Politics

The National Assembly of Armenia approved the bill on the national anthem of Armenia on December 25 after the third reading. There were 71 in favor, 6 against and 6 neutral. The approved bill will be in effect the 10th day after the confirmation of the Armenian president, which means that Armenia will welcome the …

Things are still heated up at the “Constitutional Rights Union” (CRU) party. It all started with the overturn a couple of months ago during the CRU session. After the overturn, leader of the CRU Hrant Khachatryan announced that he was leaving the political field. Currently, the Khachatryan and Babajanyan wings of the party are debating …

Following the recent scandal inside UCR party a secret recording was published in papers, which said that the former deputy director of the UCR, Haik Babukhanyan sold the places of their party in electoral commissions. There are rumors that as a result of this “deal” candidate for president’s position Aram Karapetyan received fewer votes in …

The more the elections are coming up, the more the political powers use different PR strategies and tools. Concerning the influence on Russia it is thought in Armenia that they mainly publish articles in foreign papers. Usually such articles are accepted and discussed in Armenia as a message by the given reporter that is supported …

These days the activists of former defense minister of Karabakh, war participants, general-lieutenant Samvel Babayan’s “Dashink” political party are going door to door to introduce their political program and distribute brochures about their party. In fact, there isn’t anything wrong in these actions. In the coming year of “the pig” all the parties will try to …

On Friday, the committee “In defense of Zhirair Sefilyan and Vartan Malkhasyan” of Javakhk dispersed a message, which strictly condemns “the course taken by leader of the “National Unity” party of Armenia Artashes Geghamyan towards breaking the defense of Zhirair Sefilyan and Vahagn Chakhalyan” and “assures that the activities of the Armenian party leader will …

Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Markaryan is also of the opinion that it is necessary to freeze the Karabakh conflict negotiations until the upcoming parliamentary elections. “We’re not just freezing the negotiations for the sake of freezing; that’s the process. We don’t want the process to become a subject for speculation in the political field. …

This was the call made by the political secretary of the “Liberated Lands Defense” organization Armen Aghayan to the Armenian National Security Service (NSS) workers during a press conference. Mr. Aghayan made this call during the demonstration organized by the board coordinating the defense movement for Zhirair Sefilyan and Vartan Malkhasyan in front of the …

Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan was the guest during the press conference held at the “Hayeli” club on Friday. Journalists were surprised to see that the prime minister had chosen to communicate with them through the means of a press conference-something which he usually doesn’t do. However, it turned out later that there was a reason …

The police-chief policy of the current Armenian authorities has taken its toll and has incremented to terrorism. On December 20, 2006, head of the Nalbandyan village of the Armavir region of Armenia was killed. The political component has been supreme in all the previous murders and this one was no exception. The gangs patronized by …