Politics

The “Azatutyun” (Freedom) radio channel has received information about former Prime Minister of Armenia Armen Sargsyan from the “Eurasia House International” organization. “Armen Sargsyan’s name is heard a lot in the current political field of Armenia and the mass media. It is worth mentioning once again that Armen Sargsyan has nothing to do with the …

Yesterday evening in the center of Yerevan on Pushkin street a criminal tried to kill former police head of Armenia, police general Aram Zakaryan. The incident happened in the garage of Mr. Zakaryan. The criminal shot twice, but Mr. Zakaryan could escape and got small body injury on his shoulder. According to our information, the …

Recently the parliament of Karabakh organized a session to discus the draft Constitution, during which the general prosecutor of Karabakh, Armen Zalinyan said, “By adopting a new Constitution the state starts its history from a new page, thus the existing president can be nominated during the coming elections again”. For your information, the latter meant …

Yesterday the brother of the RA general prosecutor applied for participating in the elections for Ajapnyak community head’s position. Besides the prosecutor’s brother, only three other candidates have registered their names to be nominated for the community head’s position. The mentioned three candidates are: Norayr Galstyan (member of “Soul Trial” organization, former deputy to the …

77 congressmen have sent a letter to President Bush asking him to recognize the 15th independence year of Karabakh and develop economic relations with Karabakh. According to “A1+”, the letter of the representation office of Karabakh in Washington writes that the people of Karabakh wish to build a democratic and economically stabile state. The representative …

Recently the OSCE co-chairmen gave an interview in Yerevan, where they said that the next meeting of the foreign affairs ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia would take place on October 6 in Moscow. According to the French co-chairman, Bernar Fasie, following the meeting in Moscow in one week the ministers will have one more meeting, …

If the RA parliament approves the convention on struggling against corruption made in New York in 2003, it is expected that Armenia will become free of unfair, corrupted and dishonest officials that have robbed the country and took bribery, thus Armenia will become a country with low level of corruption. Yesterday the deputies were asking …

Recently, leader of “New Times” party Aram Karapetyan had called on the authorities to name one criminal that they are against if they are “man” enough and he had named Armen Virabyan (“Schwartz”), while leader of the “Homeland and Honor” party Garnik Markaryan mentioned Hovik Abrahamyan as one of the criminals. To this, Prime Minister …

On October 4, Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Markaryan welcomed the American co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group of the Karabakh conflict settlement Matthew Braiza. Braiza said that he has worked with former U.S. Ambassador in Armenia many times and has done a lot by planning the projects aimed towards the strengthening of economy, security, …

According to French presses, the three-day official visit of French President Jacques Chirac was “dedicated to the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917”. “While in Yerevan, Jacques Chirac said things that Armenians, especially French Armenians, hoped to hear him say. During his joint-press conference with Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, Chirac set one principle: “France recognizes the Armenian …