Politics

During his last press conference held last year, NA Chairman A. Baghdasaryan was saying that he can’t stand to see Russia increase the gas price because he won’t be able to explain to the voters why Russia is doing this to its strategic partner. Yesterday he changed his words around: “Let’s see what the outcome …

According to www.lragir.am, the “Prosperous Armenia” party is planning on a number of meetings with voters/citizens. The meetings will start in Yerevan communities and will then move on to the Marzes. According to the same source, the organizers are planning on organizing the meetings so that they won’t look like a political campaign.

Yesterday, after Turkish Prime-Minister Rejep Taib Erdoghan met with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, he said that Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan were planning on exploiting the “Baku-Tbilisi-Erzrum” gas pipeline by the end of the year. “The main goal of cooperation between Turkey and Georgia is to provide the transfer of the Turkmen gas to Turkey …

Today the NA Deputies will elect the second Ombudsman of Armenia. By taking into consideration the number of opposition deputies, who were disappointed in the speech made by Ruben Torosyan (former Dashnak), he will probably have difficulty in getting elected by the opposition members, who nominated him. On the other hand, Armen Harutyunyan has better …

Yesterday the coalition didn’t do as they are used to doing by organizing a competition with one candidate and they didn’t even try to prevent the opposition from nominating their candidate, but what’s more, they gave them several signatures to make everyone sure that Armen Harutyunyan is not the only candidate in this competition. As …

“The political parties of the coalition have promised to continue cooperating until the 2007 National Assembly elections in order to then use the election time period wisely. We have to do our best to make sure that the pre-election campaign doesn’t hurt the election process, which is very important for the country. The only guarantee …

In Karabagh, some officials have been removed from office in the beginning of this year, including two ministers-the Minister of Urbanization and the Minister of Social Security. Officials are once again being removed from office after a short gap. The rumors about removing the General Prosecutor of Karabagh Mavrik Ghukassian were no longer rumors on …

During the 9th session of the Strategic/Technical Defense (STD) NGO, General/Major Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan (also known as Commandos) was reelected as the president of the central board. The STD is Armenia’s largest NGO. It has 48 branches and 69,000 members. According to the organization’s charter, a session is held every two years. The deadline for the …

“In a matter of years, Azerbaijan will become an important source for energy for both Southern Caucasus and for Europe”, announced Aliev during the module type power station opening in Astaria. According to him, they have produced 22 million tons of oil in 2005, which is a record for them. According to Aliev, they are …

Yesterday the political board of the “Legal State” party held a meeting where Arthur Baghdasaryan introduced the director of “Hyefilm” film studio Gevorg Gevorgyan as the future Minister of Culture. Arthur Baghdasaryan, who always shows that he is democratic, introduced Gevorgyan only after asking the president and getting his permission to nominate him for that …