Politics

“We enthusiastically welcome the Armenian parliamentary elections of May 12 and congratulate the Armenian people on a more successful poll than previous elections. I hope that the democratic processes will also progress in Armenia,” announced Ambassador John Danilovich, the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) yesterday in Yerevan. He also …

On June 9, in Saint Petersburg, Armenia registered another diplomatic victory. As informed by certain extremely free, yet a bit less responsible Armenian media representatives right after Kocharyan-Aliyev meeting, Kocharyan’s smile was wider than Aliyev’s. Moreover, according to certain estimations, right after the meeting Aliyev appeared in deep depression. This long expected meeting didn’t give …

Tigran Torosyan, chairman of the RA National Assembly, received on Monday the delegation headed by chief executive director of the “Millennium Challenges” corporation John Danilovich. Torosyan mentioned that the fact that the Armenian parliamentary elections were conducted based on democratic standards is of great political significance for the continuation of the “Millennium Challenges” program. The …

Republican Khachik Manukyan, who was elected as deputy on May 12, dropped his mandate early last week. During the press conference that followed shortly after, he explained what he did in the following way: “Since there were rumors flying around that there were violations, pressure, and more, I decided to drop my mandate to put …

The Constitutional Court of Armenia, which is known for approving decisions by the logic of “both the horseshoe and the nail” [“saying one thing, doing the other”], outdid itself Sunday and this time only hit the horseshoe (or only the nail, if you wish). On Sunday, as expected, the Constitutional Court denied the application of …

National Assembly Republican faction secretary Samvel Nikoyan is sure that there will not be any half-empty halls in the newly formed parliament. In addition, he is certain that the entrance of the new parties (“Heritage” and “Prosperous Armenia”) in parliament will essentially change the image of parliament because the parliament now has “parliamentarians with experience”, …

On Friday, June 8, RA President Robert Kocharyan signed a decree on the amendments and additions to the decree signed by the president on March 16, 2002. Based on the decree, the RA Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs has been renamed the RA Ministry of Culture. The state committee on physical education and sports …

On Friday the “Heritage” political party office sent to all the presses the responses of Raffi Hovhannisian to a series of questions given by the mass media. It is hard to say why Hovhannisian decided to communicate with the mass media this way. So, with regards to the question as to how he evaluates the …

On June 7, by the decision of the first instance court of the Shirak Marz, Gyumri resident Hovhannes Sahakyan was sentenced to two years and six months in jail, based on the charge of giving false information regarding a serious crime. Sahakyan had used a mobile phone card for one time use only on April …

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammedyarov announced Friday in Baku that the announcements made by the Armenian government officials with regards to defining the status of Nagorno-Karabakh in the beginning of the negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement are unconstructive. “If the Armenian side is once again trying to accept its former position [according to which …