Politics

1. Recently, two events shook citizens living in a politically unaware Yerevan: a. The announcement made by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen (July 3, 2006) b. The announcement made by director of the “Crisis Group” Caucasian project Sabina Freizer (July 7, 2006). It’s obvious that the announcements had to do with the Karabakh conflict. They’re …

“Our society doesn’t accept the proposals made by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen. In fact, if you’ve noticed, those proposals aren’t accepted by Azerbaijan either,” said independent journalist and sociologist David Gharabekyan from Karabakh. Gharabekyan has come to that conclusion based on the speeches and public discussions of social figures in Karabagh. However, D. Gharabekyan …

Head of the Georgian Automobile federation, Shalva Obgaidze, accuses Armenia of importing stolen cars from Georgia and says that those cars are legalized by a famous court judge. “The judge knows very well where those cars are brought from, but he’s still bringing them in”, said Obgaidze. On July 10, head of the RA criminal …

President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev has denied rumors claiming that the Armenian and Azeri presidents are going to meet in Saint Petersburg within the framework of the “Great Eight” summit. “We haven’t planned such a meeting. We have met twice during these several months and those meetings weren’t really productive”, announced Aliev in his interview …

On July 10, Azeri journalist, correspondent of “Bakinski Vedomosti” newspaper said in Yerevan, ““If we’re not getting ready for war, then let’s talk. Let’s talk about the people with high reputations in society and the ones that are not held accountable to Moscow, Paris or Washington”. Another Azeri journalist, Semur Barjan added, “There is no …

“168 Hours” correspondent found out from specialist from the “Caucasus” analyzing center, Manvel Sargsyan, that there are “some powers that want to start a new war”. “There are some powers, which are either trying to start a new war or are trying to use that to talk about their interests. This may be connected with …

The brand name “Great Valley” brandy company belonging to MP Tigran Arzakantsyan, located on Abovyan street, has been closed for the past couple of days. Recently, all their products were taken out of the shop. We were informed from “Great Valley” that the reason for closing their shop was the fact that they were going …

We called the Sevan branch of “Union for Armenia” party to ask for information about their activities. A person named Garik answered the phone and said that there wasn’t anyone besides him in the office at that moment. As Garik said, everyone had left the office because they no longer believed that they would find …

During his speech at the “European Integration as an auxiliary for the Karabakh conflict settlement” international seminar organized by the “Caucasian Center for Peacemaking Initiatives”, A. Aliev said that the reason that the sides haven’t reached an agreement until now is the lack of trust. He adds that the more the Karabakh conflict remains unsettled, …

According to “Azatutyun” radio station, the “Young Eight” summit has started in Pushkin city located in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg. Schoolchildren from the greatest countries of the world between the ages of 13 and 17 will take part in the summit. The American team consists of children of different nationalities from the schools of …