Politics

Zhirair Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan, who are currently found in the isolation cell of the National Security Service, dispersed an announcement Monday: “We announce once again that our arrest was politically instigated, and we propose to the representatives of the political parties and NGOs to organize a public tribunal parallel to this trial and include …

There were some disagreements between leader of the Armenian Liberal Progressive Party, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, and the political party council secretary, Edward Antinyan, after the May 12 National Assembly elections. Hovhannisyan closed the party office and announced that he was going to open a new office in a different location. In the meantime, Edward Antinyan had …

Yesterday in Kiev, during its 16th session, the OSCE PA expressed the intention to show support for the resolution of frozen conflicts. The document of the OSCE expresses deep concerns about the frozen conflicts of the OSCE regions, especially about the on-going conflicts in the territories of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova. It is also concerned …

On Saturday, a shooting at the Silikyan District (Third Village) cemetery was reported to the Police. The police found the bodies of Artavazd Vardanyan and Vardan Melikyan, who was accompanying Vardanyan, at the grave of Vardanyan’s father, Ashot Vardanyan. The policemen found out that Grigor Stepanyan was taken to Malatia Hospital with wounds from the …

About two months ago the foreign minister of Armenia, Vardan Oskanyan, and the deputy-minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan, Araz Azimov, announced that the sides are “closer than ever to the resolution of the Karbakh conflict.” No one perhaps related seriously to those announcements. However, a few days ago, a similar and even more optimistic …

During a press conference Thursday in Tbilisi, PACE chairman Rene van der Linden touched upon the two failed bills of the National Assembly of Armenia, the enforcement of which could have led to the shut-down of the “Liberty” radio station broadcast. The PACE chairman told the Georgian “Liberty” radio correspondent, Nino Gelashvili, that any type …

The Armenian National Movement envisions a pivotal role in the joining of the opposition in the upcoming presidential elections, and at the moment sees first president of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan as the only opposition candidate. That is what Aram Manukyan, member of the ANM administration, announced Friday at the “Pastark” club. “The …

Independent deputy Viktor Dallakyan has reaffirmed his view that the purpose of the law on amending the “Law on TV and radio” was closing radio “Liberty”. Dallakyan explained his view with the fact that they could not include the mentioned issue in the agenda of the special session of the parliament, as it didn’t have …

At least, the noise connected with radio “Liberty” had a “happy end”. The “last bastion of free speech” in Armenia was not closed (even though it is clear that the decision is not final). Whether the reason was the sloppy work of the authorities or the position of the U.S. Secretary of State is not …

“Perhaps it was important for Karabakh to have the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Moscow come and give a press conference under the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh, meet with the existing president of Karabakh, and with that somehow show that Azerbaijan accepts the existence of the legitimate power in Nagorno-Karabakh. That was not support for the existing president …