Politics

Recently, there are many rumors floating around about the possible nomination of Karabakh Deputy Foreign Minister Masis Mailyan for the upcoming Karabakh presidential elections. He is always the frontrunner in the surveys taken in Karabakh. Will Masis Mailyan participate in the presidential elections? In order to answer this question, KarabakhOpen asked Deputy Foreign Minister of …

It seems as though the Bible with its Ten Commandments and the entire legislature is enough to regulate human relations. In other words, in order for a person, especially if he is a functionary or a deputy candidate, not to cheat, steal or commit electoral fraud, it is enough for him to get acquainted with …

Yesterday president Kocharyan dismissed Serge Sargsyan from the defense minister’s position and appointed him as prime minister. By another order president Kocharyan dismissed Serge Sargsyan from the secretary’s position of the National Security Council adjacent to the president. Today R. Kocharyan will hold a governmental session, where he will present the new prime minister. According …

Anthony Godfrey, the U.S. charge d’affairs in Armenia, has told “ARKA” news agency that he hopes the recent attempt to kill the mayor of Gyumri, Vardan Ghukasyan, will not have any influence on the pre-election environment in Armenia. He said that he had talked to high-ranking police officials, who assured him the investigation ongoing and …

One of the main versions of the possible reasons of the recent attempted murder against Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan is that the reasons are not political. It is said that Vardan Ghukasyan, despite his faith in God (he always says that he strongly believes in God and enters churches on his knees), often has adventures. …

During the press conference given by the foreign affairs ministers of Armenia and Russia, Vardan Oskanyan and Sergey Lavrov, Oskanyan preferred to speak in Russian. The Mass Media representatives paid much attention to this fact, as was expected. However, we think this is not a grave thing and that there is no need to discuss …

During a recent CEC meeting, the representative of “Justice” bloc, Felix Khachatryan, said that according to Samvel Babayan’s reference, he is a citizen of Armenia but has lived in Armenia since only 2006. According to the RA Constitution, NA deputies have to have lived in Armenia during the last five years before the elections. Felix …

Yesterday the culture club of Echmiadzin, where TEC #19 is located, was surrounded by people and policemen. The latter have blocked the road, which leads to the club with metal barriers, where at 2p.m. the next session of the commission was supposed to take place. During that session the commission was to decide whether they …

The National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabagh made the decision to set July 19 as the day of the Karabagh presidential elections. The parliament also decided to declare July 19 as Labor Day. Let us recall that the possible presidential candidates are head of the National Security Service of Karabagh, Bako Sahakyan, and chairman of the National …

The Central Election Commission registered the proportional electoral lists of 24 political parties and 1 from “Alliance” on Wednesday. Based on that, the “Dashink” political party will not participate with its list of 47 candidates, but rather 38. Let us recall that nine members of “Dashink” had not presented the necessary documents to the CEC …