Politics

Yesterday the former head of the Heritage parliamentary faction Raffi Hovannisian said that the Heritage, the Armenian National Congress and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) should now put aside their differences and start “a series of consultations” aimed at creating a “new cooperation framework.” “I think that cooperation is necessary,” he said. “I, for example, …

On June 6 Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on declaring invalid the executive order on "Creating a Fact-finding group of experts and confirming the procedure of organization of its activity" dated October 23, 2008.

The events, which took place during May 31 city council elections originated serious speculations within the members of the ruling collation – the RPA and the Prosperous Armenia. These speculations and conflicts are at present more covert but will soon have a more public and open character. The evidence of that is the fact that …

The former head of the Heritage faction of the parliament, the founder of Heritage party Raffi Hovhannisyan refused to comment on their party member Zaruhi Postanjyan’s critics addressed at the Armenian National Congress and said that the ANC “had made crucial strategic mistakes during the recent elections.” Last week Zaruhi Postanjyan said that the ANC, …

The books of classic writers are very cheap in book stores and Vernisage. For instance, the separate collections of the books Dostoevski and Chekhov cost as much as the price per vote during the past city council elections, i.e. around 3-5,000 drams. It is understandable that the voters who took bribe were not going to …

“The outcome of Yerevan city council elections proved that the Armenian National Congress as a political force is not strong enough and doesn’t enjoy the trust of our population,” “The ANC didn’t pass the test of claiming to be the only oppositional force in Armenia.” These statements belong not to let’s say the chairman of …

“I think that the articles that are imposed against them are pretty stern. And I don’t think that amnesty will be granted to the ones, who were sentenced to 7-10 years of imprisonment,” several days ago said NA MP Davit Harutyunyan when answering the question whether amnesty will be granted to NA MP Khachatur Sukiasyan …

Yesterday a Yerevan court of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities made a verdict of 3.6 million AMD fine, 75.000 AMD state penalty against the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper. Reminder: The “Haykakan Zhamanak” daily claimed on February 6 that Levon Kocharyan was detained by the Dubai police following the incident. Kocharyan denied the report and demanded a retraction. …

The parliamentary member of the Heritage party, Zaruhi Postanjyan stated, “We witnessed at the Yerevan Mayor election that the Armenian National Congress is not a real political force. There is a huge oppositional mass electorate in Yerevan. The election, of course, was rigged but the opposition was unable to take care for its votes. And …

– Before the mayoral elections all political powers believed that if Armenia failed to conduct fair elections Armenia’s reputation would suffer significantly. Despite the massive electoral violations after the elections the European monitors and authorities announced that this election was a step toward improvement. Do you think there has been improvement? What is that improvement …