Politics

Privileges of demoralization

25.09.2008

For the sake of the president of the republic, friendship with the famous oligarch, for the sake of deserving their cordial smile or for being specially noticed during some public event our well-known politicians, representatives of intelligentsia and all those, who have such opportunities, push each other in order to benefit from chance without signifying …

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Ararat Zurabyan: “Kentron community will be the beginning of victory”

25.09.2008

– In fact the local government election of Kentron community is the biggest event after the recent presidential election and March 1 clash where the government and opposition will have to meet face to face. Do you think that the authorities have overcome the syndrome of the past elections and will they let normal elections …

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Offshore scenes

23.09.2008

Yesterday the president of the Audit Chamber Ishkhan Zakaryan presented the results of the audit in the ministries of development planning and agriculture and the program of central heating of the city, financed by the World Bank. Besides, Zakaryan said in a week the results of the audit of the regional administration and communities, and …

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“Money turned back in to budget”

23.09.2008

Yesterday for the first time the head of the Audit Chamber (AC) Ishkhan Zakaryan made a report. He presented the results of the audit of 2008 in the in the ministries of urban development and agriculture and the program of central heating of the city and presented quite interesting facts. He first spoke about the …

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Former MP Vahe Hovhannisyan: “Being MP does not change anything in my life”

23.09.2008

– Why did you drop your MP’s mandate? You haven’t commented on your decision yet but there are different rumors about the reasons why you did that. – I resigned in May of this year due to two main reasons: I don’t want to work in the parliament, neither I want to occupy any state …

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Working on memorandum

23.09.2008

According to Turkish daily Sabah the diplomats of the Turkish and Armenian foreign affairs ministries are working on a memorandum of developing relations between the two countries. According to the daily, the talks and conversations between the foreign affairs ministers of Armenia and Turkey which lasted about 2,5 hours after the soccer match in Armenia …

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Ombudsman concerned

23.09.2008

Yesterday the Ombudsman of Armenia made a statement, in which he asks the public committee on the events of March 1 also include in their examination the preliminary report and the video presented by the opposition. On September 10 the public committee to investigate into the events of March 1 and 2 presented a preliminary …

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Did the fear turn into reality?

23.09.2008

During September 11th session of the PACE Monitoring Committee held in Paris, Thomas Hammarberg, CoE High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave a 10-mintute talk on the report of Armenia’s compliance with the requirements of the PACE Resolutions # 1609 and 1620. Although that report wasn’t very positive about Armenian government however it didn’t contain any …

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How it happened

23.09.2008

Before issuing their interim report it would be enough for the temporary NA committee on the investigation of March 1 events to watch the 25-minute video, which was showed on September 10 by the opposition working group on the examination of the tragic events. That video clearly highlights in red the scenes where the police …

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Undermined complementarism

23.09.2008

When Serzh Sargsyan announced about his “football initiative” to help the relations between Armenia and Turkey during his visit to Moscow several months ago, the first imagination was that the new government of Armenia, which had not clarified its relations with the new Russian government yet, was initiating some demarche. Such opinions seemed to be …

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