Politics

The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet again today. The previous day, before their meeting, the international media was actively covering information about Putin’s proposal to Bush to jointly use the radar system of Gabala in the territory of Azerbaijan as a means of missile defense. Yesterday Azeri FM Elmar Mamediarov said that Azerbaijan …

Today in Saint Petersburg the meeting of Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliyev is planned. Recently, prior to that meeting, the region hosted the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group of OSCE and the acting OSCE chairman. They came, talked, and discussed, and said some optimistic things. Then they left. Parallel to that, in Armenia, certain noise …

The term of the coalition collaboration memorandum with ARF will finish several months before the upcoming presidential elections of 2008, as ARF is going to run with its own candidate, while ARP and PA have agreed to back the same candidate. Certainly, the mentioned candidate to be backed by these two governmental parties is Serge …

Yesterday ARP member Khachik Manukyan, who was elected under the majoritarian system in Precinct 15 (Talin and surrounding village communities), applied to CEC to drop his mandate. According to CEC chairman Gagik Azaryan, Manukyan does not explain his decision in any manner. It is worth mentioning that there have been many rallies and protests in …

Finally, a new coalition was formed in Armenia, which was formed based on the principle of 2+1. To note, “+1” is not the slogan of the “Impeachment” bloc, but the status of ARF in that coalition. ARF was successful in that it could both keep its potential opportunity to become opposition at any time, and …

In Baku, US co-chairman of the Minsk Group, Matthew Bryza, touching on the status of Nagorno Karabakh, said that the co-chairs have proposed to determine the status by a vote. "We proposed that the status of Nagorno Karabakh be defined by voting. The sides should define where voting should be conducted. OSCE Minsk Group can …

Today at 10:00 a.m. the first session of the 4th National Assembly will be summoned. This is one of those exquisite historical days when we’ll have the chance to see all the MPs present. After that we won’t be able to see many of those. They show up only during the voting of “top important” …

“Armenian Republican Party” and “Prosperous Armenia” party executed a coalition collaboration memorandum in the president’s office yesterday. Yesterday it was also announced that after some small disagreements, ARF became a part of the coalition too. ARF is going to be a part of the coalition government, but this time this relationship is called “cooperation”. Yesterday in …

The event of May 12 (Parliamentary elections) threw many people into despair, while many others are speaking about the uncorrectable deformation of the political system and blaming the people for that. But we should also note that the May events also have some positive sides, at which by looking we may think that the people …

Starting from May 12, the branch offices of the Legal State party have started to be “optimalized”. The number of those offices has started to drastically decrease because of lack of money. Of course it’s not only the Legal State offices that are being shut down, but the remarkable thing is that the Legal State …