Politics

On May 26 RA President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on ratifying the Statute of the National Security Council. According to the decree, the National Security Council shall reveal the problems existing in the domestic, foreign, military, political, social, food, energy, ecological, informational, demographic, scientific-technical and other spheres referring to security and protection of national …

Yesterday the only person, who made a speech at the 30th Assembly of the ARF was the representative of the ARF Bureau Hrant Margaryan, whose speech can be conditionally named as “Robert Kocharyan’s response to Levon Ter-Petrosyan.” This time again ARF proved that it has inseparable ties with Robert Kocharyan. Thus Margaryan, who represents the …

Yesterday the police chief of Armenia issued an order to dismiss the deputy head on operative service affairs of the Center community police department Taron Baghdasaryan. Now Taron Baghdasaryan is retired. He has become famous mainly after the events of March 1, during which he coordinated some actions in the North Avenue. According to another …

After the events of March 1 and the presidential election 2008 people have numerously said that the image of Armenia has suffered much as a result of those events. However, in fact it is very difficult to understand why the image of Armenia could suffer after the recent events. What are the specific scenes and …

Yesterday the president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan invited the members of the working group to discuss the recommendations made by PACE “about the democratic institutions in Armenia” article 1609. The working group presented to the president the main directions and activities for the implementation of the article. All the members of the working group were …

Two weeks ago the ombudsman of Armenia left for the United States to participate in the congress of the Armenian lawyers, where he met with officials representing the Human Rights Watch and the Armenian Assembly. Later Armen Harutyunyan left for Strasbourg to meet with the OSCE human rights assignee, the head of the AGO group …

“I think that the real reasons of this situation were the electoral violations and falsifications. It should be condemned,” said Albert Bazeyan to our correspondent. He says that the authorities are the ones who are usually responsible for such processes. “At any time, despite the fact who is in power or which political power is …

Since the recent appointments in the government and president’s office it is not clear yet who is ruling the real power and how this multi-color coalition and the state system will work. However, it is a fact that the governmental new “configuration” will include both the loyalists of the former president, the incumbent president’s old …

“The operation of March 1 in the Liberty square was not implemented by the state security service and the head of that service Grigory Sarkisyan did not coordinate that operation,” Armenpress was told by the state security service (SSS) in answer to the question of the ombudsman’s report on electoral and post-election processes concerning the …

Yesterday Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with the new British ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale. Ambassador Lonsdale said the UK is committed to sustaining the programs implemented in different spheres of life in Armenia in collaboration with the CoE and the World Bank. The British diplomat said the UK is not going to cut its …