Politics

Everyone in Armenia knows that the “Rule of Law” party and the “Alliance” party headed by Samvel Babayan are working closely together. There is a very high chance that the two parties will cooperate during the upcoming Armenian parliamentary elections (despite the fact that the “Alliance” administration has announced several times that they won’t participate …

Yesterday the NA with 64 for and 5 against votes has adopted the bill on state anthem by the second reading, which states following: “the current “Our Fatherland” anthem is valid until Armenia adopts the text and the music of the new anthem of RA.” The bill will be subject to discussion and adoption through …

Probably starting from February next year the anti-criminal movement will launch its public activities. Yesterday the chairman of the New Times Party made an announcement about this. Meanwhile he added that if this process doesn’t take place in the framework of the anti-criminal movement, the New Times will do it on its own. He means …

“I totally agree with what Tigran Hakobyan said about that,” said Davit Shahnazaryan during the conversation with our reporter. He refused to give details about the possibility of Zhirayr Sefilyan’s connection with “Dro” case.

Yesterday during the meeting with the journalists the chairman of the People’s Party, director of the ALM Holding, Tigran Karapetyan announced that he will nominate his candidacy for presidential elections 2008 by all means. Karapetyan has explained for very long why he’s going to do so. And the whole point of that is that people …

“We already got used to the fact that the statements about Karabagh conflict resolution, made by the President of Azerbaijan, are remarkable by their aggressiveness,” informed to Arminfo, RA President’s press secretary, Victor Soghomonyan when commenting on the speech of Azerbaijan’s President in the Parliament of Nakhijevan on December 21. “Most probably it’s a way …

Yesterday American “The Wall Street Journal” published an interview given by RA defense minister Serj Sargsyan entitled “Even though the Genocide…”, in which the minister says that he hopes the process of integrating Turkey in the EU would give a long-expected opportunity to develop civil relationship between Armenia and Turkey. “We think that the negotiations …

– The press widely covered the information and the statement of the head of “The Union of Armenian volunteers”, Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan, because of which they were arrested. Do you think their statement contains anything targeted to “Changing the requirements of the RA Constitution by using power” as they are accused for? – I …

The announcement of Robert Kocharyan made during the interview of three TV companies, according to which during the pre-election period the negotiation activeness has reduced in order to avoid inner political games around the Karabagh conflict, was really sensational. The problem is not only the fact that things are this are not spoken out loud …

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan talked about the “Prosperous Armenia” party during his interviews with well-known Armenian television channels last week, mentioning that Armenia finally has a new, political power with a simple slogan: “We care about our people.” It turns out that the rest of the parties, especially the United Labor Party (ULP), don’t care …