Politics

Post-Soviet elections have become elaborately choreographed occasions. The script is now getting so precise that we even know what the preferred winning share of the vote is for an official candidate in the South Caucasus: 53 percent. Twice already this year, 53 percent has been the decisive number in the presidential elections in the post-Soviet …

The Ago monitoring group of the Euro Union Ministers’ committee, which visited Armenia on March 29, has proposed a draft of suggestions consisting of six points to the authorities and opposition powers of Armenia for the purpose of overcoming the ongoing situation in Armenia through political means. Yesterday the chairman of the Ago group Per …

Yesterday the head of the Heritage faction Stepan Safaryan announced that their party had some problems with figuring out with its “strategy and policy”. In answer to a question whether that action may result in dropping their mandates the latter said, “I don’t want to exclude anything. We have announced that we are a pro …

“It is unacceptable for a CoE member state to have political prisoners,” reiterated the head of the Ago monitoring group Per Sjogren during yesterday’s press-conference with Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan. The Group, which is headed by the latter, is named as AGO Group. Sjogren mentioned in Yerevan that the AGO Group hasn’t ever visited …

– Mr. Sahakyants, the people’s protests after the presidential elections, the events of March 1, which followed after those made different people and even the ones, who support the government, think that not everything is alright in our country. However, if I am not mistaken, you are one of the few people, who don’t draw …

Zeyno Baran joined Hudson Institute as Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson’s Center for Eurasian Policy in April 2006. From January 2003 until joining Hudson, Baran directed the International Security and Energy Programs at the Nixon Center. From 1999 until December 2002, Baran worked as Director of the Caucasus Project at the Center for Strategic …

Yesterday during his interview to the Radio Liberty the Armenian FM Vardan Oskanyan told that the events of March 1 have significantly harmed the reputation of Armenia. “No doubt that as a result of the events of March 1 the image of Armenia has drastically suffered. We need clear steps to change the situation on …

On Thursday Anahit Bakhshyan, Deputy from “Heritage” parliamentary faction, was invited to the RA Special Investigative Service for a questioning as a witness. Let us remember that Bakhshyan had sent an open letter to chief prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan with an attached CD, which she said, grounded rumors that the car ran over several demonstrators near …

“There is no clear decision about freezing of the US Millennium Challenge Compact. The Official Washington hasn’t made such a decision yet,” said the US Charge d’Affaires Joseph Pennington and added that it would be fair to give the Armenian government an opportunity to fix the situation. “If we notice that the government is not …

Last evening a local staffer of the OSCE office Armenia was taken to the police from the Northern Avenue. Yesterday the press officer of the OSCE Armenia told the Liberty reporter that their staffer was moved to the Shengavit department of police from the Northern Avenue.