Politics

Recently U.S. ex-president Jerald Ford was taken to a hospital in Minnesota. There isn’t any concrete information about the reasons. According to BBC, Ford is 93 years old and this is the fourth time he is in the hospital during the course of eight months.

“The meeting was quiet, constructive and effective”, said Robert Kocharyan after the summit of “AVRAZES” in Sochi . “I think there should be more non-formal meetings, where everything is very quiet. But we should organize such meetings in September because it is too hot now”, according to “ITAR-TASS” said Robert Kocharyan and Vladimir Putin said …

Recently the press secretary of the Azeri foreign affairs ministry said that their ministry wanted to come up with a recommendation, according to which the American, French and Russian co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group will be entitled to head the group for one year each. According to them, this issue was discussed during a …

Community head elections for the Nalbandyan community of Armavir region of Armenia took place on August 13 and according to head of 21/2 polling electoral commission, Albert Zakaryan, the elections were organized in an environment of fright and intimidation. There were incidents in the evening of Election Day. There were two candidates nominated for the …

In 1995 Viktor Dallakyan was backed by Vazgen Sargsyan and was elected in the parliament. Later, he became deputy to the head of the faction on state and legal issues thanks to the Armenian National Movement party. In order not to let the resignation of Levon Ter-Petrosyan seem like a military revolution, there was a …

– The international community has announced several times that 2006 will be the year for the Karabakh conflict settlement. The brief conclusion of the “Great Eight” summit stated that “there is a need to quickly agree with the principles of peacefully settling the Karabakh conflict in 2006”. Do you think it’s possible to see a …

Most people prefer spending their vacation on the coast. For former citizens of the Soviet republics, there is no substitute to the Black Sea. Whereas Armenians used to love vacationing at Sochi, now they prefer going to Kobuleti and the other seaside regions of Georgia. Middle-class Armenians like to spend their vacation at the Black …

“We are all waiting for Hoagland’s possible resignation and that would be the easiest solution to the current situation” said one of the Armenian diplomats, who requested to remain anonymous, at an official meeting at the Senate, when speaking about the uproar dealing with the new US Ambassador to Armenia. The staff of the RA …

When answering this question during his recent interview with the Foreign Service Journal, Morton Abramowitz, who was the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from 1989-1991, said that his first year as Ambassador to Turkey was consumed by one issue, the Armenian genocide resolution that Sen. Robert Dole introduced in April 1990. M. Abramowitz noted that the …

In recent months, the hottest issue in U.S.-Armenian relations has been the nomination of a new U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. The State Department had decided to recall Ambassador John Evans prematurely and proposed Richard Hoagland as his replacement. The U.S. Senate has postponed his confirmation to an indefinite date. According to several sources, Amb. Evans …