Politics

Tomorrow our strategic partner Russia will hold presidential elections, during which indeed the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will have victory. Not only Russian but also certain Armenian political circles will closely follow these elections. The essential part of the Armenian political circles – both opposition and government connect their future with Russia and with …

Literally two days ago the family of one of the most prominent economists of our country left for Germany – the economist, his wife and three children. It is clear that the tickets were one-way. The people, who were seeing them off, had told that together with them a group of violinists was leaving too …

Armenia in the pre-election period has turned into a real funny theater. The environment that drives Armenia to parliamentary elections is like laughing at their own people. One of the most discussed issues in the political agenda is the next parliament, which is becoming clear as the government representatives make announcements about people to be …

– Your visits to different regions with Ministers and RPA faction deputies, meetings with RA regional structures and people, make an impression of pre-electoral campaign. Aren’t they pre-electoral PR actions prior to officially defined terms? – RPA is a governing political party and is obliged to discuss with its allies the results of the previous …

The parliament’s standing committee on state and legal issues discussed the government’s bill on “emergency situations”. The Armenian legislation did not have any laws on emergency situations before that. The issue was regulated by the Constitution, according to which “In case of direct danger threatening the Constitutional order the RA president shall, in consultation with …

During the recent days the governmental party has been advertising its initiative in the framework of the pre-election campaign. Armenians who failed to pay land and property taxes from 1996 through 2007 will have their debts completely written off, according to a bill approved by the government. The bill drafted by several parliament deputies from …

On TV they often show reports how people become members of the ruling Republican party and Prosperous Armenia (they either don’t show the ones, who become Legal State members or perhaps there are no such left in Armenia anymore). Normally, the ceremony of becoming RPA members takes place in cultural centers of villages – in …

According to the new electoral code, in proportional lists of political parties every fifth place, not considering the first place, should be a woman. This means that the first woman in the list will be in the sixth place. According to our information, women are struggling for this sixth place in the RPA and the …

The refusal of the theory of multiculturalism, which is no news and has become a European tendency, has been introduced not so long ago by both France’s Sarkozy, Germany’s Merkel and England’s Cameron, when in 2010-2011 they saw a reason to say directly and without any diplomatic formality that the ideology of multiculturalism in fact …

Yesterday the regular session of the ANC was held, during which, according to the press release, the preparation activities of the rally due on March 1 were discussed. According to the same source, inner political developments, election related strategic issues, the formation of proportional party lists were discussed as well. This comes to prove that …