Politics

The “Freedom House” international legal protection organization estimates that Armenia is a partially free country. The same estimation is given to Karabakh too. The above-mentioned organization came up with a report yesterday, which estimates that Georgia and Turkey are partially free countries too. According to this report Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran are not free countries.

The authorities are going to amend the Laws on “State Dues” and “TV and Radio Broadcast”. If these amendments are adopted, “Azatutyun” radio station will either have to terminate its operation or pay 70 thousand drams for each broadcast. In fact, the authorities have changed their strategy. Now they don’t label the media companies they …

Thus the government of Armenia has a program for the coming five years of governance. It may provisionally be called a “spiritual program”, “romantic program”, etc. The selection is pretty big. The thing is that the Prime Minister compared the mentioned program with the spiritual unity of the people and even cited the words of …

Member of the Republican faction, Edward Sharmazanov, announced on Wednesday that he believes that “the ARF is a factual power” regardless of what name might be given to the party’s current status. The Republican deputy also announced that the Republicans “don’t prefer” people who violate the laws and “disrespect the civil society”. During the recent …

The new U.S. Temporary Charge D’ Affaires in Armenia, ambassador Rudolph Perina, is to arrive to Armenia on July 10, reported public relations correspondent of the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, Tom Midnakht, to “Azatutyun” radio. “Rudolph Perina will arrive in Armenia on July 10. He has been the U.S. Ambassador to Moldova, but is coming …

The time in prison previously set for leader of the “Civil Disobedience Movement” and former RA Foreign Minister, Alexander Arzumanyan, may be extended another two months. According to Arzumanyan’s wife, Melissa Brown, the court has already filed arbitration. Brown also mentioned that whereas she used to have the chance to see her husband every 15 …

After intense “discussions”, the newly formed National Assembly endorsed the plan presented by the government with 94 “for”, 7 “against” and 9 “neutral” on Wednesday. The “constructive” oppositional “Heritage” faction voted “against”, while “Legal State” and independent deputy Victor Dallakyan voted “neutral”. The government plan, which was presented by Prime Minister and chairman of the …

“The meaning of the term “political prisoner” is not for just anyone to decide”-Tigran Torosyan, Chairman of the National Assembly It never crossed my mind that I would have the opportunity to make a reference to the words of Tigran Torosyan, much less turn it into the preface of my article, but events in Armenia …

Yesterday Kiro Manoyan, the chief spokesman for Dashnaktsutyun’s worldwide ruling Bureau, literally said the following, “Azerbaijan had better understand that the negotiations cannot continue for very long. We are not afraid of their threats either. We are not that crazy to wait for Azerbaijan to start a war. When we see that’s the solution, we’ll …

Kiro Manoyan, the chief spokesman for Dashnaktsutyun’s worldwide ruling Bureau, thinks resettlement of the liberated territories is primary. It is interesting, however, the resettlement of which territories the ARF representative means…all the territories, or, maybe some territories cannot be resettled because they will be returned to Azerbaijan. “There is no territory that should not be …