Politics

According to “Associated Press”, U.S. President George Bush nominated Richard Hoagland for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia again. It is worth mentioning that this is the second time that the U.S. Senate International Relations commission has disapproved the nomination of Richard Hoagland. Senator Robert Menendez stopped the confirmation of R. Hoagland, while a …

On December 28, 2006, there was an announcement on practically all Armenian television channels that the National Security Service of Armenia had arrested resident of the Lusarat village of the Ararat region Vahan Aronyan connected with the case brought up against leaders of the “Armenian Volunteers’ Union” party Zhirair Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan. According to …

Concerning Jirayr Sefilyan’s announcement that people should be empowered well so that make the opposition “understand something” firstly in words and later in some actions lawyer Vardan Harutyunyan said jokingly, “If they think so, they will have to arrest the oppositionists”.

Yesterday Tigran Urikhanyan said that he would give 1.000 Euro to anyone that would inform details about the thieves that have entered his apartments and stolen things from there. He promised to give more 1.000 Euro to anyone that would return him his medal presented to him by deputy of the Russian Duma N. Ryjkov. …

Yesterday following a long session the parliament decided not to change the decision of the secondary court to leave citizen of Lebanon, member of “Protection of liberated territories” and “Union of Armenian volunteers” civic initiatives Zhirayr Sefilyan under arrest. Also, the previous day the court decided also not to change its decision to leave Vardan …

The recent interview and predictions of the president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan concerning the existing political system in Armenia and the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections are interpreted differently. In spite of the fact that almost everyone thinks that the “political giants” will enter the parliament easily, the president’s view concerning the ULP was surprising. …

The society discusses the upcoming presidential elections of 2008 differently; mostly they discuss the “legal” and “pragmatic” aspects. The “legal” point is discussed the following manner: will the president be elected by public vote or through electoral violations in 2008? As for the “pragmatic” point, it is the following: will Serj Sargsyan become president in …

– As a human right protector, it’s understandable why you protect Zhirayr Sefilyan, however do you really agree with the announcements made by Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan? Do you see signs of violence in there? – As a legal protector I protect everyone even the last criminal perpetrator. I protect them regardless of their announcements. …

During a recent televised interview, Defense Minister of Armenia and president of the board of the Armenian Republican Party Serge Sargsyan rated the current political situation in Armenia as “calm with some action”.  “New parties entered the political field and made everything more active. I’m talking about the “Prosperous Armenia” party. This is a good …

Last week, the “Constitutional Rights Union” (CRU) party dispersed a message, stating that the “New Times” party will participate in the process of weakening the CRU and stopping the “Iravunk” paper from publishing articles about the party and that party leader Aram Karapetyan’s activities help the authorities get what they want”. A day before dispersing …