Politics

According to our information, the pre-election PR campaign of former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan (including his political steps done so far) is mainly carried out by three Dutchmen, two of which are in Armenia now. Certainly, some local experts and political scientists have been involved in that job too.

RA ex FM Alexander Arzumanyan has informed radio Liberty that RA first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan will participate in the upcoming presidential elections through self-nomination. The potential candidates for presidency can submit the corresponding documents to the Central Electoral Commission till December 6. No candidate has submitted any documents so far.

Yesterday the president’s adviser on national security issues, Garnik Isagulyan said that very soon he was going to inform to the public details concerning the “dark and cold pages” of former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s life and biography. “People should know about all those things,” said Isagulyan yesterday. Answering to a note that the society knows …

The head of the political research institution at the president’s office, RA president’s adviser on national security issues Garnik Isagulyan is periodically conducting research of public opinion on different issues and reports to the president about the findings. In other words, as Isagulyan says, the president knows even about the society’s opinion on the issues …

According to the first one everything is fine, guys. It should have been like this because we are living an objective period of our history. Our independence is only 15 years old, isn’t it? We don’t get surprised about the virtues dominant in the 18th century in Europe. So imagine that with our development rates …

According to the time schedule of preparation for the RA presidential elections, yesterday it was the deadline to decide the prices offered by TV companies to candidates in the pre-election campaign period, thus the “independent, but responsible” TV companies have published the price for one minute of pre-election campaign on the air of their companies. …

“I assure that we have decided to settle the conflict of Nagorno Karabakh as soon and fast as possible, but not by all means. I would like to highlight this. Not by all means,” said RA FM Vardan Oskanyan in his interview given to H1 TV. According to him, the conflict of Karabakh can be …

During the recent rally of the opposition former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan suggested to print the election ballots in abroad and said that otherwise there would be violations. Yesterday CEC head Garegin Azaryan said concerning the mentioned suggestion, “We have numerously seen the skills of Levon Ter-Petrosyan to organize free, fair and transparent elections, specifically we …

“As ARF has been against the policy advocated by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, as ARF advocated another policy that drastically differed from the one advocated by Ter-Petrosyan in 1998 and 2003, as Levon Ter-Petrosyan is running, in fact, within the limits of the same policy, ARF cannot support his candidacy either for one year or one week,” …

Businessman Hrant Vardanyan has announced that he will back PM Serzh Sargsyan during the upcoming presidential elections. Mr. Vardanyan explained his decision by the “hard working skills” the prime minister has. He also has approved the rumors that the taxation services are inspecting “Grand Tobacco”, “Grand Candy” and “another commercial enterprise” owned by their family. …