Politics

“We understand that what Serzh Sargsyan said is a gesture without stepping back from his political positions. I am sure that even if tomorrow Gull comes, it will be a gesture too. If we were president, we would not invite him,” said the head of the ARF department on the Armenian issue Kiro Manoyan. This …

Candidate for MP in the Artashat 17th precinct Grisha Virabyan says that his decision to withdraw his candidacy is an act of protest against the opposition. “Even more, at this point the government turned to be more moral than the opposition because the government recognized me as their competitor and even suggested to meet and …

– Mr. Manoyan, the ARF has stated that it will initiate actions of protest f the Turkish President Abdullah Gull agrees to visit Armenia to watch the soccer match on September 6 as invited by Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan. Have you already decided what concrete steps you are going to undertake? – I don’t know …

It is hard for me to write about him because it seems I know him well. His first articles, which were published in the Lragir daily, may be considered the first pieces of the independent generation. In general, the revolutions, wars and women very quickly make the men mature. It happens so fast that he …

“The ARF is really developing a series of protest actions but we think that these actions will not just be for the young people or older people of the Dashnaktsutyun. It will be a pan-national action. I think every Yerevan resident will not mind participating in such actions. We are sure that thousands of people …

Assures the chairman of the Union of Political Scientists, coordinator of the roundtable on the examination of he events of March 1-2 Hmayak Hovhannisyan. By the initiative of the Union of the Political Scientists 7 working groups were established. Each of those groups is occupied by examining a version related to the events of March …

Yesterday at nearly 9:40 a.m. two unknown people beat up a journalist of the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Lusine Barseghyan. She was assaulted by unknown men as she left her parents’ apartment block in Yerevan in the morning. She said they kicked and punched her without saying anything. Barseghyan had numerous bruises on her head, arms …

Writer, essayiste and philosopher Ruben Angaladyan is surprised at the fact that during this difficult phase when there is a conflict between South Ossetia and Georgia our leaders are in vacation. – Mr. Angaladyan, you have numerously mentioned in your words that the highest value is the human being but indeed the recent developments in …

Yesterday the only opposition party represented in the parliament, the Heritage party, held its general meeting at the meetings hall of the government house. This event was unprecedented in the political field of Armenia and in consideration of the tense environment in politics. First, PM Tigran Sargsyan participated in the general meeting and made a …

Tomorrow the EU assignee on human rights issues Thomas Hammarberg will pay a three- days visit to Armenia. The EU statement informs that the purpose of his visit is to evaluate the progress in the investigation works of the March 1 events. “In my last report on Armenia I petitioned to conduct a comprehensive investigation …