Politics

Leaving the ship

07.02.2007

According to our information, RL faction member, NA deputy elected under majoritarian system Vram Gyulzadyan is going to announce in the parliament in February month that he is leaving from “Rule of Law” party. As for Karlos Petrosyan’s cousin, Khachik Petrosyan, his intentions are not clear yet; however, it is a long time that he …

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Gold mines to be given to Russians

07.02.2007

According to our information, “Vedanta resources” company is going to sell “Ararat Gold Mining Enterprise” (AGME), i.e. the Armenian government wants them to sell it.ey said that Russia was going to invest in the Armenian mining businesses. According to our information, the Armenian government intends to give the AGME plants to Russians. By the way, …

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Mutual

07.02.2007

It seems that the predictions that some parties are not going to participate in elections, but are going to petition voters to vote for the party of Samvel Babayan (Dashink) are coming true. According to our information, “Ramkavar-azatakan” party is going to petition people to vote for “Dashink” party. Instead, the leader of that party, …

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Logical suggestion

07.02.2007

Yesterday RA foreign affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan said in Hague that Armenia agreed with the document on the table of Karabakh conflict negotiations. “The OSCE co-chairs have developed a suggestion on the table of negotiations, which we think is logical. If we continue the content of this document in the same manner, the outcome of …

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Just an Armenian phenomenon

07.02.2007

The oppositional powers say that the upcoming parliamentary elections are going to be violated, indeed the authorities assure that this time the elections will not be violated and will be fair. Please pay attention to the words “this time”. In fact, it means that they agree with the fact that the previous elections were violated …

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They don’t want yet

07.02.2007

Yesterday RL deputy chairman Mher Shahgeldyan said that their party was going to make its final decision on the campaigning policy during the upcoming parliamentary election basing on the recommendations of their regional headquarters. This means that the RL leaders have not decided yet whether they are going to participate in the elections alone or …

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Taste has no friend

07.02.2007

Perhaps based on the fact that this year is a pre-election year the Legal State Party decided to conduct a congress of several sessions. Of course, yesterday it was the turn of the youth wing of the party but the podium was mostly occupied by party “pensioners” – Artur Baghdasaryan, Mher Shahgeldyan and Heghine Bisharyan, …

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Notice

03.02.2007

The Zharangutyun (Inheritance) political party dispersed a notice regarding the obstacles the party faced in 2005-2006. Zharangutyun affirms that it’s obligated to start the pre-electoral campaign while being in completely unequal conditions; it worries that the unequal opportunities created by the current authorities for the real opposition already put the free and fair conduct of …

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They will not back

03.02.2007

ARF Bureau representative Hrant Markaryan announced on Monday that the ARF will take part in the upcoming Armenian presidential elections with its own candidate. “We’re going to have our own candidate and this means that we are not going to back any other candidate,” said H. Markaryan, clarifying that their candidate is not going to …

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Armenia won’t participate

03.02.2007

The Armenian delegation will most probably not participate in the PACE spring session preparation. This is what head of the PACE Armenian delegation and Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Tigran Torosyan said during a press conference held on Monday as he tied that with the pre-electoral period in Armenia. The resolution on Armenia’s …

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