Politics

Recently, mass media was very surprised to learn of the new parliamentary record: the parliament approved 31 draft laws in 20 minutes. The parliament just needed 39 seconds to approve each of these bills. Pro-government Mass Media was happy about this record and we understand this; in fact, they officially approved that the parliament as …

Based on the National Assembly’s regulatory law passed in 1995, it was clear as to what happens to an MP, who decides to leave the given National Assembly faction after being elected based on a list. According to that clause, the rat racers had to drop their mandates. However in 1997, that clause was taken …

Appointing ARF member Levon Mkrtchyan to Minister of Education and Sciences has caused a lot of commotion in Gyumri and the ARF Gyumri bureau is already working on making the lists of the commission members for the upcoming admission exams. It’s obvious that the Dashnaks (federalists) and their close friends will be part of those …

The ULP faction has agreed to accept several positions. Even though the ULP says that they are not part of the coalition, we think that the fact that they were given the positions of the RA labor and social deputy minister (Tamara Gevorgyan), deputy regional head of Shirak Marz (Ashot Petrosyan) and deputy regional head …

On the basis of Robert Kocharyan’s order, Minister of Culture Gevorg Gevorgyan was removed from office. Although he wasn’t a partisan, however this position was given to the Rule of Law. He hasn’t been suggested any other positions yet, but he was recently invited to the president’s office. “I think they will offer me something”, …

On May 20, during a partial meeting of the Republican Party in Armavir Marz, Andranik Margaryan said, “…It’s no secret that the pre-election campaign has supposedly started, accordingly both current and newly founded parties will try to be involved in social and political processes. Our party doesn’t think there is anything wrong about that and …

According to our information, RA president Robert Kocharyan will meet with Ilham Aliev in early June, after which he will pay an official visit to Iran. The president’s press secretary, Viktor Soghomonyan, confirmed this and said that there wasn’t any certain schedule for the meetings yet. It will be clear only after the visit of …

“Arthur Baghdasaryan’s announcement, saying that the country has developed during these last three years and that he had no disagreements with Kocharyan on the Karabagh conflict resolution, is enough for me to assume that Baghdasaryan is not oppositionist at this moment”, said Suren Surenyants, member of the political board of “Republic” party. He also said …

Leader of Rule of Law Arthur Baghdasaryan recently announced that, based on a recent survey, over 70% of our population is scared. “There are some people who are afraid of their mother-in-laws or wives, we shouldn’t accept it as a dogma”, said ARF representative Vahan Hovhannisyan in regard to the Baghdasaryan’s announcement. But since Arthur …

Head of the “Yerkir Media” TV channel, Gegham Manukyan is a lucky person because the ARF decided to make him a National Assembly deputy. After head of the ARF faction, Levon Mkrtchyan was appointed minister of education, member of that faction Hrayr Karapetyan became head of the faction. As for this parliamentary mandate, it will …