Politics

Karabagh is not too optimistic

31.01.2006

For the first time, the new president of the OSCE and Belgium’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel de Gucht paid a two day visit to Armenia in order to “prepare both presidents for an effective meeting.” Gucht also met with president of Karabagh Arkadi Ghukassian during the evening a couple of days ago. He also …

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Family scandal or based on interests?

31.01.2006

The most talked about issue today in Armenia is the gas price increase. People are talking about both the time needed to repair the gas pipeline explosion and the Armenian-Russian gas price negotiations. In reality, the issue is much more complicated. The issue concerns reviewing Armenian-Russian relations. What’s important here is what Armenia thinks of …

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It won’t work out without Karabagh

31.01.2006

The closer we get to day when the Armenian and Azeri presidents will meet in Paris, the more we see the differences in attitude between the two leaders. There is another contradiction. The greater the international pressure on Azerbaijan and Armenia, the more the attitude towards NKR will change. In particular, during the visit of …

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Serious challenge

31.01.2006

During the January 17 meeting of Robert Kocharyan and John Evans, the latter announced that in Washington DC and everywhere else people are seriously concerned about the Constitutional Referendum, which took place on November 27. Therefore, the US cannot confirm the Challenges of the Millennium program until the RA government has not proved to the …

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Tried to have fun and be useful

31.01.2006

Recently, the media published NA Speaker, Artur Baghdasaryan’s speech entitled, “Strategies of Strengthening Democracy in Post-totalitarian States”. According to the RA NA Department of Publicity, the speech was made at the International Conference by the Austrian Prime Minister, Wolfgang Sheussel. According to our sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Baghdasaryan went to Austria on …

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Armenia is not trusted

31.01.2006

The RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs has starting thanking the U.S.A. on behalf of the Armenian people and government starting on September 22. They were thanking the U.S. for the support shown to the Armenian people. This referred to “Challenges of Millennium Corporation” (CMC). The CMC has decided to provide Armenia with $235.65 million dollars …

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Who blew up the gas pipeline?

27.01.2006

Who benefits from the “Mozdok-Tbilisi” gas pipeline explosion? There have been many opinions, better yet, accusations about this during the past couple of days. The Russians blame the Georgians and vice versa. Nobody is accusing us of anything yet, although we don’t blame anyone either or express our point of views. However, president of Georgia …

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A Constitution full of doubts

27.01.2006

During the winter session of the European Council, which launched in Strasburg yesterday, Thomas Yirsa’s speech about Armenia’s constitutional amendments referendum, which took place on November 27, 2005, was one of the speeches among many others. However, the council had not included this issue in the agenda, so the newly appointed member of the Armenian …

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The godfather – 4

26.01.2006

People that have watched “The godfather” film will probably remember the part when the mafia head, Michael Carleone was baptizing his cousin in the church, and at the same time his people were killing the ones whom they didn’t like, as well as the father of that child. Probably when looking at this picture Michail …

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Out of the interests of Azerbaijan

26.01.2006

The former president of Azerbaijan, Ajaz Mitalibov doesn’t agree with the optimistic opinion of those people who think that the Karabakh conflict will be regulated soon and says: “If the problem is solved, I am 100 % sure that it will be out of the interests of Azerbaijan. The solution can be in compliance with …

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