Politics

Yesterday the “Anti-criminal” movement organized its next discussion in “Armenia-Marriott” Hotel. The topic of the discussion was the “Role of mass media in the fight against criminality.” The discussion proceeded in participation of the chairman of the “New Times” party, Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the “National self-determination” Party, Paruyr Hayrikyan, representative of the “Republic” party, …

Governmental political forces have started to actively and illegally campaign and the TV companies are actively stimulating election bribes. Such an opinion was made in “Pastark” club by PPA member, NA “Justice” faction member, MP, Grigor Harutyunyan. According to him the opposition cannot violate the law. Based on this we may suppose that the opposition …

In France two criminals accused in stealing an Armenian Genocide monument have been arrested. According to Police, they stole the monument that had the Armenian alphabet on it and sold it as bronze (300 kilo). The French Police assure there are no political reasons for this robbery. They stole the monument just in two days …

“Anti-Criminal” political movement leaders are going to organize discussions frequently. Yesterday they organized their first discussion, where they discussed issues concerning their future policy, organizational issues and the format of their pre-election structure. The participants had different viewpoints and they could not come to a final agreement on the issues discussed, thus they decided to …

Yesterday after the Q/A session in the parliament the prime minister of Armenia answered to journalists’ questions and said that he thought the active political appearance of defense minister Serj Sargsyan is “very natural” since he is the head of the board of Armenian Republican party and added that “all the politicians are going to …

Yesterday “Rule of Law” faction member Hovhannes Margaryan said in the parliament during the questions and answers session that the “air tax” that is collected in the airport from passengers has not been transferred to the budget. The deputy assures that the mentioned sum covers 150 million dram ($400k). The minister of finance and economy, …

It is two days that Armenia does not have a hymn. The problem is the fact that according to the new Constitution of Republic of Armenia (Article 117, Point 2) that entered in force on December 5, 2005, after the Constitutions enters in force the national Assembly should adopt a hymn within one year. As …

“Those lands were taken for the purpose of creating a security zone round Republic of Karabakh and as well as for providing security for the Karabakhi people. We have pressed back all the fire points that could be dangerous for the cities and communities of the republic” said defense minister of Karabakh, general lieutenant Seiran …

Recently Yerevan periodically becomes a theme and topic of public rumors and conversations because of several reasons. First is what’s happening to our capital. After almost 40-year stability of architecture in Yerevan it has started it rapidly change. Secondly after the 40-year stability the structure of the city people is also being changed. All these …

As expected the “window of opportunities 2006” of Karabagh conflict resolution was closed and no agreement was made between the sides. Most probably 2007 won’t bring any fertile results either, In parallel with Karabagh conflict the issues of Javaghk is also gradually maturing for the society. Of course, if wanted here we can only see …