Politics

Waiting for reply

19.05.2006

“The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group are expecting to get a reply from Yerevan and Baku in Strasburg regarding the recommendations presented during the last visit of the French co-chairman of the group, Bernar Fasie”, said the Russian co-chairman of the Minsk group Youri Merzlyakov to “Trend” news agency. According to him, during this …

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Kocharyan doesn’t visit the Erablur

19.05.2006

On May 9, Robert Kocharyan visited the Victory Park and put flowers on the WWII soldier monument. It is very nice to see that the president visited the park and put flowers, but on May 8, on the day of the victory in Shush, he didn’t visit the Erablur and didn’t put flowers on the …

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Gasparyan is leaving for France

19.05.2006

Press secretary of the RA foreign affairs ministry Hamlet Gasparyan has been appointed as RA Ambassador to France. As we were informed from the ministry of foreign affairs, Mr. Gasparyan’s duties will be carried out by the head of the public and information affairs department of the ministry Vladimir Karapetyan.

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Democratic Party is also getting ready

19.05.2006

The idea of organizing such a conference has been discussed with the head of the Russian Armenians’ Union, Ara Abrahamyan, and the conference will be held by Ara Abrahamyan and the national center of political dialogues. This was announced yesterday by head of the Democratic Party, MP Aram Sargsyan, who is also head of the …

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Everyone has left the party, besides Arthur Baghdasaryan

19.05.2006

MP Melik Manukyan, Arshak Mkhitaryan, Alexan Petrosyan, Grigor Margaryan have already presented written applications to drop their memberships. Yesterday Sayad Zakharyan, brother of the mayor of Yerevan Ervand Zakharyan, joined them too. That’s not all. According to our information, Samvel Shahgaldyan, Esward Gabrielyan, Khachik Petrosyan and Arkadi Hambardzumyan are also going to leave the party. …

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Windows that we look through

19.05.2006

We have two celebrations on May 9: the WWII victory day and the Shushi victory day. This celebration is different in Russia. Of course, they state slogans about the victory of the Soviet brother nations (there are also at least one Armenian, Georgian or Uzbek actors in their films), but these are just slogans, just …

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Armenia didn’t get elected

19.05.2006

The UN Human Rights council elections took place on May 9 in New York. According to head of the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Valeri Mkrtumyan, Armenia had also put up its candidacy to get elected in the council. The biggest struggle was in the Eastern European group where …

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Arthur Baghdasaryan will turn into a mummy in politics

19.05.2006

– What do you think about the decision of Rule of Law MPs to leave the party? – Arthur Baghdasaryan is not surrounded by people who want to become part of the opposition, because they don’t want to take that difficult path. This was the same reason why they joined him in the first place. …

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Parakar- specialist’s version

19.05.2006

Recently “New Times” party made an announcement saying, “Our facts prove that neither the version saying that the reason of the Armenian plane crash was weather conditions or the air navigation service, nor the versions saying that some passengers drank in the VIP hall of the airport and then fought in the aircraft, are right …

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Undermined parade

19.05.2006

Let’s try to find out what the purpose of organizing parades is. The main purpose of organizing parades is to demonstrate the power of the country to all potential enemies. In this case this power was demonstrated to “Rule of Law” party. On April 13, during the parliamentary voting of the 2001-2003 governmental privatizations program, …

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