Politics

– Recently you said that Robert Kocharyan represents more danger to Serzh Sargsyan than Levon Ter-Petrosyan does. What is the real danger? Is it becoming more dangerous or no? – I think that the events of March 1 showed that Armenia cannot return to the status-quo that existed before those events. Due to this reason …

During the recent CIS summit in Bishkek the participants decided to establish an ad hoc commission consisting of the finance ministers of the CIS member countries to analyze the international financial crisis and related situations. “The ad hoc commission will be founded in connection with the situation in the world economy,” said the president of …

Yesterday during the meeting with journalists the coordinator of the Armenian National Congress Levon Zurabyan stated that the rally of the opposition will take place on October 17, during which the new strategy of the political struggle of the opposition will be presented. Zurabyan said the announcement of the new opposition strategy “will mark a …

Yesterday the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov held a trilateral meeting in Bishkek with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts discuss details of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace accord proposed by Russia and other international mediators. According to the Public Relations department of the RA Foreign Affairs Ministry RA Minister Edward Nalbandyan and Azerbaijani Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. …

Member of the ARF faction and the ad hoc commission in charge of investigating the events of March 1-2 Artusha Shahbazyan has said the following to panorama.am concerning Styopa Safaryan’s complaints that the commission does not meet their expectations: “I don’t know what the expectations of separate people were. It is not the first time …

According to president Serzh Sargsyan’s order the controller commission adjacent to the president’s office has supervised the mining plants in the administrative territory of Yerevan and adjacent areas, the extractions of which are mainly used as raw materials for construction and construction materials. Yesterday there was a meeting at the president’s office to discuss the …

According to our information the newly appointed president’s chief of staff Karen Karapetyan yesterday met with the staffers of the president and declared that he had restricted the working routine and that he would personally follow that all his demands are taken into account. One of Karpetyan’s demands is punctual attendance to work at 9 …

On Sunday three American experts who participated in an independent inquiry into the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States arrived in Yerevan to help launch a similar probe of the post-election violence in Armenia and participate in the sessions of the RA committee on investigation of March 1 events. The U.S. embassy …

Yesterday three American experts who participated in an independent inquiry into the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States arrived in Yerevan to help launch a similar probe of the post-election violence in Armenia and participate in the sessions of the RA committee on investigation of March 1 events. Two of them, Christopher …

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has met with the newly appointed Ambassador of the United States in Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch. During the meeting the Ambassador and prime minister also discussed issues concerning the implementation of projects sponsored in the framework of the Millennium Challenges project. The PM said that he hopes that this issue will …