Politics

Recently the ARF members and the other members of the government coalition are delivering each other accusation messages and then they start to respond each other. It seems they are debating each other in an indirect way. The ARF expresses certain discontent to the activity of the government and the rest of the coalition members …

The head of Supreme Council deputy’s group Ruben Torosyan came up with an initiative to found a “national congress of journalists’ rights protection” early last week when journalist of Haykakan Zhamanak daily Lusine Barseghyan was beaten. After the violence against the chief officer of the Armenian Radio Liberty Hrach Melkumyan on August 18 Ruben Torosyan …

On Saturday newly established Liberal party of Armenia (LPA) held its founding meeting in the session hall of the government building. The founding meeting elected Hovhannes Hovhannisyan to preside the party. This party involves people who left Hovhannes Hovhannisyan’s party after he had some conflicts with the former secretary of that party and the incumbent …

The newly appointed US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovish will visit Yerevan in mid-September. This information was publicized yesterday by the US Embassy Charge’d Affairs Joseph Pennington. He also added that the appointment of the new Ambassador will be a step forward in the relations of the two countries. When speaking of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict …

To our question what the Armenian National Congress is going to do to “destroy” the state system, which has become “manageable” a member of the Congress, former Prime Minister of RA Hrant Bagratyan said yesterday, “First of all no one wishes to destroy anything. We wish to build a normal state and the Congress is …

On these days the political analytics of Armenia are busy with analyzing the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Moreover, the analysis proceeds in several directions – how will the conflict develop, what the influence is going to be on the internal and external policies of Armenia and whether the Armenian government adopted the right policy when dealing with …

The newly appointed CEC member from the Heritage Party Hovsep Khurshudyan has sent an open letter to the Chief of Police Alik Sargsyan, head of the National Security Service Gorik Hakobyan. He also sent the duplicates of the letter to the RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, to the head of the Supervisory Service of the …

Despite the allegations of the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan that the fire on March 1 wasn’t opened by the police and the army a member of the Armenian National Congress Hrant Bagratyan ensures that on March 1 no single policeman, soldier or statesman slipped. “The most surprising thing about March 1 was that …

During yesterday’s session of the commission in charge of investigating the events of March 1-2 the head of the Police expertise department Stepan Manukian gave information about the operations and work of his department in the morning of March 1 and made a number of sensational announcements. First, he said that he had been ordered …

Yesterday was the last day for withdrawing candidacies at the 17th precinct of Artashat. Candidate for MP Grisha Virabyan withdrew his candidacy, thus there will be only one candidate during the election to take place on August 24. This candidate who is going to run for parliament alone is the head of the president’s administration …