Politics

Yesterday four Armenian diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who were fired after publicly describing last month’s presidential election as fraudulent filed a lawsuit against the Foreign Ministry on saying that their sacking was illegal and must be overturned. Vladimir Karapetyan, Martha Ayvazyan, Karine Afrikyan, and Arakel Semirjyan filed a suit in the Administrative …

Even 4-5 days after the state of emergency was cancelled in Yerevan the Liberty Square still remains surrounded by the police. Police keeps detaining people to the police stations. Yesterday at about 6 p.m. certain people were detained because of the “political walk” in the vicinity of the Liberty Square. One of them, a young …

“The NKR has all the conditions to have its independence recognized,” yesterday on the 20th anniversary of the NKR movement said the ARFD Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office Director Kiro Manoyan prior to the conference of the ARF youth conference. In his words, it is quite clear that Armenia must be the first …

Yesterday the RA Prime Minister, president-elect Serzh Sargsyan, who had paid a one-day working visit to Russia, held various meetings in Moscow, after which he returned to Armenia late in the evening. Sargsyan held his first meeting with the Russian newly-elect President Dmitri Medvedev, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and President Vladimir Putin and other high-rank …

The topic of the recent events and the post-election situation has been discussed much. However, if we look at the official statistics information, it seems that everything is not so bad. According to the official information of the national statistics service, the economic growth of the January-February months of 2008 made 10.1%. It seems that …

“I am a child of the Armenian Genocide victims, but have never thought that the Turks are my enemies. You can’t have a victim only by killing or hurting. We should look for the reasons in ourselves. We were not united, we did not have a state…” said former prime-minister Andranik Margaryan during a discussion …

The Russian first vice PM Sergey Ivanov has said during Putin’s meeting with the members of the parliament that Russia will increase the capacity of ordinary military armaments production by 2,2 times till 2015. He said that during a consecutive military production commission session they would discuss the strategy of developing the armaments production plants. …

“I don’t think there may be any honest person in Armenia, who can go against and not to endorse us. It is a pity that there are a lot of scoundrels but believe me that the bigger our movement is becoming the less scoundrels there are”.This is a part from Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s speech on February …

According to former presidential candidate Arman Melikyan, the existing situation in the country is very frustrating. “Any pressure, which does not leave a space for a counter action, is followed by illegal activities. This situation will create terror in our country. I want to speak about this danger today. If there is no political dialogue, …

Yesterday Arakel Semerjyan was called out of a café not far from the opera house and taken to the police station. The latter is one of the diplomats from the foreign affairs ministry who have announced about their decision to endorse Ter-Petrosyan. By the way, Mr. Semerjyan is Ter-Petrosyan’s cousin. The chairman of the Republic …