Politics

The presidential pre-election official campaign commenced yesterday. Candidates will have an opportunity to use free and paid air time on the national TV channel starting from tomorrow. Ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s campaign manager Alexander Arzumanyan has told our correspondent that this delay in providing air time on the national TV channel “is conditioned by certain technical …

Tigran Arsenashvili, a correspondent of “Regnum” agency writes the following concerning Armenia in his article entitled as “Southern Caucasus expects “consciousness” from Russia”: “The existing political situation in Armenia significantly differs from that before the elections of 2003. Former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan followed his curators’ advices and decided to nominate his candidacy for presidency and …

“I don’t believe that our people are scared. It can’t happen that people, who were not scared of Gorbachev’s tanks, were not afraid of the Azeri robbers, may be afraid of two poor and illiterate officials,” announced presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan in Ashtarak. The local government bodies tried to create some obstacles in order to …

Yesterday intelligentsia representatives held a discussion at “Mirror” club, where they expressed hope that an environment would be created in the country to organize civilized debates enabling the society make a conscious choice during the elections. The head of the eastern sciences department of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Ruben Safaryan said that he …

Lawyer Michael Danielyan has given exclusive interview to “Echo” and answering to a question whether anything extraordinary can be expected from the results of the upcoming elections and whether former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan has good opportunities to be elected he said: “I think that there will not be anything extraordinary. The existing authorities are not …

“How are you going to fight against monopoly on sugar or other businesses?” Yesterday the chair of Legal State Party, Arthur Baghdasaryan answered to this question and said, “If I am elected, there will be a different situation; people will feel that they live in a different country. Nothing will happen to the monopolists who …

Ex-president of Belarus (1991-94) Stanislav Shushkevich and ex-PM of Bulgaria (1991-92) Philip Dimitorv have sent a letter to the first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. The letter writes the following: “We are sincerely happy and are supporting professor Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s new involvement in the political field of his great country – Armenia. Ter-Petrosyan had led …

On February 5-6 the delegation of the Prime Minister of Russia Victor Zubkov will pay an official visit to Armenia. The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Nikolay Pavlov said that the visit of the Russian Premier made by the invitation of the Armenian Prime Monster Serzh Sargsyan. The members of the delegation …

Yesterday when presenting the platform of the Legal State chairman Artur Baghdasaryan the author of the “Artur Baghdasaryan: Portrait of the Reality” Levon Mutafyan emphasized the privilege of Baghdasaryan compared to other candidates, according to which the form of Baghdasaryan’s political biography is nationalistic but the contents is European.

To the question of one of the journalists why the Armenian-Russian forum took place on these days the president of the Armenians Union in Russia Ara Abrahamyan responded, “We are speaking of productivity. Therefore we should have started in the beginning of the year. Today is the right time for us to start the work.” …