Politics

The recent publications in WikiLeaks concerning Armenia are unprecedented both with the capacity and content. These publications concern both the past and incumbent authorities, thus they will have a significant effect on political processes and the internal political life, especially during the upcoming elections. There is an interesting and meanwhile sad component in those publications. …

Wikileaks has published a cable sent from the US Embassy in Armenia to the State Department on December 23, 2008. This letter writes that the head of the president’s administration Hovik Abrahamyan had won pre-term elections in his precinct and left from the president’s administration. According to many people, it is the first step on …

Another discovered cable on part of Wikileaks concerns the meeting between the US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovich and former president Robert Kocharyan on May 8. The Ambassador met with the former president to find out his opinion concerning the relations between Armenia and Turkey and upcoming mayoral election. When the Ambassador asked a question …

Wikileaks has published a cable, which concerns the meeting of the US Ambassador Yovanovich and former president Kocharyan. The published cable discovers that Kocharyan has expressed concerns about the Millennium Challenges project and said the following: “this was the biggest bluff.” He also said that in the preliminary phase there were a lot of discussions …

On August 22, 2007, American diplomats, lead by US charge d’affairs Perina, visited Levon Ter-Petrosyan. For your information, at that time the media disseminated information about possible nomination of Armenia’s first president in the presidential election, but the first president had not made any official announcement about that. On August 24, Perina sent a cable …

A cable published by Wikileaks contains the letter of former US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovich, which was sent to the States on November 7, 2008, and contains the first president’s and his ANC’s movement activities. The tile of the cable was the following: LTP URGES U.S. TO TAKE INITIATIVE ON NK CONFLICT . Below …

On October 16 former US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovich sent a cable to the Department of State, in which he tells about an interesting meeting with ANC representative Davit Shahnazaryan. This cable has been published in the web site of Wikileaks. This meeting took place three days before Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally on October 17. …

– Do you think that the cancellation of the dialogue on part of the ANC is connected with the arrest of Tigran Arakelyan? Is it a worthy reason to give up on discussions concerning by-elections? – The ANC is solving a very important problem by hitting the same button during the past several years. Ultimately …

Nowadays one of the main topics discussed in the framework of pro-government circles is the rehabilitation of NDU. It has been a long time since the leaders of previously broken down fragments of National Democratic Union, the NDU executive Vazgen Manukyan, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, leader of National Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharyan, leader of NDA …

It appears that suggestion for amnesty of political prisoners has long been raised on December 2008 by the American diplomats. However, the suggestion was not approved by the RA President Serzh Sargsyan. The decipher message is coming to be known from “Wikileaks.” Thus on December 16, 2008 the USA Ambassador to Armenia Marie Jovanovitch has …