Politics

In answer to a question whether Moscow is concerned of the warm relations with NATO the foreign affairs minister said, “No, we don’t worry about it.” “We maintain good relations with the NATO member countries as well, we have a Russian-NATO council as well, we are also a member of the Euro-Atlantic cooperation as Armenia …

Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan says that he doesn’t believe the scenario announced by the head of the medical expertise center Shota Vardanyan, according to which the bones taken on video during the bloody events of March 1 were animal bones. To note, Shota Vardanyan has announced that according to their medical expertise the bones taken on …

Former foreign affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan says that the events of March 1 have seriously affected Armenia’s international reputation. He says that it will still stay affected unless the opposition activists and their loyalists are not released. Vardan Oskanyan says that he hopes the government of Armenia will give a place to their petitions and …

In the framework of his visit to Georgia the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan met with the students and professors of the State University of Tbilisi. “Starting from the first years of its independence one of the priorities for Armenia was to establish and continue good and friendly relations with other countries. Relations with Georgia …

After the recent session of the PACE Monitoring committee and the discussions on Armenia’s fulfillment of the resolutions 1609 and 1620 it was expected that during the next session they would adopt a document or another draft resolution on Armenia. However during yesterday’s session they did not adopt any documents on Armenia and the head …

Yesterday the former foreign affairs minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan denied the rumors that he was going to be the one to head the so-called third power, which the government had been trying to create for months now. However, he didn’t exclude that in near future he might participate in the political process of Armenia …

On Saturday there were local government elections in Kentron community of Yerevan, which came to prove that there is no democratic electoral system in Armenia. Almost all types of electoral violations such as ballot stuffing, intimidation and influence on proxies, armed attack on precincts, electoral bribe, open and multiple voting were done. As a result …

The court of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan has one more time delayed the trial of former deputy prosecutor general Gagik Jhangiryan. During the recent session the court questioned the witnesses. The next session of the court will take place on October 2. To note, Gagik Jhangiryan was arrested on February 23 and is …

The general prosecutor’s office of Armenia has published a statement, according to which the police has found and arrested former officer of the 10th department of the National Security Services Harutyun Gharibyan, who is accused in participating in the mass disorders of March 1 and was searched. On the same day he was charged under …

Journalists asked questions to former president Robert Kocharyan during the opening of the Saralanj highway and wandered what he thinks about the announcements of some people that “the nation should get rid of Kocharyan’s heritage”. “It is impossible to get rid of that heritage because it is first of all the developed Republic of Armenia, …