Politics

The parliament has adopted the government’s program with 88 votes for and three votes against it. The three deputies who voted against the program were from the Heritage party. However, the biggest surprise of that day was not the adoption of the program, but the actions of the new transport and connection minister Gurgen Sargsyan, …

“I think that it will be better if these two politicians meet face to face and debate like Armenian men. If they have not met so far, and neither of them has taken the political responsibility of the events on March 1 resulting in death of ten people, it means that the one who is …

“The authorities should also comply with the April 17 resolution by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) that demanded an independent investigation into the March 1 deadly clashes in Yerevan between riot police and Ter-Petrosyan supporters, release the prisoners, overcoming the gap between the government and society,” said the leader of the Heritage Party, …

During the state of emergency of March 1-20 Swedish MP Kalle Larson applied to the foreign affairs minister of Armenia and asked what Sweden could do and what actions could be done within the framework of the EU to help Armenia in connection with the events that have happened, “criticizing the Armenian government, helping to …

President Serzh Sargsyan, during a discussion with the management of the governmental state taxation department, instructed them to have equal and balanced approach to all companies and enterprises, strongly struggle against corruption and backing others for such purposes. Several days before that meeting the president had such meeting with customs officials. Before that such instructions …

Recently there was an active dialog on the post-election situation in Armenia between the foreign affairs minister of Sweden and Swedish MP Kalle Larson in the Swedish parliament, Riksdag. The latter submitted a letter to FM Carl Bidder during the period of the state of emergency in Armenia and asked him to clarify the stance …

The government has approved the new program during its extraordinary session. Before the session the parliamentary factions discussed the programs and developed recommendations to it. Later the program resumed the recommendations and presented the final program to the factions. Generally, some people in the parliament say that this program is the program developed by Serzh …

Besides their tragic essence the recent events also demonstrated the inability of the whole state apparatus, the broad spread discontent within the society, inclination of political forces to radicalism and most importantly the mass perception that it is impossible to live like this any more. The problem is not even with Levon Ter-Petrosyan or Serzh …

The Armenian people’s movement center held a session on April 25 and made a decision to submit a claim to the European court concerning the violations of the Armenian state bodies during the presidential election February 19. The center has convened a group of Armenian and foreign lawyers in charge of preparing and submitting the …

According to the information of the head of the politicians’ union Hmayak Hovhannisyan, the opposition is going to nominate MP Sasun Mikayelyan, who has been arrested after the events of March 1, during the mayor’s election of Charentsavan city. “With this step the opposition will try to help the situation of prisoners, and again will …