Politics

Armenian Americans living in Armenia are planning on organizing a demonstration on April 24 called “Yellow ribbon” near the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide monument. The purpose is to show our partner countries that they shouldn’t keep silent and deny the fact that there was an Armenian Genocide. Recently, during a meeting with the Armenian Diaspora representatives in …

RA former minister of National Security Service, Carlos Petrosyan, currently works as an advisor to the Russian “TransOil” company. During the Soviet era, these kinds of officials were not allowed to leave the country after they resigned because they had information concerning the national security issues. Former officials were not allowed to go out of …

According to the head of “New Times” party, Aram Karapetyan, the majority of Armenian political powers are western-oriented, but the West doesn’t have its candidate to nominate in Armenia during the presidential elections yet. “Before they used to target Arthur Baghdasaryan, but we saw what happened later”, said Karapetyan. According to him, the best proof …

In the fall, EU representative Mrs. Ohara will visit Armenia to check up on the conditions of Armenian monuments. Tigran Torosyan announced yesterday that the Azeri representatives of the EU had spread a draft according to which Azeri historical monuments had been destroyed in Armenia. Tigran Torosyan says that Azerbaijan may present a list of …

“I think the mayor of Yerevan should be elected by the municipality, which means that the mayor is elected directly”, said mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan yesterday. He also said who he saw as mayor and said that mayors should be non-partisan or they should at least be out of the political field during the …

“Hey! Are you taking this photo to publish it either in “Armenian Times” or “168 Hours” newspapers? What do you write in your papers about me? What are you doing? Aren’t you afraid? Who’s provoking me? Whoever does that, I will beat him, damn it!” This is how the RA police board deputy head, Hovhannes …

“The owner of the Armenian “Great Valley” brandy company, MP Tigran Arzakantsyan spread rumors that he had been beaten because he owed a debt worth almost one million dollar to a casino in Moscow”, writes the Russian web page “Vodka”. The same page writes that according to “Mediamax”, Arzakantsyan lost about one million dollars at …

According to the “Rule of Law”, those privatizations dealt with fraud and violations. As to why they are discussing this now and whether they have learned from their mistakes now, we can only assume one thing: it is a pre-election period. Recently the NA speaker, Arthur Baghdasaryan applied to the chief prosecutor to institute legal …

During an interview with “168 Hours”, former plenipotentiary adviser to the Russian Ombudsman Arbak Khachatryan, who has just recently been released from prison, denied the rumors claiming that the semi-weekly has only talked with him and one of the witnesses of his case Yuri Ryabtseyev. Khachatryan was arrested in 2003 for providing financial aid to …

The National Assembly deputies will most probably get cards to vote and register at the parliament during the fall session. The National Assembly came up with the idea of giving cards to MPs in order to get rid of their obsession of voting on behalf of another MP. This way our MPs will get into …