Politics

According to one of the latest resolutions passed by the government, 180 million drams have been allotted to Writers’ Union of Armenia (WUA) for the renovation of the building. The building, located on 3 Baghramyan street, is on the list of historical monuments. According to president of WUA, Levon Ananyan, the money will first and …

Hovik Arsenyan, who is the attorney of former RA Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Arzumanyan [arrested two months ago for “money-laundering”], told “Liberty” radio that he “knows for sure” that Sashik Aghazaryan was interrogated in Moscow and affirmed his announcement in the press, according to which he had sent money to his friend Alexander Arzumanyan on …

During yesterday’s press conference, NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan said that the bills that were virtually directed against Radio Liberty would not be submitted to the National Assembly for discussion by the government. He meant the bills “On Television and Radio” and “State Duties, which the government considered urgent for discussion, and for that reason the …

Perhaps for the first time, Robert Kocharyan pronounced the name of his preferred successor in his interview given to “SPIEGEL” online. “I support Serge Sargsyan. I have worked with him for a long time and the fact that the army is the state structure that enjoys the highest confidence is, first and foremost, his accomplishment,” …

Representative of “Impeachment” bloc Nikol Pashinyan announced during the rally they organized on July 3 in “Freedom” square that they had reached agreement on running with one candidate during the presidential election of 2008 not only with APP and “Republic” parties, but also “National Unity” party. Pashinyan also said that they reached such agreement with …

A few days ago, tourism in Armenia drastically increased. About 250 young people from 25 foreign countries have arrived in Yerevan to participate in the pan-Armenian international conference. The organizer was the chair of the International Armenian Congress (more correctly the Armenian union in Russia), Ara Abrahamyan. The man has done a good thing to …

Ruzan Khachatryan, public relations correspondent of the People’s Party of Armenia, told our correspondent that party member Stepan Zakaryan still hasn’t filed to leave the party and has not visited the party office after the publication of his announcement in the presses. Our “168 Hours” correspondent tried to find out whether or not Zakaryan was …

“The reason for the failure in the talks on the Karabakh conflict is that Azerbaijan doesn’t take into account the present-day realities,” said Robert Kocharyan during an interview with the German “Spiegel Online” online newspaper. According to Kocharyan, the Azeri side doesn’t realize that “it is impossible to turn back the wheel of time”. “The …

On Wednesday, Minster of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Vardan Oskanyan, met with OSCE Minsk Group Russian and French co-presidents Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernar Fassie in Paris. This was the first meeting of the minister and the co-presidents since the June 9 meeting of the Armenian and Azeri presidents, Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliev, in St. …

In the previous article I promised to present the methods and strategy of the fight for freedom of mass media, but before getting into that, I can’t not refer to the screams let out by the male and female friends of an ancient political party which, I am sure you can see, refer only to …