Politics

Recently the RA ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan sent a letter to the RA NA head Arthur Baghdasaryan, where she wrote that after the Constitution had been amended there were no clear provisions stating the status of the ombudsman’s institution in Armenia, which could cause difficulties for this institution activities. Larisa Alaverdyan wrote in her letter: “Since …

Usually people discuss the political developments of the year and give estimations on the threshold of the New Year. Although the past year was full of developments, the most important developments that could happen didn’t take place. In 2005 two big “actions” were organized: the dance around the Aragats Mountain and the Constitutional referendum. And …

Yesterday the city court of Tbilisi published the results of the medical investigation of citizen of Georgia Vladimir Harutyunyan, who had attempted to kill George W. Bush and Mikhail Saakashvili by throwing a percussion grenade at them. By publishing this information the court brought a verdict of guilty, but according to doctors Vladimir Harutyunyan had …

The real actions of the united opposition will start after Christmas. But before that parties included in the “18+8” format will be occupied with establishing party committees. Prior to the revolution of January 27, the opposition will organize various predictable and unpredictable events. “After Christmas the society will be gradually introduced to the plans and …

In the political aspect the holidays of the current year principally differ from the previous ones because (a) it is a pre-election year, (b) various western political wings think that it is a “convenient” year for the solution of the Karabagh conflict, (c) starting from January 1 the gas price will be raised, which will …

National Assembly MP and president of the “National Unity” political party Artashes Geghamyan: “If Robert Kocharyan is Santa Claus this year, I want him to resign from office; if Serj Sargsyan is Santa Claus, let him be satisfied with being Santa Claus, giving presents to famous intellectuals and not anticipate anything. If Santa Claus is …

In our previous publication we wrote that one of the opposition leaders had been offered to come up with the 21 questions that Raffi Hovhannisyan made, but he had refused. Reporter of “Parliamentary Newspaper” Russian newspaper Sergey Trusevich is sure that this politician is Artashes Geghamyan: “As for the opposition, it is very difficult to …

The head of the International Crisis Group (ICG) Caucasus program Sabina Fraser has announced that Armenia will agree to take their military powers out of some territories until the final clarification of the status of Karabakh is reached. “My approach is based on the base of the opinions of Armenian officials and as well as …

The co-chairmen of the US Congress group Joe Nolenberg and Frank Pallone, occupied with the solution of Armenian issues, have expressed their concern about the destruction of Armenian Khachkars (cross-stones) and inscriptions that took place in Nakhijevan on December 15. “Similar actions took place in 2002 as well. It was when only 2000 out of …

At present there are 71 political parties registered in Armenia. The registration of three more parties is pending. The party “Motherland” is in the registration stage, which according to our sources, is headed by the director of the “Mika Cement” cement factory of Hrazdan Naira Martirosyan. By considering the fact that the owner of the …