Politics

The Prime-Minister of Georgia Nurab Noghaideli announced that the project of the Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku railroad will start in spring 2007. He also mentioned that working groups will be formed headed by the Transport Minister of Azerbaijan and the Minster of Economic Development of Georgia in order to quicken the process of preparing necessary documents. According to …

Based on the general National Strategy all the ministries of RA have presented their own viewpoints and charts about the Strategy. If supposedly the National Security Strategy is an open document then the documents presented by ministries may be somewhat “closed” ones and are not subject of publication. This information was provided by the National …

Armen and Gurgen Virabyans are condemned for the murder. Colonel Armen Virabyan, 39, used to work under the supervision of Shahen Hovasapyan. He was the head of the seventh department. Gurgen Virabyan, 37, is a businessman, used to manage the “Semur & Co” company, which belonged to him. According to the investigators the motive of …

According to Azerbaijani mass media, the authors of the announcement dispersed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan about the Constitution referendum of Nagorno Karabakh to take place, emphasize that “the approval of any constitutional document about the autonomy of the people of the region of Nagorno Karabakh can only be possible in the …

This is how journalists were trying to find out from leader of the “New Times” party from whom he would agree to take a bribe for his pre-election campaign during a press conference. The thing is that A. Karapetyan didn’t hide the fact that he wouldn’t mind if he had some income from the side …

Yesterday Viktor Dallakyan was trying to find an opportunity reject his announcement concerning military uniforms and those wearing them in the presence of Serj Sargsyan in the parliament during the discussions of the state program on national security. Mr. Dallakyan was confused and was trying to explain that the mentioned announcement concerning military uniforms and …

Yesterday during the discussions on the state security program Serj Sargsyan disputed Shavarsh Kocharyan’s surname twice and instead of his surname he said Shavarsh Karapetyan. At least Shavarsh Kocharyan rose from his place and asked, “Mr. Sargsyan, who don’t you like my surname?” “I am sorry, dear Shavarsh”, said Mr. Sargsyan and promised that he …

The national statistics department has published a statement concerning inflation tendency as of November, 2006. Compared to October the prices have grown by 1% in November. The mentioned department has registered a higher inflation monthly mark only once, which was in January (2.5%). The mentioned inflation mark is higher by 3.5% compared to December month …

“I didn’t take part in the meeting, but the Armenian and Azeri presidents and foreign affairs ministers say that the meeting was effective” yesterday said Serj Sargsyan concerning the recent meeting of Kocharyan and Aliev and added that the fact that the meeting was considered to be effective did not mean yet that the problem …

Yesterday said ANM member, RA former foreign affairs minister Alexander Arzumanyan. “The Minsk Group format and the other format that was agreed in Budapest have not been applied” he said. Mr. Arzumanyan thinks that the only thing that has happened during these eight years is the fact that the intermediates have discussed the issues and …