Politics

These days there are serious conflicts between the ARF and general prosecutor of Armenia, Aghvan Hovsepyan. Recently, Hrant Margaryan said the following in regard to the newly founded “Union for Armenia” party: “Countries, where general prosecutors are involved in politics and found parties are in very bad conditions”. We asked Armen Rustamyan whether they were …

On May 31, “Economical values” analyzing center organized an on-line visual conference with management scientist, professor of Harvard University, Michael Porter with the technical support of USAID and the framework of its “Competitive Private Sector in Armenia” project. Michael Porter has worked out a university course called “Competition Micro Economy”, which is taught in over …

The National Assembly has already validated the decisions made on electing the heads of the constant committees on defense, national security and internal affairs, as well as the committee on social, health and ecological issues. These positions had remained empty after the resignations of the Rule of Law MPs. This issue and the election of …

The Armenian Apostolic Church reacted rather operatively to the “Da Vinci Code” film and the performance of the Finnish “Lordi” rock group, which placed first at “EuroVision”. The church considered similar portrayals of art as anti-Christian. While watching the film commercials and hearing about the victory of the Finnish rock group, some non-divine events were …

Recently RA prime minister Andranik Margaryan and president’s advisor Garnik Isagulyan said that businesses always tend to be close to the government and it is very difficult for them to survive in the oppositional field. But head of the SIL concern, MP Khachatour Sukiasyan denied this and said, “I don’t know what Isagulyan and the …

Today, Tigran Torosyan will be elected as NA speaker and this was a political agreement. This means that the second and third high ranked officials will be represented by the same party, i.e. the Republican party. On the one hand, this means that the speaker’s and prime minister’s positions are given to one party, but …

On May 31, head of the Russian Armenians’ Union, Ara Abrahamyan, organized a press conference dedicated to the recent murders of Armenians committed by skinheads in Russia. Two Armenians were killed in Moscow in May. It is said that there were more murders, but this is confidential. Ara Abrahamyan said that this issue didn’t only …

Answering to the question as to why the newly appointed minister of culture, Hasmik Poghosyan, agreed to accept that position while he doesn’t have any reputation, she said, “The field is not new for me. I will rely on the principles of the political party that moved me up. I have always liked their approach …

The only MP that voted against this draft was the former director of “Grand Candy” JSC, Samvel Sahakyan. As for the other MPs that had certain interests in different business fields, they didn’t vote at all. The only ones among them to vote were Khachatour Sukiasyan and Gurgen Arsenyan, who voted for this draft. According …

While the skinheads killed one more Armenian in Russia and left the scene of the crime screaming “Russia!”, Aram karapetyan was organizing rallies in Armenia with the same slogan “Russia!”. Besides that he argued not to take the Russian military forces out of Javakhk by saying that they were the main security guarantee of Armenians …