Politics

The cease-fire is frequently violated in different sectors of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Almost everyday there is information that the Azeri are shooting the Armenian soldiers. It’s surprising that there is no shooting on the Karabagh-Azerbaijan border (at least officially the authorities say there is not much going on there). This means that they want to …

According to the Armenian Assembly of America, at the end of March RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan and US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice will sign an agreement in Washington DC about providing $235 million to Armenia in the framework of the five-year program of the “Millennium Challenges” Corporation. The grant will be mainly directed to …

In response to the suggestion of the NA Deputy of “Justice” alliance Hrant Khachatryan, “it would be better if the deputy-ombudsman was from the opposition”, current Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Harutyunyan answered, “They always say that the Ombudsman’s Institute is too personalized. This was also mentioned during the NA election of the Ombudsman. If it’s …

“After 1998 the Armenian National Movement was self-isolated from politics and the society overall. It can hardly be considered a party any more,” say political scientist Hrachya Galstyan. He also stated, “The other affiliations such as the ARF and the Communistic Parties are also archaic and they are fading away. I wish this process gets …

– Have you analyzed why the negotiations of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan didn’t have any results and why the situation became worse after the negotiations in Rambeau? I mean the critical announcements of Aliev and the interview of Kocharyan afterwards, which according to the US Ambassador in Azerbaijan, Rino Harnish, made the situation …

The breaking news of this week, which relates to the contemporary history of Armenia and the Republic of Armenia, was published in the “California Courier” newspaper. The newspaper writes that the “rumors about the official resignation of the US Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, are true.” The reason of the Ambassador’s resignation is his speech …

On Saturday afternoon, members of the political party received a warning that there were three people trying to change the locks of the party’s central headquarters, located in the Hakob Paronyan’s musical comedy theatre building. When the members came to the office, they saw one of the people breaking the lock (general engineer for the …

– You got elected as ombudsman and everyone distrusted you because they thought that you are on Robert Kocharyan’s side. You responded to that by making a speech from the National Assembly podium, saying that the MPs thinking that you were going to go along with whatever Kocharyan said could simply not vote. That is …

Hrachya Galstyan, Aghasi Yenokyan, Vahagn Khachatryan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Petros Makeyan and David Shahnazaryan made an announcement yesterday. “Based on the results of the recent negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, both countries are mostly concerned about keeping the status quo of the Karabagh conflict settlement. Robert Kocharyan came to power back in 1998 and continues delaying …

The U.S. State Department’s annual report on the international strategy of the fight against drugs includes a section about Armenia, where it is clearly stated that corruption remains to be the main issue in Armenia. “Though the government worked out and adopted a program of strategic struggle against drugs, anyhow, there isn’t enough political will …