Politics

“Oligarch” means “enemy”in Karabagh

01.05.2006

According to Prime Minister of Karabagh Anushavan Danielyan, Karabagh’s GDP has gone up two-fold during the past four years. “If it goes at this rate, we will reach success in a couple of years,” said the prime minister. During the government session, the prime minister complained about the work done by the governmental departments and …

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He’s in Baku

01.05.2006

The American co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk group, Steven Mann is on two-day visit to Baku. According to the “Trend”, the American diplomat is going to negotiate with Azeri officials. The main topic for negotiations is going to be the Karabagh conflict resolution. Since Steven Mann is also elder advisor to the US Department of …

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He has applied to Armen Gevorgyan

01.05.2006

Yesterday Aram Karapetyan confirmed the rumors claiming that after his body guards had been attacked, head of the president’s body guards’ service, Armen Gevorgyan, called him to tell the story. “I had called him before that but he didn’t answer my call and later he called me back”, said Aram Karapetyan without going further in …

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Is it out in the open?

01.05.2006

During the parliamentary hearings at the Karabagh parliament, Foreign Affairs Minister of Karabakh, Georgi Petrosyan, said that the negotiations process was out in the open and “whatever is written in the press is accurate”.   As for head of the “88’ Movement” party co-chairman, MP Gegham Baghdasaryan, he said that the Karabagh authorities did the …

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Poor Vardan still survives

01.05.2006

“168 Hours” asked Minister of Ecology of Armenia Vartan Ayvazyan whether or not he would stay a member of his party (the Republican party) even if it didn’t get the adequate number of places in parliament during the upcoming elections, to which he responded: “Of course I will stay. What difference does it make? What …

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They have enough experience

01.05.2006

“Experience has taught the opposition that it needs to change its approach and strategy. There is only one way to come to power in this country: we should get prepared for the upcoming elections. There is no alternative. This is why we think that the coming elections are very important. We do our best to …

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I serve the president of my country

01.05.2006

It is already clear that the US Ambassador to Armenia, Mr. John Evans, will be called back to the US soon. A group of Armenian Diaspora representatives of the US are going to organize a demonstration called “Yellow ribbon” against this decision of the US Department of State because, as they say, this has to …

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Reminder

01.05.2006

Recently, we asked press-secretary of the president what the president thought about the announcement of representative of the coalition Arthur Baghdasaryan saying that “If the coming elections are violated like the elections of 2003, it may bring to serious changes. Neither the external nor the internal powers will agree with that”, to which he answered, …

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Armenian version of “payback”

01.05.2006

Yesterday at 12:55 not far from the Erebuni district police department of Yerevan 12 people attacked the two cars belonging to the head of “New Times” party, Aram Karapetyan. These people were armed with guns and rifles, only four of which didn’t have masks. The other eight people had covered their faces. This was what …

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Ombudsman’s frugal charm

01.05.2006

One of last week’s most important events was the Armenian ombudsman’s successful debut at the RA Constitutional Court (CC). Everything was on the ombudsman’s side: all what was shown on TV channels, including the scenes where the ombudsman was actively trying to protect citizens’ rights, as well as the thoughts and opinions expressed by the …

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