Politics

When the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board of Directors formed by U.S. President George Bush decided to grant Armenia 236.5 million dollars in 2005, the Armenian government tried to look at that decision as proof of the just complementariness and the progress of Armenia in different fields. Based on the MCC-Armenia Compact signed in March …

Recently, the European Court of Human Rights reached its verdict for the lawsuit presented by Armenia, according to which the Armenian government had infringed upon the freedom of Armen Mkrtchyan to organize peaceful meetings. The lawsuit was filed to the European Court of Human Rights in May 2002 by oppositionist, former member of the political …

“The problems and contradictions between Artashes Geghamyan and Stepan Demirchyan should be worked out, otherwise people may think that one cheats the other one. Generally I think that it is not possible to develop close cooperation between them” said Hmayak Hovhannisyan concerning the rumors that ADP and NU parties may enter into close cooperation and …

According to our information, the position of the RA National TV company chair will be assigned again to the head of the RA Radio and TV commission, Alexan Harutyunyan. The deadline for this position is January 19, however no one else has been nominated for that position so far. Neither Alexan Harutyunyan has been nominated …

The recent rumors concerning the possible cooperation between ADP and NU were spread mainly by the offices of those parties since the members of those parties don’t like that idea and are concerned about the possible cooperation. This is the reason why neither of those parties has published information so far whether they will collaborate …

Yesterday president Kocharyan had a meeting with the chairs of the taxation and customs departments and told them that they need to work hard and “be a little stronger and stricter” in order to be able to implement the requirements of the budget of 2007. The president told them that they are not politicians, they …

Yesterday president Kocharyan had a meeting with the prime minister, finance and economy minister, Police head, National Security Service head and the heads of the taxation and customs departments, where they discussed the work of the taxation and customs departments and what they have to do this year. The president said that the purpose of …

The upcoming parliamentary elections will take place in five months. The more the elections are approaching, the more actively the political powers are negotiating. It is spoken that the political powers of Arshak Sadoyan and Manouk Gasparyan have already agreed to join each other before the elections. It is very interesting that most of the …

Following the holydays the inner routine life of our country is getting active again, i.e. parties are getting ready for the upcoming elections, people are speaking about possible collaboration between different parties, parties are negotiating more actively, etc. As for the other groups that are not involved in politics directly, they are discussing whether the …

Most probably the “window of opportunities” of resolving the Karabagh conflict is not yet totally closed for the US. This assumption may be made only by analyzing the mildly said praising compliments paid to the president of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the part of well-known American magazines. For example, the “Washington Times” newspaper literally writes …