Politics

During an interview, leader of the Armenian Republican Party National Assembly faction Galust Sahakyan said that in his opinion, the MP that leaves the faction after being elected from the proportional list must drop his mandate. According to him, there is a need to pass a law on that. “I am in favor of that, …

After the massive “rat race” of MPs leaving this or that National Assembly faction, parliamentarians are starting to express their opinions. They believe that it would be moral for the MPs, who have been elected based on a proportional list and leave the faction, to drop their mandates. They’re starting to remember the law passed …

Stepan Demirchyan has another philosophy besides his slogans about acting according to the Constitution. During his conversation with journalists Mr. Demirchyan answered to all questions with the following sentences: “Time will show everything”. According to Mr. Demirchyan, his party is not surprised about the intention of Rule of Law to join the opposition. “Time will …

The National Unity and the new oppositional Rule of Law parties have declared a temporary ceasefire. During a parliamentary briefing, Artashes Geghamyan announced that his party is no longer going to respond to any accusations on the part of Rule of Law. Rule of Law member Gagik Mkheyan said the same for Rule of Law. …

The Armenian government held a session recently headed by Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Markaryan, who just returned from Dushambe. He was taking part in the CIS member countries’ government leaders’ session. The Armenian government’s session was rather effective. We’ll try and present to the reader the interesting resolutions. First, the government assigned the Minister …

“Arthur Baghdasaryan is hinting that if the authorities have a problem with making A. Geghamyan stay silent, he can and is ready to do that himself. On the other hand, Geghamyan hints them that if they have a problem with destroying A. Baghdasaryan politically, he can do that. This all complies with the interests of …

U.S. president George Bush has recommended Richard Hoagland to be appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. After the Senate’s approval of Hoagland’s candidacy, he will come to Armenia most definitely in August. Hoagland is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan. According to “Azatutyun” radio station, Hoagland is a specialist of Caucasus and Central Asia and …

No matter what Rule of Law members say and how much they try to make everyone sure that A. Baghdasaryan is not dependent on his position, he’s still not taking it easy. Besides that, he doesn’t want to leave his room in the parliament building. Recently, he spends most his time at the parliament. In …

According to “Azatutyun” radio station, sources say that Armenian president Robert Kocharyan is going to take part in the Black sea regional cooperation and Dialogue congress in Bucharest on May 5. At the same time, the Azeri Mass Media informed us that the Azeri president was going to take part in it too. It is …

The authorities have finally found someone who wants to take Tigran Torosyan’s position after he is given the speaker’s position. We at “168 Hours” believe that this time the initiative was taken by the United Labor Party once again. According to our sources, the position of NA vice-speaker will be given to ULP vice-president Grigor …