Politics

The Lori region of Armenia is still weighing the issue concerning the nominations of deputies in the majority electoral system for the upcoming National Assembly elections. According to our sources, however, the majority spots are already distributed in the region and there is no room left for Victor Dallakyan. National Assembly Deputy Vahram Baghdasaryan announces …

With the order of President Robert Kocharyan, General/Major Seyran Saroyan was removed from the post of the 4th military corpus commander of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia. It is worth mentioning that Saroyan was removed based on his application and the reason for quitting had to do with the upcoming National Assembly elections. According …

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan left for Paris on Wednesday to meet with the OSCE Minsk Group copresidents and the special representative of the existing OSCE president. The copresidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Brayza, Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernar Fasie began the consultations in Paris on Wednesday with the participation of the special representative …

Last week the National Assembly began discussing the dual citizenship legislation. As expected, the main debate was on the right to vote or get elected of Armenian citizens who are also dual citizens. According to Armenian Justice Minister David Harutyunyan, based on the worry that people who have never lived in Armenia may have an …

On Saturday the head of “Republic” party, Aram Sargsyan left for Washington, where he is going to meet with U.S. legislative and governmental representatives. The spokesman of “Republic” party has informed that Aram Sargsyan is also going to meet with representatives of large non-governmental organizations and research centers.

Rumors say that the ADP leaders have suggested the “de jure” leader of UCR, Hrant Khachatryan, to be nominated in their proportional electoral lists. Several days ago the ADP leader, Stepan Demirchyan, and Hrant Khachatryan had a meeting in the ADP office, which lasted over two hours. According to our information, the mentioned two representatives …

Yesterday the New Times party applied to its opposition counterparts. He asked them to create a joint proportional opposition candidate list. The list will include party leaders, members of the joint forum of intelligentsia and individual politicians. “We are sure that the joint struggle will enable us more productively fight against election fraud and will …

According to the official information of Yerevan, the construction of Kars-Akhalkalak railways cannot isolate Armenia, cannot influence on the Armenian economy, it follows political purposes only and its expenditure is not reasonable. It is worth mentioning that RA foreign affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan said in the parliament on February 7 that everything was not clear …

On February 10 the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vardan Oskanyan through “Azg” daily responded on the recent publications of the media abut the recent statements of the Minister made in the National Assembly on February 7. According to his statements the railway Kars-Akhalkalak doesn’t isolate Armenia at all and doesn’t harm Armenia’s economy. "I’ve …

On February 17, Robert Kocharyan will leave for an official visit to France where he will meet with high-ranking French government officials. This is what the Armenian president’s press speaker told “ARCA”. According to the press speaker, a wide range of issues will be discussed during the meetings, including political/economic components of French-Armenian relations, regional …