Politics

The Azeri foreign minister Edward Mamediarov has been invited to the US but the dates of the visit are not clear yet. This information was provided yesterday by Terry Davidson, the spokesperson of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan. He also said that the Azeri foreign minister would also have a meeting with the US Secretary …

During the opposition’s recent rally at the Matenadaran ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan paid a special attention to the improvement in the Armenian-Turkish relations. According to Ter-Petrosyan, the ANC is not only for developing the relations, but also is ready to support the government in connection with any positive policies. In his speech Levon Ter-Petrosyan said, “Unlike …

Leon Ter-Petrosyan’s speech concerning the Armenian-Turkish relations during the opposition’s recent rally should have been a reason for the ARF to revise its policy in relation to the Armenian National Congress and ARF board member Armen Rustamyan’s announcement. Specifically in his announcement Armen Rustamyan said, “We have big conflicts of opinions with the congress (in …

Perhaps it is natural to assume that in order to come to contents resolution we should go through the process. However, for Turkey the activation of the Turkish-Armenian relations has always been a goal and not a means. On one hand the Turks perfectly understand that their pre-conditions, according to which Armenia should refuse the …

First, I would like to congratulate you and our entire nation on the International Day of Worker’s Solidarity, the relevance of which has particularly increased with the sad reality Armenia currently finds itself in. Exactly two months have passed since the rally on 1 March, which is not a long period, but it has been …

It took less than a week to get convinced that the fact of turning to opposition of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation was just another show on the threshold of mayoral elections, which simply overlapped with the process of negotiations of Armenia and Turkey. Yesterday from the name of the governing coalition the chairman of the …

“For instance, we think that in the process of these negotiations the number one objective of Turkey was to stretch time. Our government thinks that it wasn’t Turkey’s priority. We think that if the estimations are made in a wrong manner the government makes incorrect and inadequate solutions,” told our reporter Stepan Safaryan from the …

Compared to 2007 the number of people, who consider the post of the mayor a political one, has decreased by two times. But half of the voters still consider the mayor’s post a political one. Moreover, 12% of the 50% prefers an oppositional mayor; 20% of them prefer a mayor from the government and only …

Although on Monday the ARF declared about its decision to deflect from the governing coalition and becoming an opposition party and although on that same day the three ministers of the ARF, the governor, NA deputy-chair and the chairmen of the three NA standing committees submitted requests of resignation this oppositional party may still maintain …

According to well-informed sources, the chief of the National Security Service Gorik Hakobyan will be fired soon. There are two potential candidates for this position: the incumbent prosecutor general Aghvan Hovsepyan and former head of the customs department Armen Avetisyan. It is not excluded that this may be connected with a recent incident when a …