Politics

Archbishop Mesrop Mutafyan of the Armenian Patriarch of Turkey is of the opinion that the approval of the Armenian Genocide recognition bill in U.S. Congress “will not benefit anyone”. The spiritual leader of the Turkish-Armenians told “Anatolia” agency that “it makes no sense to take any steps that may have a negative influence on the …

A round-table discussion was organized on March 22 with the initiative of the “Unity for Russia” fund and “Russia’s strategy” journal. The theme was interesting: “Parliamentary and Presidential elections in Armenia and Russia’s interests”. Head of the interregional and cultural issues department of the Russian president’s administration Modest Kolerov was also present during the discussion. …

Last year RA Ambassador to UN Armen Martirosyan was in the center of attention connected with including the GUAM “issue of frozen conflicts” in the UN GA agenda. In fact, the Ambassador did not have an opportunity to describe several core principals, due to which both the society and Media were confused, as well as …

It turns out that the section on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the U.S. State Department report is the perception of a certain person who wrote it and is not the U.S. position on the conflict. At least this is what Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan announced. Those Americans are really amazing; they …

Stepan Zoryan wrote a small talk entitled “Tigran from Zangezur”. One day “bolshevik” Tigran was standing in their balcony and saw an archbishop walking in the street crowded by people. He didn’t like that “appearance”, went down from the balcony and hit the archbishop. “His hat flew away when I hit him”, says Tigran and …

It is kind of hard to mention one Armenian political party where there have not been any interior political conflicts during the past couple of years. Some parties have even split as a result of those conflicts. It seemed as though the most closed and most organized political party in the political field of Armenia-the …

An Armenian political activist told “168 Hours” that the OSCE/ODIHR is implementing observatory missions in countries where there are interests of great powers.  “If this is not the case, then isn’t it suspicious why, for example, the ODIHR only sent a five-member “Election Evaluation Mission” to Turkey in 2002 in a country which has a …

“Armenia continues to keep Azerbaijan’s territories, including Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven regions, occupied”. This is what was stated in the Armenia section of the recent U.S. State Department report. We know that after reading this, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan had mentioned that that was an “error and a misprint”. During a …

Beginning in previous two editions The change of power that was being planned was not going to be anything like “October 27”. The average partisans of the traditional political party used to tell me that there will be no bloodshed and that there may be one victim at the most. Time would pass before I …

The OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was opened in Yerevan on March 19 and it launched the long-term observatory mission for the Armenian parliamentary elections to be held on May 12. The election observers are in Armenia with the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. Thirteen observers will …