Politics

This is what leader of the “Zharangutyun” (Inheritance) political party Raffi Hovhannisyan said to Armenian television network representatives as he began the press conference on Friday. Hovhannisyan said that he wants to be nominated in the majority electoral system during the upcoming parliamentary elections. He is in favor of having a large oppositional alliance and …

The Armenian opposition has split in two while on the threshold of the parliamentary elections. One side believes that they need to take part in the elections with a large alliance, while the others believe that, on the contrary, they have to participate separately. In fact, those in favor of that “base” their opinions with …

To this day (while it is the 21st century abroad) Armenians are of the opinion that the Armenian woman differs from the women of all other nations in that she has a large and exclusive amount of virtues. The fact that this is simply a nice legend, that women all around the world are similar …

Political powers develop their PR campaign differently. Some of them give interviews to European papers and interpret them in Armenia, others discuss the issue of dual citizenship to campaign among the Diaspora, etc. As for “Dashink” party, their campaigning program is very original. Recently the chair of the National Union of Curds, Aziz Tamoyan petitioned …

Yesterday president Kocharyan signed an order to cease the service of defense minister deputy, general-lieutenant Arthur Aghabekyan. Mr. Aghabekyan wants to become a member of parliament and is going to recover his membership in ARF.

Yesterday the parliament delayed the discussion on dual citizenship till Monday. The NA commissions shall develop their recommendations in order to organize discussions. Yesterday concerning the discussions the NA speaker, Tigran Torosyan said, “People vote for their future. How can they vote for the future of others if their future is connected with other countries?” …

NA speaker Tigran Torosyan has sent invitations to international parliamentary institutions to invite election monitors to observe the upcoming parliamentary elections of May 12. The speaker sent invitations to the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, OSCE Parliamentary Council, CIS parliamentary Council and Euro Parliament.

– It is not a secret any more that four or three oppositional parties are negotiating on founding a united political unit before the upcoming elections (ADP, ADU, “Republic” and “Heritage” parties). Haven’t you been suggested to join them? – I haven’t been suggested to join these four parties, but the ideological background that we …

Let’s mention those main points, which chairman of the Legal State Party, Artur Baghdasaryan expressed in his speech in the US Strategic and International Research Center. Also the audio recording of the speech is available at the website of the center. Indeed, certain of his inner political remarks, may become a topic for separate publications. …

The United Communistic Party of Armenia hasn’t yet clarified the format of its participation in the coming Parliamentary elections of Armenia. Although there are only a few days left before presentation of the finalized list the chairman of the UCP, Yuri Manukyan says that the party is still thinking and that in a week they …