Politics

President of the “Lex” bar association, member of the barrister group of the Armenian Association of Russia Simon Tsaturyan hosted a press conference last week before his departure to remind journalists that in any case, there are people “taking care” of Armenians in Russia. As proof of that, he showed the thank-you notes that the …

Yesterday RA National Assembly approved the budget for 2007 (77 votes for, 3 votes against and 6 abstained). The income part of the budget sums 490.2 billion dram, and the expenses part – 558.7 billion dram. In consideration of the USD exchange rate considered in the budget (357 AMD for one USD) the budget exceeds …

Following the meeting of Minsk the president of Azerbaijan gave an interview, where he said that the process of negotiations had reached the final phase. “There have been many phases in the process of negotiations, and I can say that we have reached the final phase already” said Aliev. According to the Azeri president, the …

Member of “Independent Fatherland” political party (Karabakh) Gagik Petrosyan assures that organizing fair and democratic elections in Armenia is very important for Karabakh. “Karabakh wants Armenia have strong and powerful authorities, which may be supported by the Armenian society” he said. The latter thinks that the opposition is “confused” as the authorities “are acting clearly …

Yesterday the Armenian government presented a draft law “on operative investigation activities” to the parliament. One of the most importants part of the draft is the provision on listening to conversations. This provision concerns two cases, one of which concerns crimes that are subject to imprisonment for over five years and there are no other …

Politicians and analysts predict that hardly the existing governmental and oppositional political powers may establish pre-election alliances and develop collaboration before the upcoming elections. This prediction concerns mainly those oppositional powers, which have been established in the recent times (such as the “anti-criminal”, “civic disobedience” and “civic initiative” movements). By joining political powers that have …

While the international community and the press are trying to guess what the Russian and the US Presidents agreed upon at the short meeting at the Russian airport or maybe the price of Russia’s entrance into the WTO is letting Iran without Russian support, the Russian media are stating that Russia has started to provide …

“I am sure that all what is written in those letters is true. Those letters have been sent to Russia” said the NT leader, Aram Karapetyan, concerning the article published in our previous publication that read about some letters sent to Russia and added that he had read some of those letters as well. The …

A few days ago one of the organizations held social polls, according to which Prosperous Armenia Party has the highest rating among others (22%). The rating of all the other parties doesn’t exceed 5%. The elections are on the way, thus the number of such researches will be increased. The results will also be different …

“It’s temporary,” said A. Harutyunyan, mentioning that from September 2007, foreign soap operas will make way for other programs and soap operas produced in Armenia. As Armenians say, we run from the rain and find ourselves under the hail. Justifying the broadcasting of Armenian soap operas on Public Television, A. Harutyunyan mentioned that Russian TV …