Politics

The speakers were the two oppositionist political parties of the National Assembly and representatives of parties not from the National Assembly. Representative of the ARF Bureau on Political Issues and the HyeDat Yerevan branch Kiro Manoyan was also present at the meeting, as well as representatives from the Armenian Republican Party, “Rule of Law”, Armenian …

“Suren Baghdasaryan spread gossips and I am going to sue him for blackmailing me”, said NA member and the President of RA Soccer Federation Ruben Hayrapetyan during his interview with us yesterday. We’d like to remind you that during his interview with the “Haykakan Zhamanak” newspaper Suren Baghdasaryan accused R. Hayrapetyan of blowing up his …

Yesterday the RA National Assembly didn’t succeed in electing an Ombudsman. The deputies didn’t expect this and it is hard to say whether or not politics had to do with this. Most probably Armen Harutyunyan didn’t get elected due to “technical reasons”. This means that the coalition has not properly organized the procedure. But this …

In response to the accusations (according to which Serj Sargsyan is the one to blame for Robert Kocharyan’s and the coalition’s candidate for ombudsman Armen Hartyunyan’s loss) circulating in the Parliament, Serj Sargsyan said, “This is nonsense. The person who said that will answer to me. Do you want to mention one more time that …

According to “ITAR-TASS”, deputy-minister of emergencies of North Ossetia Vladimir Ivanov informed that, due to the snow the main highway connecting Russia with Southern Caucasus is closed. The highway might open today. “The road was closed due to snow over night. The snow is cleaned, however, the highway is still closed because the specialists are …

An appeal-letter was sent to the RA Constitutional Court regarding the RA Government’s decisions on the construction of Northern and Main Avenues in order to make it correspond to the new constitution. The appeal-letter was signed by the coalition deputies as well. However, Prime-Minister A. Margaryan doesn’t know who the brave deputies are, who dared …

Robert Kocharyan, who had paid an official visit to Sweden, announced yesterday, “After the recent announcements of Azerbaijani authorities, I am less optimistic of the positive outcome of the meeting with Azerbaijani President Aliev in Paris on February 10. In order to resolve the conflict of Karabagh both sides should express political good will and …

Many were surprised to see how the elections for the ombudsman did not go as planned. As for the representatives of the coalition parties, who were interested in the candidacy of Armen Harutyunyan, they were trying to hide their confusion. Yesterday the prime minister answered to the questions of journalists in the NA and said: …

NA Deputy from the Armenian Republican Party Ashot Aghababyan thinks that the Ombudsman’s position should be a lifelong position. Our current government may become an opposition in the near future and in that case it’s possible that the future government may abuse the rights of the future opposition. “If the Chairman of the Constitutional Court …

OSCE Minsk Group (working on the resolution of Karabagh conflict) has left for Paris in a hurry, where the meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s presidents is supposed to take place in Paris on February 10-11. A journalist from the PanArmenian.Net was informed at Juri Merzlyakov’s office (Russian co-chairman of the Minsk Group of OSCE) that …