Politics

On July 7, RA president Robert Kocharyan and his wife, Bella Kocharyan visited the US Embassy in Yerevan to congratulate Ambassador John Evans on U.S. independence day. July 4th is celebrated as Independence Day in the U.S. and on that day the Armenian president was in Iran.

Recently, Russian president Vladimir Putin answered to online questions, during which he said that the Russian government would continue investigating nationalistic crimes actively. “Racism and extremism are very dangerous and create confusion in countries, especially in multi-ethnic and multi-religious countries such as Russia. All extremist acts will be investigated”, assured Putin. During this online Q&A, …

“Recently, representative of OSCE chairman Anjey Kasprchik visited the regions close to the Armenian border and saw that there hadn’t been any fire on the part of Armenia. Armenia can’t burn its own grain fields. Those fires are caused by the shootings of Azeri soldiers five kilometers away from the border”, announced minister of defense …

On the basis of the RA general prosecutor’s order, a commission was founded on investigating the reasons why teenagers in Lori and Shirak regions of Armenia commit suicide. The number of suicide attempts is rather high in both regions.

According to “Forbes”, the research center of Youri Levada recently conducted a survey to find out whom Russians consider as their allies and which nations they don’t like. 47% considered Belarus as their partner, 33% – Kazakhstan, 24% – China, 22% – Germany, 10% – Ukraine. Armenia is not included in the list of Russians’ …

The murder that took place in the Malatya community of Yerevan on June 22 still hasn’t been revealed. On that day, there were shootings in Malatya-Sebastia community of Yerevan, during which son of former local government head of that community and one woman were killed. The only information about this crime is that the police …

Last year, the IAG published reports recommending its own version of the conflict settlement. It is worth mentioning that the mentioned report was the first document to talk about ideas about possibilities of organizing a referendum in Karabagh in the future. The recommendations proposed by the IAG were criticized in Armenia; they were considered partisan …

Former member of the “Republic” party turned deputy head of the Youth party Vahan Babayan talked about “Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armenian Armed Forces Robert Kocharyan” with compassion. “168 Hours” asked Babayan if he was still of the opinion that Kocharyan isn’t legitimate. “Today’s discussion isn’t about the president. It’s about the fact that we …

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen’s relevance of the Karabagh conflict settlement principles was not only a threat to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, but it was also aimed towards finding out the opinion of both societies. Armenian society isn’t really discussing this issue for the time being. The only one who actually made a …

July 5th marked the 11th anniversary of the Armenian Constitution. However, this wasn’t a celebration for many people and was simply yet another day off from work. It is not a celebration for us because many people, including the Government, have not realized how important it is to obey the laws stated in the Constitution. …