Politics

The Armenian presidential candidate Vazgen Manukyan held the first public discussion of his election program with young people and answered all the questions which worry young people. “Our program is based on human freedoms. We believe that only a free person can build a prosperous and dignified state, and the idea of youth has a …

Announced RA presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan on the first day of the official campaign. Yesterday the official presidential campaign went underway. RA presidential candidate started his campaign in Aragatsotn and Shirak marzes. The first stop of will rally took place in Pemzashen village, where over 200 people gathered. Ter-Petrosyan told the villagers that the government …

From 1991 to October, 2007 the Russian investment made up one billion dollars in the real sector of the Armenian economy, which makes up one third of the foreign investment in the Armenian economy, Prime Minister of Armenia and the Co-chair of Armenian-Russian Economic Cooperation Intergovernmental Committee Serzh Sargsyan, told in Yerevan during the Armenian-Russian …

Yesterday the presidential candidate from the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Vahan Hovhannisyan presented his election program at the Armenia Marriott Hotel. Unlike the other two candidates, the hall was more musical. Songs praising the ARF Dashnaktsutyun were sung, and instead of a sitting presentation of the election program the ARF Dashnaktsutyun had chosen a more rally-like option …

A group of Armenian pop stars have announced their support to prime minister Serzh Sargsyan’s presidential bid, saying they will tour around the country this and next month to petition voters to cast their ballots for the prime minister. “It is not an imposed decision. We listened to our hearts. The Republican Party is our …

When answering to the questions of the readers of the http://a1plus.blogsome.com/ online forum the wife of the Legal State chair Artur Baghdasaryan said that they are waiting for the third baby. To the question whether her husband shares with his political life activities Anna Baghdasaryan answered, “In this regard our family is one of those …

The E-channel.am website informs that the leader of the Marxist Party Davit Hakobyan doesn’t consider himself one of the close loyalists of Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Starting from the end of the last year he had tried to meet with Ter-Petrosyan, discuss his platform and offer a few “corrections”. But it all went vain. “The fact that …

On January 18 the Armenian president Robert Kocharyan visited the City Hall of Yerevan for a consultation and held a news briefing answering to several questions concerning the presidential election. With regard to the possibility of a second stage Robert Kocharyan said these rumors are put up by political forces to enable political bargains. According …

After intensive and detailed discussions with interested parties regarding a proposal to conduct exit polling in Armenia during the 2008 presidential elections, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and Baltic Surveys Ltd/Gallup Organization were unable to resolve all of the detailed procedural questions in a way that was fully satisfactory to all sides. Consequently, the U.S. …

Yesterday RA Prime Minister met with the major businessmen of Armenia. “We are going to implement an active economic policy in 2008 and we are going to invest great efforts to improve the business and investment conditions in the country. We have elaborated a quite ambitious program for us and also defined ambiguous measures to …