Politics

“It is really a pity that such big politician, with such mentality of a restaurant client, is trying to enter the first line of the political elite and manage a power, which tends to be not the first but the second power in the country, and is comparing sociology with a restaurant band and thinks …

“There are contradictions in the Congress regarding the foreign political issues of Armenia, Armenian-Turkish relations and NKR conflict resolution,” yesterday told our reporter Zhirayr Sefilyan, the head of the initiative group of the Armenian Volunteers Group, which is a member of the Armenian National Congress. He also added that he is against the quick opening …

Today the meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev will be held in Prague in the framework of the Eastern Partnership Program of the EU. Almost everybody is pretty optimistic about this meeting, starting from the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group finishing with the US State Department and …

“The ANC, excluding one of the organizations in the congress, is for prompt development of the Armenian-Turkish relations and is ready to support the Armenian government in relation to this issue,” said the first president of Armenia during the recent rally of the opposition. Following the rally this suspected organization or person was discovered, thus …

British journalist Thomas De Vaal, who is an expert on Caucasus and the author of the “Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan in Peace and War” book, has published an article in The Financial Times, which is entitled Let the Ghost of War Sleep in Caucasus. The article specifically writes the following: “While the world is …

On Tuesday Armenia officially stated that it refuses to take part in the military trainings of NATO launched yesterday in Georgia. According to the Interfax the RA Ministry of Defense only said the following in this regard, “we refuse to participate based on the existing circumstances.” That’s all. They don’t simplify what is meant by …

On Saturday the official campaign of the mayoral election of Yerevan was launched. On the very first day some of the parties, which were running in the race, held meetings with their “electorate.” And if the meetings of the governmental parties would only outstand by the fact as in the best tradition people would be …

“We find this issue (Karabakh conflict) can be settled based on the principles of territorial integrity, self-determination of nations and exclusion of power application. We concluded the year of 2008 with the document of the OSCE foreign ministers’ summit, where these three principles are considered as the grounds of settlement. These are the basic principles …

At the end of the week, Serzh Sargsyan will leave for the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, where according to the president’s press service he will participate in events dedicated to the victory of the Great Patriotic War, establishment of the NKR army and anniversary of the Shushi liberalization. It’s not hard to assume that Sargsyan …

Yesterday the ARF launched the pre-election campaign for the upcoming council elections of Yerevan in Moscow cinema house. Before the ARF people would gather in the hall, they showed a short film about Hrand Dink, the main idea of which was the following: “One more Armenian killed with the hand of the Turks.” There was …