Politics

The ARF regional headquarters administer the university admission exams in the Shirak region of Armenia due to the facT that both the ministers of education and regional management are ARF members. Currently, they are appointing ARF representatives for the examination commissions and politically active people, such as dean of the Yerevan State University Geography department …

The G8 summit cannot oblige the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign a peace contract. This is what head of the international relations department of Political and Military Research institute, Sergey Marcedonov said to “panorama.net”. According to him, there isn’t any universal solution worked out so far, which may be accepted by both Azerbaijan …

On July 17, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that Russia can guarantee providing the fulfillment of the peace contract provisions and keeping the peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “The countries should make compromises and come to a final agreement. As for Russia and its partner countries, we are ready to guarantee the fulfillment of the …

On July 17, the president of Karabakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan visited Yerevan. During his visit the president of Karabakh plans to meet Armenian officials and representatives of civic groups. However, “168 Hours” couldn’t find out what issues would be discussed.

The parliament of the Brazilian Seara region has proposed a bill and the senator of the region, Luiziana Oliverna has approved. According to the bill, April 24 is considered as the Day of Armenians in the region dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. Seara is the second region of Brazil after San Paulo that has legally …

The Armenian Republican party has not made a final decision whether to approve the application of RA defense minister Serge Sargsyan to join the party or to reject it. We were told by the mentioned party that the issue would be discussed during a partial board meeting this week, after which they will announce their …

According to our sources, RA president Robert Kocharyan is currently on vacation in Armenia. His will only be away for a couple of days, after which he will leave for Moscow to take part in the non-official CIS summit. According to advisor to the president of Russia, Sergey Prikhodko, two issues will be discussed during …

Recently “Los Angeles Times” newspaper petitioned senators not to approve the candidacy of Richard Hoagland as the new US Ambassador to Armenia “until he feels brave enough to say the word “Genocide””. Last month the Congress postponed the date of the discussion because, as “Los Angeles Times” writes, “most of the senators asked the State …

According to “ITAR-TASS”, the G8 petitioned Armenia and Azerbaijan to have enough political will to reach a final agreement by the end of 2006. Based on the announcement made by the G8 president, during the G8 summit the Karabakh conflict and the current situation were discussed. “We have approved that the G8 group will help …

As the authors of the letter write, the letter is signed by 101 Azeri intellectuals and is addressed to the people of Armenia. Compared to the critical announcements and approach of Azerbaijan, this letter may be considered as “a peace initiative”. Even though the letter writes about the necessity of peace, it contains hidden threats, …