Politics

Robert Kocharyan has transferred his April salary (318.400 AMD) to the account opened up for the families of the victims in the plane crash. The other officers of the president’s office have done the same too. The total sum of transfers made up 12.599.000 AMD. The parliament is doing the same too. We were informed …

Yesterday RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan petitioned people not to talk about any scenarios concerning the plane crash yet. “Wrong scenarios may cause confusion among the relatives of the victims”, said the prime minister and advised to wait for the assumptions of experts. He also said that he thought the black boxes would be found …

“Rule of Law” political party leader and NA speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan, who is part of the coalition, but always uses the moment to criticize the coalition and doesn’t stay behind the opposition, got a payback yesterday. Yesterday businessmen Arshak Mkhitaryan and Melik Manukayn dropped their membership. We should confess that this was not a surprise …

Before the conference actually began, chief director of political issues of the European Council Zhan Loui Loran hosted a press conference. According to Loran, throughout the past five years of membership, the only achievements of Armenia have been the exemption of the death sentence and the constitutional amendments. He says that the European Council places …

It is a rule that nothing serious happens in Armenia. Even if something not that serious happens, it is either dictated from someone abroad or the person makes it happen by himself. This was the case with Arthur Baghdasaryan. During in interview with a German newspaper, Baghdasaryan said that he sees the future of Armenia …

Yesterday I happened to find one of the “Azg” newspaper’s 2002 editions. While I was drinking my morning coffee, I paged through the newspaper and took a look at the old article titles. The article on the last page of the edition told the story of how the Turkish government and some ministries were getting …

Once again, leader of the “New Times” political party Aram Karapetyan made some pro-Russian announcements last week. During the party meeting held on April 28th, the leader even said that he is and will always be in favor of having Armenia keep close ties with Russia. “I stay true to that no matter how much …

In our previous edition, “168 Hours” informed our readers that the former RA president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, was going to sue art critic Henrik Igityan, who had announced on “Kentron” TV that people started stealing from the country during the term of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and that his brother had sold almost half of the country. Yesterday …

In regard to Arthur Baghdasaryan’s announcement that the 2007 elections can’t be violated like the 2003 elections, Andranik Margaryan said, “I don’t think he meant the 2003 elections in general because the “Rule of Law” was one of the major parties that backed Kocharyan during the elections. As for the parliamentary elections, the “Rule of …

During the summer discussions of the EU, the EU commission on the Karabagh issue will hold discussions as well. According to the “Trend” news agency, head of the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to the EU Samed Seidov has said that the head of the commission and British diplomat Lord Rassell Johnston is working actively with that …