Politics

According to our information, republican Gagik Melikyan, who resigned from Precinct 41 to leave his spot for Hakob Hakobyan (who had recently joined ARP after dropping his membership in “Legal State”), is trying to get a position in the parliament. Our sources inform that Melikyan wants to get the position of head of NA personnel, …

Yesterday the parliament adopted the bills aimed at terminating the operation of “Liberty” radio station in the territory of Armenia during the first reading with 79 votes for, 16 votes against and 1 abstention. These bills will be discussed one more time during these 24 hours, and there is no doubt that the MPs that …

Yesterday FM Vardan Oskanyan said that the Karabakh conflict negotiations had come to a point, “where Azerbaijan avoids making the next step”. He also says that it is not excluded that the OSCE MG co-chairs will meet separately with the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, after which they will decide whether there will be an …

Yesterday ARP faction head Galust Sahakyan said in “Pastark” club that the next president of Armenia would be the ARP candidate. He didn’t say the name of the mentioned candidate, but said that there was no need for that, making it clear that he meant Serge Sargsyan. He assures that ARP is going to do …

“The Armenian side has agreed to settling the conflict through phases and take their armed forces out of the seven regions surrounding Karabakh,” announced Azeri president Ilham Aliev in the Ramani village community of Azerbaijan on May 4. The Armenian side has not yet refuted this announcement. Furthermore, following the mentioned announcement, foreign affairs ministry …

Yesterday’s press conference in Baku, organized for the Azerbaijani intelligentsia by the initiative of the Azerbaijani Ambassador, Polad Byulbyuloghli, started with a certain incident. The Azeri Press informed that during Byulbyuloghli’s speech, one of the members of the “Karabakh Liberation Organization” (KLO) said indecent words about one of the members of the delegation, as a …

Republican Member of Parliament, Galust Sahakyan, commented on the amendments to the law on television and radio and the law on the state levy in a news conference yesterday at Pastark Club. According to him, these amendments are made for the broadcaster and are not against Radio Liberty and all this noise comes somewhere from …

The chairman of the National Assembly of NKR, Ashot Ghulyan, had this to say with regards to the announcement made recently by EU Secretary General Terri Davis, according to which the International Community will not recognize the results of the NKR presidential elections: “I think that Mr. Davis’s high position must obligate him to refrain …

“I want to explain why I am convinced that these are politically aimed programs and are sent from 26 Baghramyan street – the presidential residency – and will do that by asking a question: why should these bills be discussed in an extraordinary session?” asked Yerevan Press Club expert, Mesrop Harutyunyan, during a press conference …

The “Freedom” radio station faces the danger of shut-down from time to time, with the accusation of shattering the security of Armenia, getting funding from the West, and implementing subversive activities in the country. The accusation is unclear, and is put in circulation from time to time by the rules of conspiracy and secrecy. When …