Politics

The Russian military forces and troops located in Armenia do not intend on threatening any third country in the region. This was announced by head of the Collective security agreement Nikolay Bordyuja. “The presence of Russian troops in the region not only proves that Russia protects its interests, but also the fact that Russia protects …

The deputy minister of RA foreign affairs, Gegham Gharibjanyan is going to make an official trip to Turkmenistan on March 14. During this visit he is going to meet with the president Sapharmurat Niazov, foreign affairs minister Rashid Meredov, oil production and mining minister Kurbanmurat Ataev and culture and TV broadcasting minister Maral Biashimova.

US congressman Frank Palone has expressed his disappointment regarding the rumors about firing the US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans. In his letter as of March 10 Mr. Palone expressed his disappointment about the decision of the Department of the State to call back the Ambassador due to his honest announcement regarding the Armenian Genocide. …

Whereas before, according to the RA Electoral Code, parties are elected on the majority basis in case of getting over 5% of votes, and alliances – over 7%, now this principle is going to be changed. For separate parties the limit of 5% will stay the same, but as for alliances the ones that consist …

Yesterday the head of “Inheritance” party Raffi Hovhannisyan applied to the heads of the RA public prosecutor’s office and police board with a note regarding the illegal actions in his office and wrote that these illegal actions have stopped the work of their party. Hovhannisyan has asked to open his office. The archives, logo and …

On Saturday official representative of the foreign affairs ministry of Iran, Hamid Reza Asefi announced that Iran was not going to continue discussing the project of founding a center for uranium enrichment in Russia and Iran was going to start taking certain steps to realize this project in their territory. This announcement was made after …

Recently the former advisor to the Russian ombudsman, Arbak Khachatryan was released from the “Lefortovo” prison. It is worth mentioning that in 2003 before the Armenian presidential elections he was jailed for providing financial support to candidate Artashes Geghamyan. On February 5, 2003 citizen of Russia and Doctor Youri Riabtsev was arrested in the Yerevan-Moscow …

On March 27, the Minister of Finances and Economy of RA Vardan Khachatryan and executive director of the “Millennium Challenges” Corporation will sign the long-expected contract on providing Armenia with 235,65 million USD for a 5 year implementation period. US State Secretary Condoleza Rice will also be present at this event and will make a …

“In 2003 the government seized this guy and did their best to jail him. Now he’s out of prison and they’re scared,” said Artashes Geghamyan about Arbak Khachatryan during yesterday’s conference. After that, in reference to the government, Geghamyan said, “Please, calm down. I’ll ask Arbak not to hurt you. The people should condemn you …

The union of UN employees drew a vote of no confidence to General Secretary of the UN Kofi Annan, who showed an initiative of reforming the UN. He has offered to reform the working system of the UN staff, which would lessen bureaucracy and would make the work more productive. The “France Press” mentions that …