Politics

The “Esquire” magazine recently took a survey from 1,000 men and based on the results, Condoleza Rice is more popular than famous American movie stars. In response to the question as to which of the 14 most famous women they would like to invite for dinner, all men said Condoleezza Rice. When Rice found out …

The Armenian chess team won the 37th world competition and recently visited Stepanakert. President of Karabagh, Arkadi Ghukasyan told the chess masters the following, “Taking into consideration the fact that that the second international chess competition was organized in Karabagh, we can say that all victories start from Stepanakert”. “If victories start from Stepanakert, I …

Recently, during the governmental session dedicated to the Armenian year in France, Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan said that he was going to leave for France in the fall to participate in the summit organized by speakers of the French Senate the Armenian National Assembly on October 17-18.

Recently RA Justice Minister David Harutyunyan said that he plans to get active in politics. In response to the question of “Azatutyun” radio station as to whether the resignation of his press secretary Ara Saghatelyan had to do with that, he said,” “We should have a team if we want to become a political party. …

On July 5, the Russian Duma adopted a law, according to which the Russian president, MPs and high ranked officials cannot have dual citizenship and those who obtain it will have to resign from their positions.

“The discussions of the US senate on appointing Richard Hoagland as Ambassador to Armenia were postponed due to the critical statements made by Armenians and mass media. The statements were made in regard to the decision to call back Ambassador John Evans” writes the “California Currier” newspaper. According to that source, last week the department …

Two days ago, the OSCE co-chairmen made their second joint announcement of this week. According to them, the purpose of the mentioned second announcement is to give details concerning the main principles of the Karabagh conflict negotiations. The mentioned announcement seems like the first one that the co-chairmen made on June 22 and contains information …

Ashot Bleyan and Armen Ashotyan didn’t have a good debate because they were too emotional and could not discuss issues the right way. The issue being discussed was very important for Armenia. Instead of insulting each other, they could have discussed issues better and stick to the truth. Armen Ashotyan is to blame partly because …

The commanders of the 2000 soldiers that participated in the Karabagh war are against giving any land to the Azerbaijani side as a compromise. “Whoever lays a finger on even the smallest part of our Homeland will be considered yet another Turk invader and suffer the consequences,” as stated in the July 5 statement made …

During an interview, vice-president of the Armenian National Movement administration Andranik Hovakimyan said that the international community is also to blame for the current labyrinth of the Karabagh conflict settlement. “The international community put the conflict into a labyrinth by avoiding the results of the 2003 elections and the 2005 constitutional amendments referendum. Now it’s …