Politics

“Foolish”

23.12.2006

Answering to a question whether the actions they organized during the war are not like the actions that Sefilyan wants to organize now, which they say may be harmful for the state, ARF bureau representative, NA vice-speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan said, “If the ARF did not organize rallies, we wouldn’t win the war”. According to “A1+”, …

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Permanent connection with prosecutor

23.12.2006

NA deputy Hmayak Hovhannisyan and “National Unity” party are in conflict again. NU deputy leader Gagik Tadevosyan says that they have suggested the “Anti-criminal” movement to discuss the issue of Hmayak Hovhannisyan as a criminal factor. According to our information, Ruben Torosyan has collected some materials connected with privatizing the former CEC building in the …

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Does the opposition have no rating?

23.12.2006

Yesterday the chairman of the “Democratic Way” party (DWP), Manouk Gasparyan has chosen a quite big format to analyze the political situation of Armenia. He started with the arrest of Zhirayr Sefilyan and continued with the predictions of 2007-2008 elections, talked about the extremely high rating of Gagik Tsarukyan and the extremely low rating of …

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Why Zhirair Sefilyan?

23.12.2006

Many Armenians are trying to find the answer to this question after the arrest of coordinator of the “Liberated Lands Defense” and commander of the Shushi squad Zh. Sefilyan. Some think that this has something to do with the possibility of handing over the liberated lands of Karabakh, however many are of the opinion that …

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0,6% challenges accepted

23.12.2006

Time has come and $1,4 million out of the $236 million to be provided to Armenia in the framework of “Millennium Challenges” program will be transferred by the end of this year. By the way, the head of the Armenian representation of the mentioned program has expressed their concerns about the electoral violations of 2005 …

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Signature collecting

23.12.2006

Yesterday NA deputy Hmakayak Hovhannisyan collected 20 signatures from deputies to advocate for setting free the head of “Protection of Captured Territories” civic initiative, Jirayr Sefilyan. The mentioned statement of deputies petitions the police to raise all the baseless accusations and set him free. The deputy wants to petition the government to give Sefilyan citizenship …

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Why vindicate?

23.12.2006

The statesmen of Armenia don’t have to respond to the reaction of the international organizations because Arkadi Ghukasyan has already answered. Yesterday announced ANM board ember, Henrik Igityan when speaking about the international response about the NKR Constitutional Referendum. “I don’t think that the spokesman must incessantly respond to such things with not very diplomatic …

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Europe is disappointed

23.12.2006

“The issue of Karabagh must be solved through negotiations but not through referendum,” announced the permanent representative of EU in Caucasus, Peter Semneby when commenting on the Constitutional Referendum conducted in Karabagh days ago. “The Referendum is the issue that is currently being discussed in the framework of the process of negotiations. The EU expresses …

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New lobbyists are coming

23.12.2006

According to “Liberty” radio station Gerard Cafesjian, a U.S. philanthropist of Armenian descent, has set up a new lobbying organization has been set up, which he hopes will “complement” the existing Armenian-American advocacy groups and match their considerable influence in Washington. The Cafesjian-funded U.S.-Armenia Public Affairs Committee (USAPAC) announced its creation in a mission statement …

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Tolerating is better

23.12.2006

There is quite a number of ANM members in the recently formed “Alternative” civil-political group. The “Alternative” demands he resignation of the incumbent government by offering new alternatives. According to the “Alternative” the RA citizens must clearly know what’s going to happen to the government. Unlike the “Alternative” member of another recently formed “Civil disobedience” …

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