Politics

The Turkish presence in the political field of Armenia

28.02.2007

Several months ago the Legal State party announces that after Artur Baghdasaryan’s visit to the United Kingdom he was appointed co-chairman of the Caucasian and Caspian Committee. As it’s well-known that such announcements of Baghdasaryan are full of bluff this information was also accepted quite humorously. In fact this process had a more serious and …

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The adventures of Armenian oppositionists in the US

28.02.2007

The assumptions, by which Armenia is a provincial country, won’t be argued with any wise person. It’s a pity that not only the country, lifestyle and leisure are provincial but also the political battle and public perception. Almost every time a mysterious message is spread in the city about the mysterious visit of Armenian oppositionists …

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Good decision

28.02.2007

The president of Karabakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan has once more stated that he is not going to run for president in Nagorno Karabakh for the third time since the international reputation of Karabakh is very important for him. By the way, the president blames in spreading such rumors the Mass Media first of all, indeed it …

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No surprises

28.02.2007

NA “Armenian Republican Party” faction secretary Gagik Melikyan assures that the number of businessmen in the proportional lists of their party will not grow, but will be reduced. Instead of that they will give those places to young people and women. Mr. Melikyan says that if the businessmen want to enter the parliament again, they …

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Stopped

28.02.2007

Yesterday CRU organized a board meeting. For your information, the court has made a decision to recover the places in the party that were replaced after a revolution inside the party in September, 2006. As we were informed yesterday by CRU board member Karen Vardanyan, the board has made a decision to replace the chief …

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Genetics and ideology

28.02.2007

“Armenian Labor and Socialistic Party” (ALSP) has not made a final decision yet whether to participate in the upcoming elections or not. The chair of this party, Movses Shahverdyan said yesterday that if they decide to participate in campaign they will advocate the ARF since their ideologies are common. “Our ideologies are socialistic”, – said …

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Towards the Soviet electoral system

28.02.2007

The fact that the “Alternative” movement opened the season of rallies definitely was symbolizing what will happen during the upcoming elections, i.e. the season of rallies was opened by a political organization that is not going to participate in the parliamentary elections. Certainly, there will be many rallies, meetings and speeches soon. However, it is …

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Let them have the passports

28.02.2007

Member of the Armenian National Movement (ANM) administration Hovhannes Igityan and National Assembly deputy and member of the United Labor Party (ULP) Grigor Ghonjeyan were supposed to debate on the dual citizenship law and domestic political issues. However, the debate didn’t go as planned because both had the same opinions regarding many issues. Both Igityan …

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Launch of public meetings

28.02.2007

The first assembly of the “Aylentrank” (Alternative) NGO/political organization took place at Freedom Square and based on different evaluations, there were 1500-2000 participants. Representatives of the Armenian National Movement, “Hanrapetutyun” (Republic), Armenian Democratic Party, “New Times” and other parties were also present. After the meeting, the participants marched towards the Public Television/Radio building as a …

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Are they asking him to run for the third term?

28.02.2007

It turns out that President of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh Arkadi Ghukasyan is not the one wishing to run for the third term, but rather representatives of different countries who ask him to nominate himself during the upcoming elections in Nagorno-Karabakh. But as Arkadi Ghukasyan says, he does not want to be president of Nagorno-Karabakh …

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