Politics

Leader of the “Orinats Yerkir” (Country of Law) party Arthur Baghdasaryan is of the opinion that it would be nice if the opposition participated in the upcoming parliamentary elections with a couple of groups and not united as one, however National Democratic Union leader Vazgen Manukyan tends to differ. “All oppositional parties must participate in …

If the upcoming Armenian National Assembly election results are falsified (of course, we hope that that will not happen), then it may lead to the raising of the issue of authorizations of the Armenian PACE delegation,” said special representative of general secretary of PACE in Armenia Boyana Urumova during a press conference on Friday and …

Centuries ago, Roman emperors were guided by the “Bread and Scenes” principle in order to maintain power. Many of the emperors believed that they needed to provide the people with bread and make scenes in order to keep their mouths shut and so that they won’t complain about the emperor. Some emperors used to organize …

The Russian “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” paper published an article on Friday with the title “Armenia is ready to change: Yerevan dreams about the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline”. According to “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, Armenia, which is Russia’s most strategic ally in the South Caucasus, “is ready to give a blow to Moscow’s economic interests at any given time”. The …

There are so many posters in different parts of Yerevan that it seems the pre-election official campaign has started. It is worth mentioning that the official campaign period starts the next day after the deadline of party and candidate registration period and finishes one day before the elections. The more the elections are approaching, the …

Yesterday the commander of the 4th military unit of the Armenian army, Major-General Seiran Saroyan has applied to the defense minister to cease his service in the army. “Army officers don’t have a right to think about resigning or not since they are special servants. They can only ask that from their chiefs. This is …

It is not clear yet who will be nominated in the precinct of Eghvard under majoritarian system. This is the precinct where LS member Aram Harutyunyan was elected and later after he got the city construction minister’s position the owner of “SAS” supermarket networks, Artak Sargsyan was elected. In that period Artak Sargsyan used to …

Yesterday a correspondent of “Aravot” newspaper asked Arthur Baghdasaryan whether the information covered by the press reading that he is connected with the conflict between UCR former leader Hrant Khachatryan and his colleqgues, to which he answered “no”. “We have met with both of them. We organized our party meetings with participation of both Hrant …

“Legal State” party organized a discussion on Tuesday and finally brought up a decision to take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections alone and not to enter into collaboration formats with other parties. Arthur Baghdasaryan has said that the proportional list of their party will consist only members of their party and will be ready …

Several days ago the PACE president, Karel De Gucht said in Yerevan that he believed the upcoming parliamentary elections would be democratic and would comply with the highest standards. However, Mr. Karel De Gucht did not say why he thought so. There isn’t anyone in Armenia that thinks so. Even the governmental politicians are not …