Politics

On January 7 political prisoner MPs Sasun Mikayelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan and Hakob Hakobyan applied to the speaker of the parliament Hovik Abrahamyan to call an extraordinary session and provide the participation of the prosecutor general and the political prisoner MPs. About one year ago, on March 4, 2008, Aghvan Hovsepyan applied to the parliament with …

Each period of history has its own code of ethics. Let’s say during the rule of Louis XIV people knew that it’s not polite to kill a moth that would run over your body while having dinner at the table. Now this manner is ridiculous and outdated. However, this situation, which is constrained to the …

The pre-election lists submitted to the Central Electoral Commission for the upcoming May 31 mayoral elections in Yerevan contain names of many artists and people, who are known as intelligentsia representatives. Furthermore, such intelligentsia representatives are mostly the ones who have been actively involved in pre-election campaigns in the past and advocated for the pro-government …

– Recently when speaking of the upcoming May 31 mayoral elections you have mentioned that they will proceed in the same manner as always. What exactly did you mean? If you mean systematic violations then do you think people will live with those or do you think the tragic events of March 1 will repeat …

Heritage party made a decision on Sunday not to participate in the mayoral election in Yerevan. A statement recently released by the Heritage writes that they are not going to participate in the mayoral elections of Yerevan and wish the other political parties a good luck. “Let the will of the Yerevan people win on …

On May 4 seven political powers applied to the Central Electoral Commission to take part in the mayoral election of May 31. The mentioned parties are the following: RPA, PA, Legal State, ARF, People’s Party, Armenian National Congress and Labor and Socialistic Party of Armenia. There are many new things in the electoral lists of …

The fact that some political powers criticized the decision of Heritage party and its will to have an independent opinion stands for the fact that the political field of Armenia is very primitive. I don’t know whether it would be good if the Heritage and ANM participated in the mayoral elections with a joint list, …

In a highly controversial but anticipated ruling, the Yerevan court of Kentron-Marash presided by judge Zhora Vardanyan yesterday sentenced Gagik Jahangiryan, a former deputy prosecutor-general linked to the Armenian opposition, to three years in prison for allegedly resisting police during his arrest last year. The court convicted Jahangiryan under a corresponding article of Armenia’s Criminal …

After long-lasting sessions the Heritage party finally decided on Sunday not to run in the mayoral election of Yerevan to take place on May 31. Prior to that the version of not running was not quite possible. Was it a priority to run alone or in the same list with the Armenian National Congress? During …

During yesterday’s EU summit in Brussels the 27 member states of the EU approved the Eastern partnership project aiming at developing closer strategic relations with six post-soviet states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus). The mentioned project’s main objective is the following: “Strengthen stability, effective management and economic development in countries having strategic significance …