Politics

US Congressmen are against opening the Kars-Akhalkalak railway and they didn’t vote for a legal bill allowing the “Export-Import” governmental fund to provide financial aid for the Kars-Tbilisi-Akhalkalak railway construction. It is worth mentioning that the railway doesn’t cross Armenia. “Our approach will support stability and peace in the Caucasus, the efforts to settle conflicts …

When political party leaders announce that “they have a certain quantity of people and votes”, they clearly show how they look at the people, i.e. they show that people are just “votes” for them and nothing more. The fact that the intellectuality thinks like that is even worse. Some intellectuals, such as artists, join political …

Ruben Hovhannisyan, the brother of the Nubarashen community head, was arrested due to the crime connected with correspondent of “Fourth Authority” newspaper, Gagik Shamshyan. The police have not arrested other people connected with that case yet. Hovhannisyan attacked journalist Gagik Shamshyan, beat him and stole his mobile phone. The police department of Erebuni and Nubarashen …

According to our sources, secretary of “Justice” alliance Viktor Dallakyan is going to leave the alliance soon. The reason is the fact that he has made a final decision to join “Prosperous Armenia” party. Furthermore, according to “Azatutyun” radio station, “Prosperous Armenia” members are sure that Gagik Tsarukyan and Viktor Dallakyan have already come to …

The mentioned announcement also states that while organizing those auctions, documents were falsified and the state had financial losses. “The RA president’s control department has found out that the sums that citizens paid for using lands either didn’t reach the budget or reached partially. The documents presented to the state cadastre bodies were falsified”, as …

On July 24, during a meeting with the activists of the “Prosperous Armenia” party, new names of activists came up, including member of Yerevan Medical University board Vilen Hakobyan and rector of Yerevan Arts academy, Aram Isabekyan. The latter said in his speech that “he could provide thousands of votes and those people would join …

“Armenians in Karabakh have a right to determine their future”, said Caroline Cox. According to her, Azerbaijan was an activist in the region when it implemented ethnic-cleansing in Karabakh. “I can’t advise what to do. People should make a decision themselves and they should know what is more important for them. I advocate anything that …

As we know, Armenia has normal relations with two of its four neighbors (Georgia and Iran). In fact, the political situation with Georgia and Iran is getting worse. Iran may soon face international sanctions, which will affect Armenia as well. As for Georgia, the situation is worse there. The Georgian government has army forces in Kodor …

It seems as though Republican MP Armen Ashotyan has once again found himself in the middle of an inter-political conflict and this time the reason is not his opinions about the “Prosperous Armenia” party. Before the Republican party convention, Ashotyan said that he compared the “Prosperous Armenia” party to the posters reading “coming soon” posted …

On July 26, the U.S. Justice Department gave some interesting information about U.S. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Armenia John Evans, in particular the recording of the U.S. State Department-Turkey negotiations regarding calling back the U.S. Ambassador before the end of his term. According to the Armenian National Committee of America, the U.S. State Department …