Politics

We asked the head of the Republican parliamentary faction, Galust Sahakyan, whether anyone of the violators would be punished on the basis of the decision of the Constitutional court for making people leave their apartments on Buzand street by violating the law and the Constitution, to which he answered, “No, there is no need to …

On April 28 “New Times” party (NT) will organize a rally called “Rally against illegal intimidation by police in the political life of the country” not far from the Matenadaran. Later after the mentioned rally they are going to walk down to the buildings of the RA police and National Security Service (NSS) boards. The …

As a result of this it turned out that the governmental department of state property management has sold 206 state-owned companies and buildings. According to the #92 governmental resolution, as of 1994, state-owned properties can be sold only through organizing fair auctions. But most of the state-owned companies and buildings were sold directly without organizing …

It seemed no one had forgotten about the decision of the RA Constitutional Court concerning the presidential elections of 2003, where the Constitutional Court made a decision to organize a referendum of confidence, which didn’t take place later. But later it turned out that these were all just assumptions. Of course many people didn’t understand …

Recently there was a very interesting TV debate with the NDU head, Vazgen Manukyan, and the head of the ARF parliamentary faction, Levon Mkrtchyan. During the TV debate Vazgen Manukyan was insisting that the Constitutional referendum was violated and there were ballot stuffings and fraud, as for Levon Mkrtchyan, he was not denying that fact …

On April 11-21 there were military trainings in Karabakh headed by the Karabakh army head, general-lieutenant Seiran Ohanyan. The RA defense minister, security secretary Serj Sargsyan and the head of the RA army forces central board, Michael Harutyunyan were also present during the trainings. The president of Karabakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan said that the army had …

With help from President Robert Kocharyan, Garnik Isagulyan has managed to form a state institute of political research, which is going to be attaché to the president and will receive governmental funding. G. Isagulyan is the head of the institute council, while someone by the name of Hovik Asryan has been appointed director. What’s interesting …

According to publisher of the “California Courier” newspaper Harut Sasunyan, it is expected to not only call back U.S. Ambassador in Armenia, but also remove him from the political field for recognizing the Armenian Genocide. “According to my sources, which are pretty accurate, they are not only changing his position, but also removing him from …

“Turkey has enough power to have an influence on the U.S. in recognizing the Armenian Genocide. That’s something that the U.S. must worry about,” said organizational group member of the “Yellow Ribbon” march Raffi Dudaklyan during a press conference yesterday. “168 Hours” is letting its readers know that the people taking this initiative are American …

“Today, both the opposition and the authorities have sectors of political figures, who don’t want to change the situation of the country, but rather they want to change their situation so that they can get power,” says leader of the “New Times” political party Aram Karapetyan. According to him, some oppositional political parties are currently …