Politics

Currently, state taxation and customs bodies officers are free to join political parties. According to the law, state taxation and customs bodies officers are not entitled to join or found political parties. However, why put limits on their rights to take part in Armenian politics? The RA government has made a proposal to the parliament …

The presidents of CIS countries are going to have two more meetings by the end of this year. The Russian Ambassador to Belarus, Alezandr Surikov has said that there will be a CIS summit in Minsk, on November 28. As for the next summit, the CIS leaders will meet in Astana, Kazakhstan, to celebrate the …

It is very surprising that Raffi Hovhannisyan and Vazgen Manoukyan were allowed to organize a civic meeting in November in a place, where oppositionists are usually not allowed to set foot in, i.e. in the governmental reception hall. The last time when some oppositionists were allowed to appear here was in 2000, when the government …

The official visit of president Kocharyan to Moscow was expected to last two days. However, two days were not enough for the president to solve problems and discuss issues in Moscow. Nevertheless, according to our information, in the same period the president of Azerbaijan had a private visit to Moscow as well and stayed at …

On November 3, NKR President Arkadi Ghukasyan signed a decree on “appointing a day for the Constitutional Draft Referendum of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh”. Based on the decree, December 10 was fixed as the day of the referendum. It was not an unexpected decision because there were rumors that the referendum would take place …

It turns out that all the countries that have a positive foreign trade balance have domestic production. Anyway, this is what the RA minister of finances and economy said. “I don’t think that Armenia may ever have a positive balance of foreign trade” said Vardan Khachatryan during the discussions of the 2007 budget. Why can’t …

The Russian-Armenian relations are not military cooperation, but the relations are more like accountability to Russia on the part of Armenia. It is the fault of the current authorities, which have sacrificed the independence of our state to develop their own interests. This is what member of the “Justice” alliance, leader of ADP, Aram G. …

The National Assembly began the discussions of the 2007 State Budget and signed a document, which Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan called a “wonderful document”. The journalists weren’t able to ask questions to Margaryan about the “wonderful document”. Instead, RA Minister of Economy and Finances (MoEF), Vardan Khachatryan had the privilege of doing that. He presented …

A noteworthy opinion was expressed after the community head elections in the Ajapnyak community of Yerevan: there was only 25% voters’ turnout, because during the previous elections people have already gotten used to election bribes and didn’t wish to participate in elections without bribes. In fact, it’s true. If the people have previously been paid …

Perhaps it’s not a secret that during elections many of the opposition representatives in election commissions are “bribed” and therefore don’t pay much attention to the electoral violations. The oppositionists themselves speak about this. The Chairman of the Democratic Party of Armenia (DPA), Deputy of the NA “Justice” faction, Aram G. Sargsyan also agrees with …