Politics

The Armenian National Congress has published an announcement concerning the economic crisis in Armenia and possible negative results. Please find the full text of the announcement below: “The crisis in the republic is deepening day by day. It resulted in economic degradation in the last quarter of last year, reduction of production capacities in all …

Yesterday the minister of finances of Russia Alexey Kudrin stated that due to the international crisis the incomes of the Russian state budget will be cut by 40%. We are talking about a country, from which Armenia expects from 200 million USD to 1 billion USD help. It is obvious that Russia will give us …

The delegates of the Armenian National Congress, Levon Zurabyan and Arman Grigoryan have submitted a statement from the ANC to the EU institutions. The mentioned statement writes the opinion of the ANC concerning the resolution 1643. “We believe that the PACE resolution was adopted based on incorrect information, thus we are suggesting our ways and …

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev met yesterday at the Radisson Hotel in Zurich. The official release of the meeting in fact doesn’t contain too much of information. As the Armenian presidential press service reports, the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan started with the participation of the …

As it was expected the encouragement of the Armenian government regarding PACE resolution 1643 was first of all connected with the fact that it didn’t imply the term “political detainee.” The co-reporters on Armenia John Prescott and Georges Colombier made changes to it. This provision was not included in the resolution since the co-reporters reported …

Based on the announcement of Luis Maria de Puig and the discussion of the resolutions 1609 and 1620 we may assume that Armenia’s delegation to the PACE will not be deprived of the voting right. Before the PACE session Luis Maria de Puig made the following announcement: “As far as I know during the recent …

The last days of this month are going to be active because on January 27 the issue of depriving Armenia of the voting right at the PACE will be discussed, January 28 will be important for the conflict of Karabakh, and on January 29 the PACE will adopt a final resolution on Armenia. It is …

Armenia looked set to avoid sanctions by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly of (PACE) yesterday after pledging to enact legal amendment that could result in the release of dozens of arrested opposition members. According to Armen Rustamyan, member of the delegation, officials in Strasbourg feel that Armenia’s leadership now has the “political will” to …

The speaker of the National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan signed a decree on setting up a working group which will draft amendments to Article 225 and Article 300 of the Crime Code of Armenia. Under these articles charges were brought against most of the people arrested for March 1. The head of the working group is …

On January 23 President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on pardoning 16 more individuals arrested and convicted in connection with last year’s post-election violence in Yerevan, but the Armenian opposition insisted that only two of them are its supporters. The presidential press service said all of these individuals had appealed to Sargsyan for an amnesty. …