Politics

In parallel with the active development of political processes the former minister of foreign affairs Vardan Oskanyan is demonstrating rather socio-publicist activity. Recently he gave a large interview to the “Law de facto” newspaper and expressed his thoughts concerning the inner and foreign policy of Armenia. The most interesting point is that Oskanyan starts his …

A lot of people were waiting for today to see whether president Serzh Sargsyan would grant amnesty. Especially last week there were rumors in the government that on the Independence Day the president would issue a decree on granting amnesty. Even rumors said that in prisons the officials were preparing the documents of the people …

Recently the Central bank of Armenia came up with forecast stating that the economy would fall by 5.8%. However, during yesterday’s forum organized by the Policy Forum Armenia the CB vice president Vache Gabriyelyan said that he did not exclude the possibility that the slump would be higher. “During the year the economy may fall …

The chairman of the fact-finding group on the investigation of the March 1 events Vahe Stepanyan said that he was planning to quit working with the group. He informed about this during his interview to the Radio Liberty. He explained his decision with the situation created within the fact-finding group, which from time to time …

“We have the weapons, the tanks are ready and full of diesel oil, and now we should solve the problem of the air forces. If we solve the problem of one helicopter for three precincts, we will have solved the problem of all precincts with 100 helicopters,” said former mayor of Yerevan Suren Abrahamyan in …

The Gross Domestic Product of Armenia will reduce by 11% in 2009. During the economic forum organized by the Policy Forum Armenia this viewpoint was expressed by the former chairman of the Central Bank Bagrat Asatryan. The latter, by the way, praised the organization of the forum by saying that finally in Armenia the government …

– Mr. Abrahamyan, Levon Ter-Petrosyan in his speech often says that only a little part of the society is politically active. Does this mean that the ANC does not have enough supporters to coordinate them and win the city council elections? – One doesn’t have to know even about the surveys of Shota Vardanyans (he …

The fact-finding group of the events of March 1, after being forced to inactivity by the authorities, has been faced with a problem of dissolving. Vahe Stepanyan, the head of the fact-finding group and the head of the human rights defender’s office, has told the radio Liberty that he was going to quit his work …

Yesterday the NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan’s press secretary Nairi Petrosyan gave clarifications about the recent statement of Abrahamyan about the possibility of granting amnesty to certain prisoners. According to Petrosyan, “When speaking to the journalists NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan didn’t exclude the possibility of the amnesty by expressing his good will about that.” In the …

The advocates of Robert Kocharyan’s family Arpine Melikbekyan and Arayik Grigoryan submitted to the court the diplomatic passport of Levon Kocharyan, which doesn’t have any visa of the United Arab Emirates since the date of April 30 2008. This means that junior Kocharyan hasn’t left for UAE ever since. In parallel with that the advocates …