Politics

Every time the negotiation process of the Karabakh conflict is activated and the co-chairmen announce that the sides have never been so close to resolution, parallel discussions are launched about why the liberated regions are not populated. NKR President Arkady Ghukasyan announces that Karabakh is not able to populate those regions on its own. It’s …

Yesterday the Central Electoral Commission held an extraordinary meeting and decided to register the members of parliament elected on the party tickets. Felix Khachatryan, the representative of the Justice Alliance to the CEC, was against this decision. He proposed delaying the discussion of this question because the Constitutional Court is currently hearing the appeals regarding …

Matthew Bryza, American co-president of the OSCE Minsk Group, announced Wednesday in Baku that he shares the opinion of the existing president of the OSCE and Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos, who had announced in Baku on Tuesday that “the sides have never been this close to the conflict settlement”. “As to …

“This parliament is much worse than the previous,” said Arshak Sadoyan Wednesday hours before leaving parliament. According to him, the issues have been moved from the National Assembly to the field of a certain political party. “The Republicans are going to decide everything and the National Assembly plays a smaller role,” explained Sadoyan Wednesday at …

Leader of “Heritage” party Raffi Hovhannisyan addressed a letter Wednesday to Chairman of the National Assembly Tigran Torosyan, in which it is particularly stated: “Based on the requirements of the Constitution, the first session of the fourth convention of the National Assembly still has not taken place. Until now “Heritage” has not received an invitation …

“The past four years were the most effective for Armenia and were known for the effective reforms and unprecedented economic growth, which provided the opportunity to solve essential issues in the social sector,” announced RA president Robert Kocharyan during the last session of the existing government of Armenia (according to the RA Constitution, the government …

Now one of the most discussed issues is the issue of forming a new government. At the same time, it seems that the key issue has already been decided; the government will be formed by coalition. In a word, ARP will “willingly” give portfolios to PA and ARF too. Now let’s try to find out …

The negotiations around the formation of the new government continue in top secrecy. But as the negotiations relate to the temporary government, we may assume that those are stipulated by the presidential elections of 2008. Will the ARF agree to take part of the government “at hand” now or will it take a risk to …

Leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) appeared to have failed to agree to the terms for their party’s continued presence in Armenia’s government, during nearly two hours of negotiations with President Robert Kocharyan on Wednesday. The meeting between Kocharyan and two top Dashnaktsutyun leaders, Armen Rustamyan and Hrant Margaryan, was part of ongoing talks …

On the night of May 28, a group of anonymous people burnt the front door of the apartment of member of the People’s Party of Armenia and deputy candidate nominated under the majoritarian system in the 31st precinct of Lori Marz, Larisa Paremuzyan. Mrs. Paremuzyan had managed to call her neighbors for help and put …