Politics

A group of electoral observers will visit Belarus to observe the presidential elections there. Among the representatives of this monitoring group are Central Electoral Commission members Armine Khachatryan and Sevak Arakelyan, head of the CEC foreign affairs department Liana Simonyan and head of the 9th Territorial Electoral Commission Eghishe Terteryan. Two MPs are also going …

The president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev has invited Mr. Kocharyan to visit their country. According to the press secretary of the president Viktor Soghomonyan, the period of stay still hasn’t been confirmed.

“Washington has already worked out several plans on how to seize Iran: supposedly, the U.S. will cross the border of Iran with the help of their military planes, as well as throw some bombs in Tehran with the help of different Islamic organizations”, said former American representative of the UN Scot Ritter and added that …

“Igdir will always stay part of Azerbaijan. There can be no discussions on opening the border with Armenia if there are any contradictions with the interests of Azerbaijan”, said head of Igdir Vilayet Nuraddin Aras. “Today the territories of Azerbaijan are occupied. If Armenia presents the 11 regions of Turkey as their territory and wants …

On February 14 a summit was organized in Yerevan called “Javakhk on the threshold of the challenges of the 21st century”, which was initiated by the “Nikol Aghbalyan” students’ union, which is a part of the Revolutionary Federation and accordingly the coalition. This time the issue of declaring Javakhk independent was raised again. Even more, …

The first and last president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev made a startling announcement during his interview with the “Moscow Comsomolets” newspaper edition a couple of days ago. According to him, it was justified for Nagorno Karabagh to be excluded from Azerbaijan. Gorbachev added that when he was president, there was a certain plan according …

MP Manuk Gasparyan wanted to know the name of the contractor of the hotel construction underway at the botanical garden and his name is Arayik. Arayik presents himself as Samvel Babayan’s chief bodyguard in different places. “168 hours” would like to inform Manuk Gasparyan that the so-called “chief bodyguard” of Samvel Babayan Arayik is also …

Some Azerbaijani political figures have touched upon Robert Kocharyan’s interview given to television networks. “President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan is being populist by announcing that if the Karabagh conflict negotiations don’t go as planned, the official Yerevan will recognize Karabagh’s independence,” said head of the foreign relations department of the Azerbaijani president’s administration Novruz Mamedov. …

Robert Kocharyan’s interview with some television networks a couple of days ago was pretty startling. The president of Armenia didn’t really make any negative remarks about any oppositional party or anyone, for that matter, and was not off topic. The only television networks that had been invited were “H1”, “H2” and a network from Artsakh. …

Former plenipotentiary adviser to Russian Ombudsman Arbak Khachatryan was recently released from the Lefortovo jail. He had been accused of financially supporting presidential candidate Artashes Geghamyan during the 2003 presidential elections in Armenia and was arrested in Moscow. At the time, rumors were flying around that Khachatryan was sending the money to his family doctor …