Politics

On the “road” towards analyzing the invented methods of campaign applied by the current political powers of Armenia, our “train” stopped at the United Labor Party (ULP) “station”. At the portal of the “station”, we see the campaign poster with the picture of political party leader Gurgen Arsenyan dressed in a pink shirt and the …

Yesterday NA deputy Aram G. Sargsyan suggested the parliament not to fulfill the Constitutional Court’s decision of February 16 (it declares that the provisions of the NA by-laws stating that the national TV “H1” should broadcast the “Parliamentary Hour” program and concrete hours of Q/A sessions in the parliament is in contradiction with the Constitution) …

According to our information, “National Revival” party chair Albert Bazeyan is going to be the second candidate after Stepan Demirchyan in PPA electoral lists. It is not excluded that Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who is a board member of that party, may be included in the lists too. However, our sources assure that he will not be …

RA Foreign Affairs Minister, Vardan Oskanyan yesterday announced that he supports the dual-citizenship bill. “If we adopt dual nationality, it must be complete, dual nationals should be granted full rights,” stated the foreign minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan on February 26 in Yerevan. The reporters tried to find out if the minister endorses eligibility of …

According to our information, a decision was taken to “give” the 19th precinct of Echmiadzin (this is the precinct of NA deputy Hakob Hakobyan) to Seiran Saroyan during the parliamentary elections, who recently resigned and ceased his service in the army. As for Hakob Hakobyan, yesterday he applied to the Precinct Electoral Commission for registration.

According to our information, besides Karen Karapetyan there will be more representatives of the NA “People’s Deputy” faction included in the proportional electoral lists of ARP. Our sources assure that Mkrtich Minasyan, Arakel Movsisyan (Shmays) and Vladimir Badalyan will be included in the ARP lists too.

“The proportional list of the National Democratic Party (NDP) will involve 72-members,” the decision was made in the party’s session. The list is headed by Loreta Adamyan. To note, 20 members of the list are female representatives. Shavarsh Kocharyan, head of the party’s board, is in the 71st place in the list. “The list has …

Former Legal State members occupied the first 4 leading places in the proportional list of Tigran Karapetyan’s People’s Party. During the Party Congress on Saturday, Karapetyan publicized the final list. The first six places include former Legal State members – NA deputies Samvel Shahgaldyan (brother of Kovalenko Shahgaldyan, Kotayk’s governor), Gagik Mkheyan, owner of SAS …

At this time of the year the people living in the villages are most concerned about agricultural issues. The villagers are thinking about the money to buy devices for land cultivation, seeds. In spring the main topics of the conversation of villagers relate to the abovementioned. However once 4-5 years another interesting topic appears among …

A five-year $2,860,000 dollar compact was signed by the “Millennium Challenges Corporation-Armenia” and the “Water Economy Development Project Implementation” state-run institution on Friday at the Government of Armenia. Minister of Territorial Administration Hovik Abrahamyan participated in the signing ceremony. Based on the compact, it is foreseen to implement the “Substructures” component of the “Irrigated Agriculture” …