Politics

After a long while the theme of the gas price increase has become a top one. Recently the newly appointed Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan announced that the subsidization of the gas price will be ceased from May 1 and the consumers will have to pay more. This is no news and even three …

Today at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) the draft resolution on the activity of the democratic institutions in Armenia will be put to vote. The resolution offers the Armenian government to take concrete steps to overcome the political crisis in the country. The unwillingness of conducting improvements may suspend voting rights of Armenia …

Yesterday President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on appointing new defense and foreign affair ministers. As it was expected the head of the General Staff of the Armed Force, Seiran Ohanyan was released from that position and appointed as minister of defense. Sargsyan appointed Edward Nalbandyan minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Armenia. …

Yesterday a group of women supporting jailed oppositionists picketed the Council of Europe’s Yerevan office as the Strasbourg-based organization’s Parliamentary Assembly was to start its spring session with the discussion on Armenia featuring on its agenda. They demanded from the European structures to pressure on the RA government to release the political detainees and establish …

Yesterday the first session of the PACE spring session was launched. During the session the delegates started the discussion of the monitoring mission report on the presidential election of RA. Specifically, Hungarian parliamentarian Zlolt Nemeth thinks the Council of Europe should urge Armenia’s authorities to launch an independent investigation. “If they don’t do that, then …

Despite the fact that the newly elected President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan is considered the heir of Robert Kocharyan it doesn’t guarantee the security of Kocharyan. The director of the Russian Strategic Research Institute Alexander Skakov expressed such an opinion in the Russian RBK Daily. “The level of their friendship cannot be underestimated. Kocharyan’s team …

“If you ask what I am going to do, I will reply – I will form certain public opinion so that not to recognize this power. We shall use all possible legal means for that", Levon Ter-Petrosyan said in an interview with Russian newspaper "Novye Izvestia regarding the further steps of the opposition. He also …

After the presidential election of February 19 and the adoption of the famous resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly various RA statesmen have started to make mildly said rough statements on the regulation of the NKR conflict and about the activities of the OCSE Minsk Group co-chairmen. They started to especially complain about the …

Last week a series of media sources in Armenia spread unofficial information that the former President Robert Kocharyan is going to be appointed deputy-director of the Gazprom and is going to supervise the southern activity of the company. This information has not been confirmed or denied yet, however the Russian RBK Daily publicized noteworthy information. …

While in Armenia almost all the political-public circles are speaking about the necessity of starting a dialog between the opposition and the government (to note that these conversations haven’t given any results yet) one of the Russian newspapers Novie Izvestiya has launched such a “dialog”. Last week this newspaper printed an interview with the four …