Politics

The spokesman of the Constitutional Court has informed the Panorama news agency that presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan has not applied to the Constitutional Court. “Definitely during the rally someone rushed to say that they had applied instead of saying that they would apply. We haven’t received any applications or complaints from Ter-Petrosyan yet,” he said. …

Recently PM Serzh Sargsyan organized a rally in the Republic square and during that rally petitioned the other candidates to cooperate with the government and even to make a coalition with them. Yesterday Serzh Sargsyan said in the parliament, “Some opposition powers have already answered to my petition to cooperate with us”. However, he didn’t …

Former deputy general prosecutor Gagik Jhangiryan and his brother Vardan Jhangiryan, who were arrested on February 23, have been taken to prison. Gagik Jhangiryan is charged under Article 235/1 (obtaining, selling, keeping, transporting or bearing illegal weapons, guns, explosive materials or explosive equipments) and Article 316/1 (power pressure on a governmental representative) of the RA …

Yesterday was the seventh day of the demonstrations organized by Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters. As usual, yesterday morning they cleaned the square and filled the special plastic bags with the garbage. The political part of the demonstration started after 3 p.m. (before that time they were just living there, watching films and listening to …

“The post-election crisis now gripping Armenia centers on the process more than the result of the election. The on-going crisis is not simply a political crisis, but is more a reflection of several underlying fundamental problems, including corruption, socio-economic injustice and "good governance gone bad". Although Armenian politics is dominated by personalities over platforms or …

“At present certain people express words in order excite the crowd and lead them. This may create an aggressive crowd and lose control over things,” stated political scientist Alexander Manasyan during yesterday’s press conference by adding that all the technologies that are used now lead to such a situation. According to Manasyan the fact that …

Yesterday during the government-parliament Q/A session when PM Serzh Sargsyan entered the parliamentary sitting hall the members of RPA, PA and ARF parties stood up and applauded the prime-minister, even the speaker Tigran Torosyan gave a bunch of flowers to the prime-minister. The latter passed the flower given by Tigran Torosyan to his party member …

A few weeks ago a distance debate started between Armen Harutiunyan, the defender of human rights of Armenia and Alexan Harutiunyan, the president of the board of the public television and radio regarding the coverage of the presidential election on the Public Television. Harutiunyan stated a few weeks ago that the Public Television does not …

The Central Electoral Commission publicized the final results of the February 19 presidential elections on Sunday, February 24 despite the fact that the deadline of the publication was February 26. So why did the CEC show such a rush if it had two more days left? This question is being asked quite often these days. …

As of yesterday the fifth day of the non-stop rally of the first president and his supporters continues in the Liberty Square. The protestors demand that the government should cancel the results of February 19 elections of Armenia. Every day new statesmen join Ter-Petrosyan’s movement. Yesterday the heads of three departments of the RA Trade …