Politics

The drafts for reform proposals to the laws on “Television and Radio” and “Television and Radio National Committee Regulation” were approved by the first reading during an out-of-turn National Assembly session on Wednesday. The proposed reforms were aimed to make the existing laws correspond to the Constitution. The National Assembly continued the discussion on the …

19 years ago, in 1988 the regional council of the Nagorno Karabakh sovereign region made a decision to start a movement, which grew to a Pan Armenian movement. This movement brought up many new heros, ideologies, dreams… Despite the fact that we could reach highest values such as independence in Armenia and Karabakh, we haven’t …

Answering to a question proposed by a correspondent of “Figaro” asking what kind of solutions Armenia expects from the Karabakh conflict negotiations, RA president Robert Kocharyan said that all the nations have a right for independence. “There aren’t any examples when a nation may refuse its independence after having it” said the president of Armenia. …

Yesterday RA president Kocharyan met with the president of France, Jacques Chirac in the Yelisey Palace. According to “Azatutyun” (Liberty) radio station, after the meeting president Kocharyan just shook his hand and said, “Everything is good”. Yesterday before the meeting Mr. Jacques Chirac and Robert Kocharyan participated in opening the “Armenia Sacra” exhibition (Saint Armenia) …

According to our information, the board of the “Armenian Republican Party” has decided to include only one person from the Sahakyans in their proportional electoral lists, i.e. Galust Sahakyan. As for Arman Sahakyan, after the elections he will be given a job in the executive branch. By the way, according to our information Galust Sahakyan …

According to our information, Gagik Mkheyan and Gagik Avetyan, NA deputies and “Legal State” party members are going to drop their memberships in the LS. According to our information they are going to be included in the proportional lists of Tigran Karapetyan’s “Armenian People’s Party”. Besides these two members also Artak Sargsyan (the owner of …

Robert Kocharyan gave an interview to “Figaro”, where he stated that Armenia is ready to develop diplomatic relations with Turkey without any preconditions. The president of Armenia rejected Turkey’s suggestion to found a group of historians to investigate the incidents of 1915 (the Genocide) and petitioned the Turkish government to found an intergovernmental commission. “Developing …

The passions around the Constitutional Right Union CRU are taking a new stride. As it’s known things came to even arm fight. Let’s remind that Hrant Khachatryan’s supporters turned to the Court of the First Instance asking to cancel the decisions taken on September 16, 2006, during the 17th conference of the Constitutional Right Union. …

Instead of preamble Dear reader, it’s evident that the political field of Armenia needs a deep analysis. The serious efforts of our political scientists and politicians cannot be compared with any ideas of Machiavelli, Churchill, etc. By having deep respect to our scientific potential we’d still like to hear the opinion of world-known thinkers about …

Arshak Sadoyan will soon appeal to a number of countries and international organizations suggesting them to offer one-hour leased airtime on any state-run television network with the purpose of spreading the word about the elections. If the organizations don’t respond in ten days, A. Sadoyan threatens to appeal to the people and mass media of …