Politics

Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan yesterday implicitly blamed Azerbaijan for the failure of this month’s Armenian-Azerbaijani summit on Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that Baku seems to be backtracking on some of the understandings reached earlier by the conflicting parties. “Azerbaijan is showing clear signs of a change of position, a tendency to renege on some agreements. The first …

“The US President’s candidate for US Ambassador to Armenia is Richard Hoagland,” US Charge d’Affaires Anthony Godfrey stated yesterday. In the meantime, the ANCA continues to oppose this appointment. The Armenian Cause office wants Armenia to have a US Ambassador, however it doesn’t wish to see someone who doesn’t accept the Armenian Genocide as reality. …

“A joint oppositional presidential candidate will bring a new note to the political field of Armenia,” stated the deputy-chairman of the Legal State Party, MP Mher Shahgeldyan, during his press conference on June 20. He told the journalists that he had always liked the idea of nominating a joint oppositional candidate, however, he didn’t clarify …

The third president of Armenia will bear significantly more responsibilities to the state than the first and the second ones. Furthermore, each time that responsibility will be larger. There are two reasons for that. One: The inertia processes of the collapse of the great empire (Soviet Union) have ended (as in foreign policy, in inner …

The legend about “kind czars” and “bad boyars” (“boyars” are those who served the czars) has been implanted in Russia since feudal times. The point of the legend was that the czars were very kind and loved the people. They just didn’t know how badly the boyars treated the people. The legends were preserved till …

The “Armenian National Movement” political party will participate in the upcoming Armenian presidential elections with its own candidate. The party will convene a session in a couple of months where it will nominate its candidate and everyone knows who it will be: first president of the Republic of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. This is what the …

One of my acquaintances decided to open his own business after years of working in fuel distribution and founded a real estate agency. He saw me once and invited me to his newly opened office, where a long-legged girl with a short skirt, straight from the “glamour” magazines, opened the door. “She is our psychologist,” …

The deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Vahan Hovhannisyan, member of the ARF Bureau, says with regard to the presidential election of Karabakh that it is impossible to expect the full application of the democratic institutions in Nagorno-Karabakh. Hovhannisyan said this during a news conference on June 18 at the National Press Club. …

In one of his articles, political scientist Igor Muradyan named the former NKR NSS chairman, Bako Sahakyan, a “professional drug-addict” and an “unprofessional” KGB agent. The latter has resigned his position so he could run in the presidential elections. Do the voters of Karabakh know about that? The voters who, according to sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, …

“The ARF is going to have active participation in the development of the government agenda because it’s not only for the coming 8-9 months, but for a more long-term period,” deputy-chair of the National Assembly, Vahan Hovhannisyan, stated yesterday. He also added that the new government after the presidential elections will hardly feel the need …