Politics

When speaking to our reporter the Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan found it “senseless” that Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan played a big role in his reappointment to the current post. Let’s mention that according to the rumors in the parliamentary circles, Aram Harutyunyan gave one million dollars to the then-minister of territorial administration …

During a conference on the topic of Professional Education and Teaching Prospects the German Ambassador Hans-Jochen Schmidt said, “Armenia does not have gas and oil, but has brains, and due to this is always praised.” Meanwhile the Ambassador said that Armenia’s problem is oligarchy. The Ambassador said that during different meetings he had addressed the …

NA MP and member of PA party Vartan Oskanyan has applied to the prosecutor general Aghvan Hovsepyan to complain about the legal proceedings instituted in connection with Civilitas foundation. Oskanyan’s authorized lawyer Tigran Atanesyan told radio Liberty that in the letter submitted to the prosecutor general they had asked to cancel the decision on instituting …

“If you were the head of the state what would you do about a prime minister who said that he could not do anything about emigration because if those critical masses stayed in Armenia, they would do a revolution?” asked ANC faction secretary Aram Manukyan during yesterday’s discussion of the government’s program 2012-2017 in the …

The extraordinary session of the National Assembly that kicked off yesterday was vital not as much for the discussion of the government program or the behavior of the opposition (the government doesn’t have a problem adopting it) but for seeing and understanding what thee second force of the National Assembly, the Prosperous Armenia, is going …

Yesterday the NA appeared in an almost emergency situation because the government program 2012-2017 was being discussed. The discussion was quite tense due to the strict criticism of the ANC, ARF, Heritage and PAP MPs. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and his cabinet members, especially the ones in charge of the financial block, would obediently listen …

Based on Saturday’s decree of the President, the new government held its first session and indeed ratified its 2012-2017 plan, which will tomorrow be submitted to the NA in the pathos of a few criticizing statements. Thus, we may say that, by doing this, the presidential campaign kicked off. And of course, this is not …

The political motives of the criminal case against the former foreign affairs minister and currently PAP MP Vardan Oskanyan are dual layer. And seemingly there is no doubt that those have a political pretext. It’s just interesting to know what the actual reason is. Here are opinions are divided into two groups. The first comments …

Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the Civilitas Foundation, was summoned on the June 15 morning to the National Security Service (NSS) but she refused to give testimony. She stayed there approximately one hour. Talking to Azatutyun.am, Salpi Ghazarian said that in a statement the NSS said that checkups had been conducted in the Foundation which had …

Yesterday the Republican Party of Armenia held a general meeting followed by a session of executive board, as a result of which a decision was made to make a new government. In fact this government can be considered new only to the timeline but not the content. Only 5 ministers will be replaced out of …