Politics

Modestly said, what the Armenian citizens saw on the May 12 election day doesn’t have anything in common with what the international monitors saw. It turns out that hundreds of international monitors, who been deployed in Armenia’s precincts, didn’t notice any serious violations. They only noticed some “not dangerous” shortcomings, which didn’t affect the results …

“Any potential violations during the upcoming elections will affect the reputation of Armenia, the Armenian people, and the political powers very much,” FM Vardan Oskanyan said yesterday in his interview given to “Azatutyun” radio station, while meeting with OSCE MG co-chairs in Strasbourg. “The trust in Armenia may be lost this time since this time …

A lot of characterizations, such as “decisive” and “very important”, have been spoken so far about the parliamentary elections of May 12. Certainly, these characterizations are correct, as many things depend on the fairness of these elections. The problem is not the positive or negative estimations found by international observers, but the fact of whether …

There is no need to find political context in this title and draw assumptions as to whom the judgement day is for, especially when every single careless word may be considered as advocacy. May 12 (and in general all the elections of Armenia) has one thing in common with the judgement day – the dead …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev announced on May 4 that since “the Armenian side is misinforming the public days before the parliamentary elections”, he is forced to reveal the contents of the confidential talks. Aliev mentioned that the Armenian side claims that there is an agreement only on the liberation of five regions (regions near Nagorno-Karabagh), …

Aram Karapetyan and Aram Z. Sargsyan made the following announcement during a press conference on May 11 with regards to the fact that the Police of Armenia consider Nikol Pashinyan as the organizer of the public meeting on May 9: “We are all organizers-one organizer, plus another, plus another, and so on and so forth.” …

Despite the rainy weather, the public rally of the “Impeachment” alliance, the “Republic” and “New Times” political parties held near the Matenadaran on Wednesday was probably the highest attended rally in Armenia in the past three to four years. Member of the forum for intellectuals and academician Rafael Ghazaryan was among the participants. Recalling the …

Beginning in the previous ten editions Kocharyan was re-elected president in 2003. The parliamentary elections were still ahead and they were going to decide the future of Armenian politics. Most of the Armenian mass media was under control. Although the opposition was united in one alliance, we could say that they were wiped out and/or …

“I have set a political record by being in 3,000 residencies of the Arabkir district,” Aram Manukyan, member of the Armenian National Movement administration, announced on Wednesday. “I have been able to talk with nearly 5,000 people in a month.” Based on his estimates, he has met with 161 people on a daily basis. Not …

“When you are wearing an army uniform, say who gave it to you. When you are speaking about victory, say who the general commander was and also say the names of all the people that were standing with you and helping you gain that victory, not depending on their ideological orientation,” ANM board member Hovhannes …