Politics

The Resolution on the “Situation of the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan” was approved yesterday, during the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly. There were 39 members voting for and 7 members voting against the document; 100 representatives abstained from voting. The initiative of Baku did not receive support by any EU member state; all …

Yesterday the Heritage party applied to the Administrative Court and demanded to cancel the March 1 decree of President Robert Kocharyan regarding the emergency state. According to the Heritage among all the other restrictions, the prevention of democratic activities, such as the media operation contradicts the RA legislation as well as the requirements of the …

By considering the internal political situation of Armenia the Janes research center forecast that “at any rate now it will be more difficult for the west to regulate the NKR conflict and especially signing of any document on the part of Yerevan as the internal stability of the country is very important and has become …

“There are real problems in Armenia today. The society is divided. There is polarization. I really think that there is a need for a professional, independent and impartial inquiry into what happened,” the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights Thomas Hammaberg told the RFE/RL. Hammarberg stopped short of describing any of the detainees as …

After the color revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan many politicians, local and international analysts and political scientists forecast that the next color revolution in the post-soviet territory is going to take place in Armenia. These predictions were made based on the foreign factor. Regardless of how the opposition insists that it can change the …

The presidential elections of February 19 2008 and the events, which succeeded it, will for a long time be a subject for discussion in the society. By considering the curfew and the restrictions, which the mass media means must follow (even after the moderation) we decided to refrain ourselves from comments and publication of inaccurate …

Yesterday at 12:00-1:00 p.m. NA MP Hakob Hakobyan’s apartment was being searched. Hakobyan told the Liberty that the police had found and confiscated 4 units of weapon, which he claims were licensed. “The search was very offensive for me. I have been at war for so many years, got wounded. The main reason was that …

Yesterday, for the last time in the status of a President Robert Kocharyan met with the active students of Yerevan State University, where he introduced his standpoints regarding many issues of concern. By answering one of the questions of students he said that he was leaving the president’s post with free conscience because a lot …

To the question of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper on how the FM of NKR Georgy Petrosyan envisions the future of Armenia (as an independent union or within Armenia), the latter said, “Both as a minister and a citizen my answer is freedom.” Petrosyan also said that there is nothing unusual in the existence of two …

Yesterday the Kentron and Nork Marash community court of Yerevan sentenced the chairman of the 9/31 polling station Edward Aghajanyan to a two-year imprisonment because of rigging the results of the polls. Aghajanyan accepted the brought up accusations.