Politics

The failure of the negotiations in France on the Karbagh conflict was predictable and it proves once more that the parties are still not ready for compromises. At the same time it doesn’t matter which party stopped the negotiations. What difference does it make which party has suggested first to “finalize the results” if there …

Perhaps we can understand that during those days everybody has been impatiently waiting for the Kocharyan-Aliyev meeting in Paris. Both opposition and authority parties were planning to go along with their activities based on the results of this meeting. But now, when the meeting is over without results, it’s interesting to know what the opposition …

The opposition surprised the coalitional political parties during the ombudsman elections. During the new elections, the opposition presented its new candidate-leader of the Constitutional Rights Union and “Justice” alliance MP Hrant Khachatryan. It seems as though this has mixed things up for the authorities and the MPs under the control of the authorities are faced …

“I was standing on the sidewalk waiting for a bus. All of a sudden, a car stopped right in front of me. It was inches away from me,” said Marina Janoyan. Then, a tall (approximately 5’7), fat but strong 30-year old man came out of the car. The latter came up close to the lawyer …

Yesterday anonymous people tried to attack lawyer Marina Janoyan with a car and later warned her to be careful. This terrorist act differs from previous ones in that the young terrorist tenderly whispered in Janoyan’s ear and than got into the car and left. The incident took place at 2:30 p.m. on Alek Manukyan Street, …

A law draft has been discussed in the Russian State Duma, according to which non-bank organizations may also make communal payments. This made Garegin Tosunyan’s anger. After all, he is the chairman of the Union of Russian Banks. He threatened the deputies that he would go to the Russian President Putin so that he would …

The RA president’s press secretary Victor Soghomonyan said that the results of the negotiations of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents may be considered both effective and ineffective. It was effective because the negotiations will continue. It was ineffective in that no concrete agreement was reached. Azerbaijani journalists spread rumors that RA President Robert Kocharyan had …

Upon his return from Paris, Robert Kocharyan had separate talks with coalition deputies in his office. The coalition deputies thought Kocharyan invited them to talk about his impressions from Paris and give them details about the negotiations. However the reason Kocharyan called the deputies is to express his anger about the announcements of the coalition …

To our question, “who would you trust as an ombudsman?”, L. Alaverdyan, first Ombudsman of Armenia, answered, “My preferred candidate is H. Khachatryan. However, A. Harutyunyan as a lawyer may also be interested why the first Ombudsman of Armenia is fired without receiving labor-book or a final salary”. “Why did the opposition join the “National …

The NA Spring Session was significant not only because of the ombudsman elections, but also due to the fact that the Legal State had started negotiating with Stepan Demirchyan and his “Justice” alliance over the possible cooperation during the 2007 parliamentary elections. According to our sources the negotiations have proceeded for four days and may …