Politics

RA president Robert Kocharyan has signed an order to dismiss deputy defense minister Manvel Grigoryan from his position. The president’s media service department’s statement does not specify the reasons of the mentioned decision, but it is clear that he has been fired for supporting Ter-Petrosyan’s movement. It is worth mentioning that till March 1 Manvel …

Euro Union and OSCE/ODIHR after a joint expertise have concluded that the recent amendments to the Armenian law on independence of demonstrations are very concerning. The speaker of the Armenian parliament has asked the ODIHR experts’ group and Venice commission to discuss the amendments to the law on demonstrations and rallies adopted on March 17. …

Miami Herald newspaper, an American newspaper, has written that the appointment of the new US Ambassador in Armenia Mari Yovanovich may become the tensest issue for the American Armenians during this year. “The fact that the bill on the Armenian Genocide was failed in the House of Representatives means that the appointment of Yovanovich may …

One of the main issues to be discussed at the NATO summit in Bucharest concerns granting a membership action plan to Ukraine and Georgia to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The US president George Bush has petitioned the NATO to start the process of granting membership to these two countries. A number of the …

Yesterday the staff of the Swan Lake cafe, which belongs to the family of ANM board president Ararat Zurabyan, were called to the police for testimony. Zurabyan’s lawyer Tigran Ter-Esayan has told radio Liberty that the director, accountant and an employee of the cafe had been called by the police to give testimony.

The rumors saying that the US is supporting the Armenian first president Ter-Petrosyan are not true because it is not in the interests of the United States to support him. And the reason is his stance concerning the Karabakh conflict. Such idea was said by former deputy foreign affairs minister of Karabakh and former candidate …

Several weeks ago our newspaper wrote about Artavazd Tadevosyan’s family as a needy family. They are from Garni village community. Yesterday we visited this family with a citizen to help them with their needs, they showed us one of their 7 children named Ilona (10 years old) and said, “Do you know who she is?” …

– What solutions do you envision to overcome the crisis created after March 1 as a political scientist, who was actively participating in all the events of the radical opposition? – The government should realize that it has a need of a dialog and understanding not only with the radical opposition but the whole society …

What shall the RA government and opposition have a dialog on, which the representatives of the government and the international community have been claiming all the time? Or where is the opposition, which the government would communicate with? Who shall they negotiate with if the most part of the oppositionists are in prison now? Yesterday …

On March 14 the General Assembly of the UN adopted the resolution on the situation of the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, which specifically says, “In the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and the conflict created in this regard endangers the international security and peace. Through this resolution the UN General Assembly once again recognizes the territorial …