Politics

Currently, the Armenian political system is based solely on the wish and “hints” of the president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan. At the same time, these “hints” are not always kept confidential. During his eight year term he has made several such “hints” (in social countries these hints are called directives, in socially-orientated parties they are …

In general, most of the parties have the same plans. There are many cases when the parties’ plans differ from the others based on formation. Sometimes, parties even copy from one another. The thing is that in most cases, founding a party is similar to opening a store-someone who wants to make it in the …

I don’t think there is any doubt that the Karabagh conflict won’t be resolved before the 2008 Armenian presidential elections. Armenians and Azerbaijani don’t doubt it, but perhaps the OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen do a little. However, nobody really pays attention to their doubts. They can doubt all they want and try to find new …

1.  From a social society to national independence 1988 was a turning year for Armenians. For the first time in the past 15 years (starting from 1973), Armenians felt sorry for the leaders of the republic as they faced hardships and went against their thoughts and feelings. Armenians are emotional and that’s going to make …

Back when people were against including the dual citizenship clause in the Armenian constitution, Galust Sahakyan used to assure the people that it would be just be symbolic. But this is not the case. Recently, there were discussions dedicated to the dual citizenship issue, during which the government presented its bill. According to that, Armenians …

In 2005, after the Constitutional referendum and adoption of the new Constitution, the constitutional clause prohibiting dual citizenship was taken out. The rights and responsibilities concerning dual citizenship are to be regulated by law. These days there are discussions concerning these clauses and possible recommendations. The people participating in these discussions are mainly concerned about …

On June 16, President Robert Kocharyan met with coalition representatives in his office. According to the president’s press-secretary, Viktor Soghomonyan, this meeting was a work meeting, where they discussed issues concerning the past session and the coming one. What’s interesting is that the coalition representatives that met with the president don’t mention anything. For example, …

Oppositionist Artashes Geghamyan made several announcements a couple of days ago and, according to analyzers, that proves the fact that he is not a real oppositionist but rather the authorities’ mine installed in the opposition. Geghamyan spoke about the results of independent surveys conducted by an American organization. Based on the surveys, 67-70% of Armenian …

According to Tigran Karapetyan, former minister of education and member of Rule of Law Sergo Yeritsyan “is an undercover agent”. “If he wasn’t an undercover agent they wouldn’t appoint him as advisor to the president on educational issues. He has been their undercover agent in that party since its foundation; he was like a mine …

“The Russian police must act fast, clearly and strictly in regard to the recent murders”, yesterday said RA president Robert Kocharyan during his meeting with Russian president’s representative Dmitri Kozak concerning the recent murders of Armenians in Moscow. They condemned the crimes committed by nationalistic groups and stated that those cases were out of the …