Politics

Since 1996 the efforts of the Armenian government have been mainly targeted at keeping stability in the country. The presidents have been spending their energy on proving their legitimacy and weakening the inner tension. Definitely this is the reason why the foreign policy of Armenia has been fragmental, and even some analysts say that such …

During its yesterday’s session the NA Temporary Committee investigating the results of March 1-2 developments touched upon the circumstances of the death cases and the results of the forensic expertise. For that purpose the committee invited the Director of the Scientific-Practical Center of Forensic Expertise Shota Vardanyan. The latter firstly announced that by now the …

Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan will make a working visit to the southern Russian City of Sochi on September 2. The presidential press office told that in Sochi Sargsyan will have a meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. It said they will discuss Armenian-Russian strategic partnership, issues pertaining to Armenia’s rotating chairmanship in the CSTO and …

I believe that unless we diagnose the situation correctly, we won’t know how to react and how to position ourselves. This is not about Abkhazia or S. Ossetia. It’s about Russia and the US, Russia and Europe. It’s about spheres of influence. What happened yesterday is a small segment of a much larger and potentially …

We asked Galust Sahakyan to comment on the police attack early this week in the North Avenue of Yerevan. “I have no information about those events. Why do you think that any event happening in Armenia should become a topic of discussion in the world? The opposition is making critical steps now. The world is …

When the Regnum news agency asked about Armenia’s stance on Russia’s behavior in terms of recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Head of Media Relations Division of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tigran Balayan, said: “Armenia has always backed and remains confident that the military way of conflict resolution is …

Over 1 month passed since the Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg and President of the PACE Luis Maria de Puig visited Armenia and only two weeks is left before the next PACE session on September 11. During their meeting with the government representatives of Armenia the officials of the PACE adverted to the PACE …

The head of the Armenian Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan believes that the co-reporters will mainly focus on the issue of releasing political prisoners during the PACE monitoring commission session on September 11. However he says that it is hard to say what the reaction of the Armenian government and co-reporters will be. Even during the …

The US charge d’affaires Joseph Pennington has commented on the rumors in media that the difficulties in the relations between Russia and US will result in impossibility of continuing the work of their co-chairmen within the OSCE commission and said that the policy of the US concerning the conflict of Karabakh has not changed. It …

A number of Armenia, Turkish, Georgian and American organizations have made an announcement petitioning to open the Armenian-Turkish border at least for 10-15 days in consideration of the fact that as a result of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict the countries of South Caucasus have appeared in transport crisis. As result of the crisis, which due to …