Politics

American co-president of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza hopes that the next stage of negotiations between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers on the Karabagh conflict settlement will take place in the second half of April. “I hope that the meeting will take place in one of the cities of Eastern Europe in the …

On Saturday (12:30 AM) a group of people from a dark colored car (BMW model) took a shot at NA deputy Hakob Hakobyan’s car (candidate under majority system in Precinct 19). Fortunately there was no one in the car at that moment. Later, at 4:30 a group of people burnt the pre-election headquarters of candidate …

“Legal State” party is participating in the pre-election campaign with the following slogans: “Law and justice”, “With people, for people”. Yesterday, during the presentation of the LS pre-election campaign, Arthur Baghdasaryan said that by getting the public’s vote, the LS would be able to make efforts to develop the country into a competitive state with …

On April 7, deputy head of the CIS election monitoring mission headquarters, Evgeny Sloboda, met with the head of the OSCE election monitoring mission, Boris Frlets, and his deputy Yan Gorvin. During the meeting they discussed issues concerning the principles and methods of organizing their monitoring mission during the upcoming parliamentary elections. The CIS monitors …

The upcoming parliamentary elections differ from the previous ones by the fact that many candidates are suggesting their opponents to make an agreement memorandum on supporting democratic elections and not making electoral violations. Several days ago, the owner of “Hayastan” (Armenia) department store, “Prosperous Armenia” party member Hayrapet Hayrapetyan (nominated in Precinct 4 under the …

It turns out that in Echmiadzin they have a completely different understating about the campaign. In the first stage of the campaign in Echmiadzin several fireworks were organized – one in the form of shots, the other arson. The third one is the mysterious disappearance of people. They say that in the past the residents …

Says non-party candidate of #19 district, former commander of the 4th corps of military forces of Armenia, General Seyran Saroyan. – Hakob Hakobyan said that the shots that were made in the direction of his car on Saturday were organized by you. Meanwhile he said that you are pretending to be “dumb” by showing that …

On April 8 the Central Election Commission confirmed the duration and sequence of the paid and free Public Television/Radio airtimes offered to the 24 political parties and one alliance. Based on that, starting from April 10, during the entire campaign the total duration of the free airtime will be 2 minutes, while the duration for …

On April 9 the Dashnaktsutiun held a public meeting at the Charles Aznavour square near “Moscow” cinema to launch its pre-election campaign during which the political party leaders made their speeches. They presented their platforms to the people, for example, rise in population, life pensions and increase of average salaries. “Whoever doesn’t vote for the …

“National Unity” political party leader Artashes Geghamyan announced during a press conference on Monday that his party has decided to follow the methods of the U.S. government. What methods has Geghamyan decided to follow? It turns out that Americans always start out by formulating the issue, and then take action. This is the wise method …