Politics

The National Press Club has made a statement concerning the court’s decision sentencing opposition activist Nicol Pashinyan to seven years of imprisonment. “The accusation of provoking public disorders is nothing else but the right of a journalist’s conscious and independent opinion, receiving and spreading ideologies and being loyal to those ideologies provided by the 19th …

– Mr. Ayvazyan, last year information was published, according to which the government had developed a new package of tax law recommendations to the parliament for the purpose of reducing the VAT from 20% to 18%. Has there been such initiative? – Yes, it mainly concerns the new package of tax legislation. The laws of this …

The appointment of the NDU chairman, former politician Vazgen Manukyan as a head to the meaningless state structure called Public Chamber was appointed with pity by many people. Finally the long wished and only dream of Manukyan came true. He became a president of something. However, it turns out that this aesthetic pleasure of Manukyan …

On January 10 the by-election for the vacant mandate in the National Assembly had a quite different sensitivity compared to the previous elections. A young man was nominated, who is in prison with a senseless accusation; has three children, who theoretically had an opportunity to be free if had won the race. It means that …

The government of Armenia has provided the Public Chamber with office premises located on the 6th floor of Erebuni Plaza hotel, in neighborhood with the office of former president Robert Kocharyan. The Public Chamber occupies four rooms on this floor, which is decorated luxuriously. One of the rooms with a reception room is for the …

After the visit of Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov to Armenia the politicians of Armenia’s governmental team are in exhilaration. One by one they exclaim sounds of joy by saying that not only did Vladimir Putin after the meeting with Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan announce that the settlement of the Turkish-Armenian relations and the …

“Although Russia has the greatest potential for reaching an agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, its mediator possibilities are not unlimited,” during her interview to the Trend News said the Europe Program Director at International Crisis Group Sabina Freiser . "Russia’s ability to actually push through an agreement is perhaps the strongest among all …

The report of John Prescott and Georges Colombier, the PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs on Armenia, which had to be published on December 17 but was not, is available now. We were told about this by the ARF representative in Armenia’s delegation to the PACE Armen Rustamyan. At the session on December 17 John Prescott and …

When last week the PACE’s two c0-rapporteurs on Armenia, John Prescott and Georges Colombier didn’t present their report on the report of the parliamentary committee on the investigation of the March 1 tragic events because of “strictly justified reasons” the governmental elite of Armenia got very encouraged and felt well complimented. The committee was due …

Andranik Kocharyan and Seda Safaryan, members of the Fact-Finding Group on investigation of the March 1 events, dissolved several months ago, are planning to present a new report at the beginning of the next year. As a member of the Fact-Finding Group Seda Safaryan told our reporter yesterday that the report will include inclusive issues …