Politics

There was a recent publication about one of the meetings of leader of the “Country of Law” party, Arthur Baghdasaryan, in the “Golos Armeni” paper. The article printed in the press was about the meeting of Baghdasaryan and a top-ranking official of the British Embassy [which had taken place in the “Marco Polo” café in …

– You participated by the majority electoral system during the previous parliamentary elections. Why did you decide to be nominated by the proportional electoral system this time and be included in the proportional electoral list of the Armenian Republican Party? – I have been elected by the majority electoral system five times. First I was …

Once Hrant Dink said in an interview, “In the past we had to communicate all that we had to say to the Turkish officials in letters or envelopes, now we should talk not only to them, but to the Turkish people too. Furthermore, we could talk to them through the media and in their language.” …

Today prime minister Serge Sargsyan has to appoint a defense minister. The prime minister will definitely assign this position to the head of the armed forces central headquarters, Michael Harutyunyan. Arthur Aghabekyan, ARF member and former deputy defense minister, also desires this position. The head of the ARF office for the Armenian case and political …

During his Sunday meeting with voters in Spitak, RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan said that those who promise that they can solve the issues of Spitak within one or two years after they get elected are perhaps good people, but they don’t know the real issues and obstacles of Spitak and Armenia overall. “It’s impossible …

Aram G. Sargsyan’s “Armenian Democratic Party” wants to be elected into the parliament in order to realize an Armenian model of social democracy. As “there aren’t such opportunities in the existing parliament”, they think that the participation in the elections is a needed step that may enable them to make the existing authorities resign. Aram …

A woman from Armavir region was listening to the speeches of the Alliance party representatives and Samvel Babayan on Saturday, however she wasn’t able to guess which political party was having a rally there. She asked to say a few words, and addressed them as members of the Unity alliance. The interesting thing is that …

Yesterday Aram G. Sargsyan announced that his ADP had sent a written suggestion to oppositional parties to establish joint headquarters but hadn’t received a response so far. The head of the Impeachment bloc, Nikol Pashinyan, announced that they have to be very cautious when choosing oppositional partners, because it may turn out that after the …

Kiro Manoyan, who is in charge of the Office of the Armenian Issue (Hay Dat) and Political Affairs of the ARF (Dashnaktsutyun Bureau), stated on April 23 at the Pastark Club that for the time being our efforts will not be directed at international recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 but at accentuating the …

During a meeting with chairman of the National Assembly Tigran Torosyan on Friday, head of the OSCE/ODIHR observatory mission Boris Frlets expressed the hope that the Police of Armenia quickly respond to the event which took place in Yerevan (the shootings in the Erebuni district on Thursday) in order to find out whether the shootings …