Politics

Recently former chess world champion Garri Kasparov gave an interview to “Standard” news agency, where he said that Putin keeps firm ground with the help of oil, which makes the West depend on Russia for the oil. “I understand Putin’s strategies. Russia needs Iran for developing nuclear weapon. They need the “Hamas” to make the …

On April 6 there will be radio monitoring in the territory in between the Armenian Ijevan and Azerbaijan Ghazakh cities, in a place called Berkaber, which will be conducted under the sponsorship of OSCE. This time the representative of the OSCE head, Andrey Kasprshik, will take part from the Azerbaijani part.

After the adoption of the RA law on dual citizenship, our enemies, Turks and Azerbaijani, may get Armenian citizenship too. We wonder whether the ARF, which was the most active to adopt this law, will agree with this. Yesterday we asked head of the ARF parliamentary faction, Levon Mkrtchayn, and member of ARF board, Armen …

The coalition met with the president yesterday. This time they discussed the draft of recommendations to the RA Electoral Code. Please note that the parliamentary oppositional and governmental powers have come to an agreement to amend the EO (make about 100 amendments). As we were informed by a representative of the coalition and head of …

“We recognize Armenia as an independent country. We don’t have diplomatic relations, but we do respect the independence of Armenia as well as that of the other post-Soviet countries,” said adviser to the Turkish Prime Minister Egemen Bagish a couple of days ago in New York. According to Bagish, Turkey is not opening the border …

During a joint press conference with EU special representative in the Southern Caucasus Peter Semnebi and Foreign Minister of Affairs of Armenia Vartan Oskanyan, something very interesting happened. While discussing the Karabagh conflict resolution, Peter Semnebi said that he believes that not resolving the conflict and closing borders with neighboring countries will hurt Armenia’s economic …

After getting rid of the ban on dual citizenship stated in the former Armenian Constitution, the ARF members promised that they would work on passing a law on dual citizenship. However, they can’t come up with solutions to the most concrete issues. This mainly concerns the dual citizens’ rights to elect and get elected. During …

Armenians mainly blame the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as the political elite of each country for the failure of the Karabagh conflict negotiations in Rambulle, but in reality there are other reasons. However, this doesn’t mean that the “elite” of each country is not hindering the negotiations process. They are hindering it …

“You can protect your property in different ways: you can take a rifle or a stick, or join a party which ideas are good for you. But you don’t have to personally be involved in politics”, says oligarch Mikhail Baghdasarov. He hasn’t decided yet which political power he will join during the coming elections of …

According to the “Figaro” 11 days after the presidential elections of Belarus, which was conducted in widespread fraudulence, Moscow threatened to increase the gas price supplied to Belarus for five times. The Russian monopolist of this field, “Gazprom”, announced that Belarus had to pay for gas at the world prices. “Does this mean change of …