Politics

“Heritage Foundation” has given leading positions to Armenia in its report on economic freedoms in the countries of the world. Such positive estimation has been given to the Armenian government by “Foreign Policy” magazine in 2007. The mentioned organization published indexes of failures on the part of different countries, where Armenia occupied the 112th place …

– Could you tell us about the incident that took place with you and LS pre-election headquarter chairwoman Heghine Bisharyan at National Press Club recently? – There was no incident, just the LS representative tried to do the same as their party has been doing and tried to give incorrect information and I just had …

– Can we insist that our education system is in crisis? – Definitely yes. Education is the most expensive element of the economy development of the country. And when we speak about that element in the aspect of the institutional union with other elements we don’t have the right not to consider the reconciliation and …

ARP spokesman Edward Shramazanov has informed our correspondent that ARP has formed 1300 pre-election headquarters, 300 out of which are in Yerevan. NDU has only four pre-election headquarters so far, three out of which are in Yerevan and the other one – in Gyumri. NDU is going to form 41 pre-election headquarters. Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters …

On Saturday “serjsargsyan.am” web page published the pre-election program of presidential candidate Serj Sargsyan, which consists of 8 pages. “Armenia, which we want to live in, must become strong democratic country with effective management system, in which the highest value is the human being, and the dominating value – his/her integral rights,” Serj Sargsyan promises …

Yesterday the secretary of the Heritage party Stepan Safaryan stated that the majority of the party management thinks that they should endorse an opposition candidate during the upcoming presidential candidate. “We must endorse the opposition candidate, who has the best opportunity to win the race and we think that the candidate is Levon Ter-Petrosyan.” Safaryan …

Our correspondent has asked the ARF spokesman, Spartak Seyranyan, where they found the money to pay for printing the agreements between the ARF presidential candidates and citizens (400.000 copies) as the law prohibits using the resources of candidates’ pre-election funds in this period. “That money wasn’t taken from the pre-election funds. This money has been …

There is no active working environment in the central headquarters of presidential candidate NDU chairman Vazgen Manukyan, which is located at the NDU office. The reason is that perhaps the official campaign hasn’t started yet. According to Manukyan’s head of campaign, chairman of the National State Party Samvel Shahinyan their representatives are currently working by …

“The official campaign starts one day after the set date of the registration of parties and candidates and ends one day before the election.” This is a quotation from the RA Electoral Code, which the 9 presidential candidates must follow when organizing their campaigns. Despite the fact that the presidential campaign is going to start …

The OCSE ODIHR intends to send 24 long-term and 250 short-term monitors to Armenia. According to the press secretary of the OSCE/ODIHR Urdur Gunardodiri the long-term monitors will be sent to Armenia at the beginning of January to follow the registration process of the candidates, media reliability, the process of appellation. The short-term monitors will …