Politics

Yesterday the delegation spearheaded by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Armenia. At President Kocharyan’s Office the Iranian delegation held a meeting with the Armenian delegation, during which they signed a number of agreements regarding banking system, energy sector cooperation, documents about building HES at the bank of Arax River as well as a memorandum …

Yesterday the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) session officially stated that the customs price of 1 kilo of butter imported by NA MP Samvel Alexanyan’s “Salex Group” CJSC, is 582 AMD. The company hasn’t imported any butter since then. The price of the butter in the markets was 1700 AMD per …

The co-chair of the joint Armenian-Russian parliamentary commission Nicolay Rijkov paying official visit to Armenia on these days held a news conference and spelled out his opinion on the presidential election and the likely nomination of the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan. “Yes, I have known him but we were not too close. My …

As the Armenian presidential election is drawing nearer, the mill is becoming one of the core factors in the political life at home. According to Lragir.am recently the SIL Concern of Khachatur Sukiasyan was audited by the case of the mill of Yerevan. The point is that Member of Parliament Khachatur Sukiasyan, who bought the …

The Armenian delegation headed by the Prime Minister of RA Serzh Sargsyan left Washington for Los Angeles to meet with the editorial board of Los Angeles Times. Yesterday Sargsyan met the management of Lincy Foundation. The Armenian prime minister Serzh Sargsyan met with U.S. secretary of defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon, Vice President of …

As an example of the fact of denying the Armenian Genocide we often bring up the precedent of the Jewish Genocide in Holocaust, when Germans slaughtered the Jews during the World War II. However, as reminds doctor of history Benjamin Poghosyan, such analogies are not quite relevant because the Fascist Germany recognized Holocaust because it …

– Most of the opposition powers say that your suggestion to organize discussions not only with the opposition powers, but also with the governmental powers in order to be able to overcome the existing problems of the state was “romanticism”. However, ANM chair Ararat Zurabyan does not exclude that in the future Levon Ter-Petrosyan may …

Yesterday the chair of the Legal State Party, Artur Baghdasaryan met the president of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan. According to the Legal State Party they have discussed issues relating to Armenian-Russian relations, strengthening ties with Armenia-Diaspora as well as public and political processes.

On October 17 Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan left for the United States of America. The government information and public relations department informs that the finance and economy minister, minister of trade and economic development, agriculture minister, chief adviser to the president of the republic on economic issues, Central Bank chairman and deputy foreign minister are …

After the US House of Foreign Affairs adopted the Resolution 106 on the Armenian Genocide information has been circulated that the Turkish government has arrested 100 Armenian citizens, who have violated the visa regime of Turkey. The Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey has already announced that Turkey is going to apply sanctions against …