Politics

Yesterday the NA Standing Committee on Legal Affairs in its closed session gave a positive opinion about President Serzh Sargsyan’s proposal to grant amnesty. After the session certain details were publicized, which shows that the main reason of this amnesty is to blow some air in the eyes of the PACE. The thing is that …

"I forgive all those who committed a crime against me by bearing false testimony or exhibiting enmity," defendant Alexander Arzumanyan charged under last year’s post-election unrest in downtown Yerevan announced during yesterday’s closing trial at Shengavit Court. The Court availed the defendant an opportunity to voice his "last word". "Who knows when I shall make …

Yesterday the NA Standing Committee on Legal Affairs in its closed session gave a positive opinion about President Serzh Sargsyan’s proposal to grant amnesty. Prior to that, it was known that the NA Speaker convened an extraordinary NA session on June 19, dedicated only to the amnesty issue. Yesterday at the end of the Committee …

– What issues have you discussed with the PACE co-rapporteurs John Prescott and Jorge Colombier? What matters were they most interested in? Have the co-rapporteurs expressed an opinion that during the amnesty all the suspects and imprisoned ones of the March 1-2 case should be released? – There was no conversation about the amnesty. But …

Last week we published information on the RPA’s efforts to recruit independent MPs in their faction and informed that the RPA had handed out documents to them to sign before joining their faction. However, the RPA’s efforts are not successful and according to our information only Hrant Vardanyan’s son (Karen Vardanyan) has joined the RPA …

According to the Foreign Policy magazine, the OSCE MG American co-chair Matthew Bryza may be appointed the US Ambassador in Azerbaijan. According to the mentioned magazine, the former direct boss of Bryza, the deputy state secretary Daniel Frid has recommended him for this position. However, neither Frid nor Bryza have commented on this news. The …

“I think that we will discuss the issue till the end of the week to make a political step,” said the head of Heritage party board Anahit Bakhshyan in answer to a question whether their party leader Raffi Hovhannisyan might accept the idea of joining Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s political power and making a joint opposition platform. …

By following the recent developments of Armenia and internationals ones it becomes possible to draw a very interesting conclusion and find a range of parallels. For example, during his rally on June 12 Levon Ter-Petrosyan presented an episode of a dialog he had had with one of the European diplomats. “When the diplomat pledged that …

Yesterday when speaking about the possibility of appointing the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza to the post of the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan the MP of the Heritage parliamentary faction Stepan Safaryan said, "All recent U.S. co-chairs of the Minsk group, including Steven Mann and Mattew Bryza, were experts on energetic …

Yesterday the last rally of the current political stage of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) took place in the vicinity of Matenadaran. The first president of Armenia announced a break in public rallies until September 18 as he repeated his call for all democratic political forces to rally around the opposition platform. “We have no …