Politics

On Sunday Tigran Karapetich organized a rally near the Matenadaran with the purpose of, as he says, talking about patriotism. At first sight, this may seem absurd, but in fact with this he wanted to demonstrate how big of an electorate he has, who have always been with him no matter what he has organized. …

We asked David Shahnazaryan whether he thinks there will be a conflict between Armenia and Iran and he said: “It is really possible. Even the European countries that have good interests in Iran don’t have any facts to prevent the sanctions against Iran after the recent critical announcements by Iran. I think there will be …

Today a delegation from the USA will visit Armenia, which will be headed by Congressman Jim Kolbe. Congressman Scott Garrett and head of the “Millennium Corporation”, John Danilovich are part of the mentioned delegation. The purpose of this visit is to discuss details with the authorities regarding the “Millennium Challenges” project and opening a new …

Yesterday member of the parliamentary ULP party, MP Levon Poghosyan dropped his mandate and ceased his parliamentary activities. He says that he has done this himself without any pressure and the reason is that he wants to work somewhere else. We should confess that this is a very specific case in the history of our …

– What do you have to say about handing over the Hrazdan electricity station’s 5th energy block and the right to construct one section of the Iranian-Armenian gas pipeline to Russia? – Kocharyan has been going against Armenia ever since he was elected as president. Everyone knows that he is even thinking about decreasing our …

As stated in the previous edition of “168 Hours”, Vladimir Zhirinovski and his “Liberal-Democratic” party are planning on organizing the third session of the “World Congress of Patriotic Parties” in Moscow. According to our sources, the Armenian Republican Party, the ARF and the Rule of Law, as well as the National Democratic Union headed by …

Everyone knows that as soon as our officials leave for abroad they visit casinos and waste money there. In most cases they take some businessmen with them to cover the real purpose of their visit. Of course they do their best to cover this information and not to let anyone find out about this in …

The family of Syunik Marz regional manager, Surik Khachatryan, has been faced with an unpleasant situation. On April 5 the local police department of Goris visited the apartment of Surik Khachatryan’s brother (Seiran Khachatryan, born in 1958) in Goris and check up to find drugs. According to our informed sources the police found some kinds …

The “Alliance” party headed by Samvel Babayan has actively started a process of giving party memberships in Vanadzor city. When one of Vanadzor citizens asked a representative of that party whether they were oppositional or governmental, he answered, “We don’t know yet”. As for politicians that know the activities of Samvel Babayan well, they say …

Yesterday the US Department of State published a report dedicated to their works to “develop democracy and protect human rights”, which contains a separate chapter writing about the situation in Armenia. Based on the report, although there are positive developments in human rights protection in Armenia, the situation is still bad. “The large responsibilities of …