian-Azeri border several days ago. Two days before that meeting there were shootings at the kindergarten of Dovegh village, and shortly three army …

The Prosperous Armenia party will record the voting process on May 6 from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. in all the 1982 precincts of Armenia, that is the ballot counting. This was informed by the campaign office of the PA. The campaign also points out that the party won’t pay any money for cameras and …