Politics

The only people who feel the grief and loss of Armenian spy Gurgen Markaryan are his parents and brother. Gurgen was brutally killed by Azeri sinner, Ramil Safarov, on February 19, 2004. Anyone who talks about this crime doesn’t really bring up the facts. On January 1, 2004, Margaryan went to Budapest to study English …

They are trying to connect this with the current stage of negotiations on the Karabakh conflict and discuss why the authorities used their administrative resources to organize such a rally 18 years after the tragic incidents in Sumgait. What did they want to prove with this? They have mostly discussed the announcement made to the …

After the six deputies of the “People’s Deputy” group denied that the had signed their names on the document to be sent to the Constitutional Court (CC) they were called to the President’s office and threatened that if they accept their signatures, they will suffer the consequences. And when the police suddenly “visited” NA Deputy …

Nobody was surprised to find out that the Kocharyan-Aliev meeting in France on February 10-11 was in vain. I don’t think anyone will hallucinate and claim that the future meetings will be effective, if of course, there are any meetings. The co-chairmen were simply optimistic of the meeting based on the “right time” principle, that’s …

The MPs of the National Assembly felt pretty bad yesterday when they found out that they could no longer smoke in the National Assembly lobby, the buffet and other places where smoking isn’t allowed. As a matter of fact, there were “No smoking” signs in the buffet just yesterday. The thing is that the National …

The media and politics go together in Armenia and there are two issues on which both agree on. The first is the number of political parties in Armenia and the second concerns the parliament. Both pro-government and the pro-opposition media talk about these issues with irony. Let’s start out with the parliament, or National Assembly. …

Mann even said that it would be a tragedy if the conflict were not resolved during this year. Meanwhile, based on the opinions of both sides and the other OSCE co-chairmen, you get the impression that they are mostly content with the present situation. This all fits in if we consider the cosmopolitan changes going …

As Russian president Vladimir Putin was leaving Azerbaijan after his visit, Azerbaijani immigration service officials arrested Russian television cameraman Sos Grigoryan at the airport for no apparent reason. According to the “Gazette” paper, the immigration services supervisors haven’t given a warning to the journalists, who looked like they were from Slovenia. However, they asked Grigoryan …

“The US is very disappointed in the negotiations in Rambeau”, said deputy to the US secretary of the Department of the State Nicolas Berns in his interview given to “Nezavisimaja gazeta” newspaper. According to him, the US strongly believed that this meeting was a great chance to progress in the conflict negotiations process. “In 1991-1992, …

Armen Gevorgyan doesn’t really know about his rights and responsibilities as the newly appointed head of the president’s staff. The president has already ordered Gevorgyan to coordinate the projects implemented by the “Linsie” foundation. In regard to the coordination of the Yerevan-Iran gas pipeline construction, the press secretary of the president, Viktor Soghomonyan said: “I …