Politics

Yesterday in the Liberty Square the regular rally of the Armenian National Congress took place, which was also the last rally of the year. It in fact outlined the plans which the ANC intends to implement closer to parliamentary elections 2012. And during the rally the key point wasn’t at all the joint declaration of …

RPA has referred to Heritage party leader Raffi Hovhannisian’ official letter to the RA president, in which the latter calls to release the state and education institutions from party affiliation in the sake of conducting free and fair elections. In RPA announcement is particularly stated: ”On November 21, 2011 Heritage party leader Raffi Hovhannisian presented …

Interview with Karapet Rubinyan, head of the Online Liberals’ Alliance initiative – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have signed the resolution on integration with the Eurasian economic union, agreement on Eurasian economic committee and its charter initiated by Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin last week. What is the goal of this initiative on part of Russia? – …

According to sources close to the RPA in the governmental elite pretty serious and quite hidden processes are taking place, which are directly or indirectly linked to the events of the recent period. We mean President Serzh Sargsyan’s change of attitude to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. More concretely, the governmental elite is discussing the extreme …

In the world the political situation continues to be complicated. The military actions are not over yet in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not yet clear in what direction the states of Northern Africa will develop, even the ones, which are coordinated by the west. The circle around Syria is stretched and the rumors in …

The spokesman of the RA prime minister informs that PM Tigran Sargsyan has applied to the general prosecutor’s office with a petition to investigate the allegations in the announcements of Harutyun Arakelyan and institute legal proceedings accordingly. H. Arakelyan accuses Tigran Sargsyan in embezzling 31 million dollars.

According to our information, following the appointment of Vladimir Gasparyan in the position of Armenia’s police chief the US government has decided to stop providing support to the police of Armenia. Before leaving from Armenia the former Ambassador of the US Marie Yovanovitch met with the ex-chief of the police Alik Sargsyan in summer and …

According to well informed sources, the dismissals being terminated in the last days will be further continued. They are going to be introduced “beneath the new light”. In particularly among the ruling elite there are active discussions about Arthur Baghdasaryan’s, Legal State party Chairman, possible termination out the secretary of National Security position. According to …

In his “Migration of the Armenian Population” article Thomas de Waal, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes that even as the world marked the birth of its seven billionth person last month, a few countries are confronting the problem of insufficient population. A majority of them are post-communist countries. According …

“When we analyze the political situation we understand that in Armenia it is a rule of political parties. The system is slowly becoming very similar to one-party system. People are waiting for the RPA’s session like in the Soviet times for the Communists’ party’s sessions. The political life now depends on the RPA’s sessions too,” …