Politics

The executive chief of “The millennium challenges corporation”, John Danilovich has said that the aids program for Armenia may be frozen if “something serious happens”. “If something very serious happens; for example if the elections are delayed, I mean delayed but not stopped, the article for freezing the program may be applied” said Mr. Danilovich …

Yesterday Daniel Frid, deputy to the U.S. state secretary, petitioned the Senate not to bring up the bill of recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Speaking at the House of Representatives department of Europe Daniel Frid said that the issue of the Armenian Genocide was a challenge against the American-Turkish relations. He also said that “it might …

The recent statement of the U.S. Department of State reading that “Armenia continues keeping the territories of Azerbaijan, i.e. the seven regions and as well as the territory of Karbakh occupied” is a result of fiasco in the Armenian foreign affairs. This is a consequence of a poor and emotional foreign policy, due to which …

If the ARF (Dashnaks) manage to receive a huge number of votes during the upcoming parliamentary elections, they may be a part of the future coalition. The top authorities have agreed that the third political power to form a coalition together with the ARP and Prosperous Armenia will be the ARF. As the ARF is …

One of the topics that are discussed most these days is the issue of Samvel Babayan’s party and the recent incidents. Recently one of Samvel Babayan’s body guards was arrested and accused in keeping illegal weapons. It is also said that this person is Samvel Babayan’s driver. We asked for information from “Dashink” party representatives, …

Even though the official campaign period has not started yet, people “are fed up with the speeches of those thinking about them most”. One of them said to us, “If I could I would bring case against those that use the name of “people” and speak in the name of “people”. Why do they lie? …

Many political parties complain that if they buy a couple of posters for campaigning purposes they will have to spend all their resources. However, facts come to prove that they are not true. To note, according to the RA Electoral Code, during the pre-election campaign period candidates can spend up to AMD 5 mln, and …

A number of Armenian Mass Media representatives have jointly made a code of conduct for journalists and voluntarily agreed with the ethical norms of informing and journalism. Yesterday during a seminar entitled “Journalist’s ethics as a base for Mass Media” the head of the OSCE office in Armenia, Mr. Vladimir Pryakhin said that Armenia is …

Yesterday during a discussion organized at the U.S. Embassy in Armenia doctor of political sciences Valeri Bans said that Armenia has all the necessary democratic factors, which are independence of Media, free elections, competition between political institutions, however these components are not enough to consider Armenia a democratic state. He is mostly interested in the …

It is time to remove the office of “Pastark” club from the existing location. The reason is not intimidation or discomfort, but something more important… The reason is the person who offers $120k to anyone that would kill Ramil Safarov that killed Armenian army officer Gurgen Margaryan. For this purpose this man is ready both …