Politics

Yesterday, the Azerbaijani electronic media sources reported that the Washington, DC, in fact, presented to Azerbaijan a tough ultimatum: it made it clear that if the republic “attempts a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the United States will recognize its independence.” The source claims that Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Tina …

“Yes, we do agree that there are still a lot of oligopolies and monopolies in Armenia,” Nienke Oomes, the resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Yerevan, told RFE/RL in an interview. By this, she was trying to comment on the World Bank’s managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s view that the Armenian economy is dominated …

And so, yesterday there were rumors in the media, according to which the US has threatened to Azerbaijan. In particular, the misinformation was that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Tina Keydenau issued the warning during a recent visit to the Azerbaijani capital. It cited Keydenau as telling Azerbaijani leaders that they should avoid attempting …

Yesterday the head of the Heritage faction Stepan Safaryan said that interesting and noteworthy processes are taking place regarding the NKR conflict resolution and that the possibility of war had increased. He finds the last statement of the special envoy of the EU in South Caucasus Peter Semneby quite noteworthy. He tried to convince the …

The fuss within the Social-Democratic Henchak Party (SDHP), which had been proceeding for months now, already peeks out from the inter-party circles. A former member of the Heritage Vardan Khachatryan, who had last week joined the SDHP, was banished from this party as well. The reasons are not that vital. In fact, it was part …

Vardan Khachatryan, an evictee from the Heritage party, was two days ago dismissed from the Social-Democratic Henchak Party, which he had joined two weeks ago. Let us remember that on its September 9 night session the Heritage party considered the functioning of Vardan Khachatryan as a party secretary “insufficient.” He was accused of fragmenting the …

In the past during the release of the state budget message in the section of foreign policy there was always been reference on the regulation of the NKR conflict resolution. “The peaceful and fair regulation of the NKR conflict,” as an example reads in the sample of the 2009 budget. In the budget message of …

Yesterday an outspoken newspaper editor and opposition figure Nikol Pashinyan currently on trial for his alleged role in last year’s post-election violence has made a bid to contest a parliament seat recently vacated by another prominent oppositionist, district 10 of Yerevan. In this regard the Armenian National Congress issued a statement, which reads, “The ANC …

Yesterday on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners the Armenian National Congress (ANC) activists and former political prisoners staged a protest in front of the RA Prosecutor’s Office. Let us mention that in Armenia there are still 17 political detainees. Protesters were carrying posters and chanting, "Freedom!", "Struggle till the …

– Mr. Manoyan, what steps will the ARF undertake to oppose the Turkish-Armenian protocols? Will there be any change in your tactics? Do you see any chance that the protocols will not be ratified? – I see such a prospect and that is the reason why we work in that direction. And our main tactics …