Politics

Hero of the Artsakh war and commander of the Armenian Army 39-year old Seyran Saroyan resigned from office based on his intention to enter the political field. The Armenian Republican Party has nominated S. Saroyan a deputy candidacy in the number 19 precinct (the Armavir province). – My first teacher was my grandfather, Zarzand Saroyan …

 “There are many candidates in Nagorno-Karabakh who deserve to be president. However, if there are deserving candidates in Armenia, then they can also be nominated. The field is open in Karabakh and anyone can participate in the elections, if, of course, that does not go against the law,” said President of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh …

According to our sources, the 6th police administration for the fight against organized crime arrested one of the security officials of the “Dashink” party led by Samvel Babayan on Sunday for obtaining an illegal weapon.

The report of the U.S. department of State writes in the section concerning the Karabakh conflict that Armenia continues keeping the Azeri territories and Karabakh occupied. Concerning this yesterday the RA foreign affairs minister, Vardan Oskanyan said that it was just a mistake and the Armenian government had already sent them their concerns about that …

These days the Armenian political parties are busy with finalizing their campaign programs and figuring out the most powerful tools they think will help them to attract the constituency.  For instance, our sources of information say that the main tool of Samvel Babayan’s “Dashink” party will be their announcement that the next president of Armenia …

Yesterday the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard Fassier met with the president of Karabakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan. Following the meeting Mr. Ghukasyan said that they discussed the issue of Karabakh’s participation in the negotiations. “Mr. Fassier clearly imagines that it is impossible to solve that problem without Karabakh. Unfortunately, there are things that …

U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Armenia Anthony Godfrey says that he is satisfied with the relationship of Armenia with NATO. “Now the U.S. Embassy in Armenia places a higher role in developing the Armenia-NATO relations as the office of NATO in Armenia works in the U.S. Embassy building since January, 2007 while it used to work …

Today the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard Fasier is leaving for Geneva from Yerevan, where he is going to meet with his American and Russian colleagues. Tomorrow the co-chairmen will meet with the Azeri and Armenian foreign affairs ministers as well. The meeting in Geneva was the reason why Mr. Fasier visited …

Yesterday the PPA has spread an announcement, which reads, “PPA has constantly been a target for both the government and political forces, which are trying to self-develop in the political field and think that the best way is to belie the PPA. The unprecedented attack against the People’s Party created a lot of anger and …

The follow-up to the previous meeting of the “Alternative” NGO/political initiative took place at the square near the Matenadaran building. Representatives of the Armenian National Movement, “Republic” party and the National Democratic Alliance were among the 1.5-2 thousand participants gathered at the meeting. Leader of “New Times” Aram Karapetyan was not present despite his promise …