Politics

There is a new term in the political field recently: “political criminals”. Nowadays, both pro-government and oppositionist parties are speaking about the fact that the political field is criminalized. Furthermore, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly they point fingers at the Armenian Republican party. RA prime minister, head of the ARP, Andranik Margaryan answered to questions …

Since last Monday MPs are trying to adopt a new law that regulates their work, which is called “parliamentary by-laws”, but they fail to adopt it all the time. Everyone pretends that they can’t work in a duly manner since the law does not define how they should come to the parliament, how they should …

Recently, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez stopped the election of candidate Richard Hoagland for the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. In the U.S., Senators have the right to stop the voting of sessions, which is exactly what Senator Menendez did by protesting the U.S. Armenian Genocide policy. It’s worth mentioning that last week, the U.S. Senate foreign …

The foreign affairs minister of Karabakh, Georgi Petrosyan, says that generally the UN statement on cases of fire in the territories under the possession of Karabakh are acceptable and notes that it is a logical continuation of the efforts of Karabakh to solve the problem. “Furthermore, we may say that it is the continuation of …

The parliament has managed to adopt the agenda of the eighth parliamentary session in 1.5 hours after the beginning. After intensive discussions MPs started the session for the purpose of providing quorum, and those who usually visit the parliament on specific days only greeted each other and left the hall just after they had voted. …

Recently representative of “Justice” faction Aram G. Sargsyan recommended calling the heads of power structures to the parliament and discuss the recent cases of murders in Armenia. NA speaker Tigran Torosyan said that he agreed with Mr. Sargsyan and recommended organizing such a discussion in several days. We think that currently this issue is the …

Armenian foreign affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan has left for Paris for the purpose of taking part in a meeting with the OSCE co-chairmen. According to the press secretary of the ministry, Vladimir Karapetyan, the hour has not been scheduled yet. The Azeri minister of foreign affairs, Elmar Mamediarov is going to meet with the OSCE …

Recently RA ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan applied to the Constitutional Court and asked to solve the problem corresponding the RA law on political parties, Article 31, Section 2, Clause 2,3 with the provisions of the RA Constitution, Article 2 and Article 43, Clause 1. The issue that is going to be considered by the court concerns …

On September 7 the UN Assembly adopted the formula presented by Azerbaijan called “The situation in the seized territories of Azerbaijan” without voting, which concerns the cases of fire in the surrounding territories of Karabakh. According to the Armenian foreign affairs ministry, “generally the document has become acceptable for Armenia”. International mass media has discussed …

According to “ITAO-TASS”, based on the results of a recent survey taken by the Russian survey center, 45% of Russians believe that it’s important to spread the word about tolerance in schools and mass media, solve social issues and set limits on the flow of migration in order to suppress the ethnic conflicts going on …