Politics

The volume of Russian-Armenian trade soared to about $700 million in 2007 and may well pass the $1 billion mark this year. Yesterday during the meeting with journalists said the Prime Minister of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the Russian Prime Minister Victor Zubkov. The delegation headed by Russia’s Prime Minister Victor Zubkov arrived in Armenia …

According to well informed sources on Monday late evening the meeting of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and the Legal State chairman Artur Baghdasaryan took place at the governmental summer house. The meeting was initiated by Baghdasaryan. He had asked one of the businessmen to convince Sargsyan to receive him. Baghdasaryan entered the summer house not …

Yesterday presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan visited Ararat region being escorted by a long line of cars. During this visit there was an incident in Artashat, which Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters say was a murder attempt. As for the candidate, he says “it is a terror against a presidential candidate”. Before visiting Artashat the presidential candidate had …

During the press conference yesterday the Founder and the Executive Director of the company Andrew Cooper mentioned that in answer to the questions which presidential candidate would best solve the issue of unemployment, RA economic development, NKR conflict, Genocide recognition, infrastructure development, withstand the threat of war, social security and fight against corruption most of …

Governor of Ararat region Alik Sargsyan: “The reason of the conflict during Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election meeting in Artashat was the fact that they were insulting the others”. – Mr. Sargsyan, can you tell us why such incident took place just in your region? – I don’t know, but I didn’t see any reasons that would cause …

Different candidates are running for presidency and they have different merits and opportunities, however citizens are interested mainly in two candidates. The first candidate is the prime minister, who differs not with the fact that he has administrative strong tools, but the fact that he is supported by the NA majority and is the only …

– Mr. Ambassador, I know that you have great work experience in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans. In fall of 2004, you headed the OSCE Observation Mission during the elections in Ukraine. Would you, please, tell us whether you see any trends, related to elections, which are characteristic of the states of the former …

The board of “Heritage” party, according to the leader of the party Raffi Hovhannisyan, will make final decision concerning its participation in the pre-election political processes at the end of this week. They are still discussing the format of their participation. “We are glad that everyone is saying his word, but I think that no …

On Saturday during a rally in the Freedom square of Yerevan presidential candidate Arthur Baghdasaryan announced that he had received a call threatening to kill him. However, A. Baghdasaryan did not inform any details concerning who called him and how, but he said that if anything happened to him the authorities would be the ones …

Azeri politician Rustam Mamedov has said to “Novosti-Azerbaijan” newspaper that if Levon Ter-Petrosyan is elected president the conflict of Karabakh will be settled in benefit of Azerbaijan. “Levon Ter-Petrosyan has great opportunities to win as the Armenian people are tired of the incumbent government. Ter-Petrosyan is very famous and meanwhile new person for the Armenians,” …