Politics

On September 6 the ex-foreign minister of Armenia, initiator of the Civil Disobedience Movement, and an ANM member Alexander Arzumanyan, who had been arrested May 7 on a charge of money laundering, was unexpectedly set free from the isolation ward of the National Security Service of Armenia. A few days prior to his release the …

The fact that the alleged “criminal case” and legal proceedings instituted against former FM of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan have political reasons has been clear since he was arrested. This established fact was proven yesterday too after Mr. Arzumanyan was set free from the national security office despite the court decision to prolong the term of …

The investigation of the case of the murder of the Prosecutor of Lori marz, Albert Ghazaryan, who was shot on August 25, is developing in a new progress. The murder is being connected with the name of the mayor of Vanadzor Samvel Darbinyan. In particular on September 8 the Prosecutor’s Office of Lori marz has …

According to the predictions of ARP, the upcoming presidential elections will finish after the first round, where the ARP representative will have “a stunning success”. “In case of such separated branches I think that it is real to have a stunning victory just during the first round of elections,” yesterday said the head of the …

Yesterday the head of the ARF faction, Hrayr Karapetyan said the following concerning Arzumanyan’s remission: “Thanks to God! The mistake was corrected.” “Certainly the criminal case is in process. I think that if he has made a crime, he will be punished. However, it wasn’t enough for arresting him. I don’t think he would escape …

As you remember the Dashnaktsutyun being part of the government coalition but meanwhile playing an oppositional role promised during the campaign that once they are elected they are going to raise the issue of the increase of pensions and salaries. “Some illiterate economists used to claim that it’s impossible in the current conditions.” However the …

“No political power can run alone without collaboration with other powers, thus I don’t believe anyone who says that their team is going to run alone, they will make discoveries and many other things. I would like to believe that it could change the quality and create a real electoral situation, but it is impossible. …

While a number of opposition parties are busy with negotiating in cafes on “finding a joint candidate”, some others are nominating themselves, others are trying to predict whether Levon Ter-Petrosyan will return to active politics or not, and some other political powers, which consider themselves opposition are trying to get a status of “pro-Russian” political …

Yesterday the executive managing director of Iranian “Gasexport” public company Nastrola Seifi announced that Iran will start supplying gas to Armenia starting from September 22. He has told “MehrNews” agency that “according to the recent negotiations with Armenia, Armenia is ready to import gas”. The Iranian and Armenian presidents have opened the first part of …

When any of the international organizations organizes social polls in Armenia, firstly they focus on the reputations of politicians and parties. Thus, the politicians are expressed according to those reputations. If the reputation of a politician is high, their party is named “to have high reputation”, and if it is low, they are named to …