Politics

Shouldn’t deny

25.12.2005

There is rumor going around that Manouk Gasparyan is backed by Andranik Margaryan. And although often there are negative ideas regarding the powers backing him, it is a fact that Hranoush Kharatyan, Souren Zolyan and Stepan Grigoryan (Armat) are in Manouk Gasparyan’s party (Party of Democratic Forces). During our conversation with Manouk Gasparyan he told …

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Chief appears at the end

25.12.2005

Word has it that the secretary of “Justice” alliance Victor Dallakyan is going to be the leader of the “Developing Armenia” political party that Gagik Tsarukyan is going to found. Recently, one of Dallakyan’s friends asked him why he kept that news secret and he answered jokingly: “the chief appears at the end”. Then he …

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Scared even to say hello

25.12.2005

– What do you think about the current political environment? – To be honest with you, the same what we used to have at the beginning is going on. I think our country is formed already and there is no difference who the ruling power is. Whoever comes to rule, it is the same, we …

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Is CIS a club of illegal presidents?

25.12.2005

By the drastic rise of the gas price Russia has given us another blow to the face. Instead of learning certain things of this policy and changing their foreign policy, our high-rank statesman do the opposite by getting even more degraded to Russia. By the way, there was recently a noteworthy article published in Russian …

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Kocharyan split up the opposition’s ranks

25.12.2005

The opposition’s “Justice” alliance is splitting up slowly yet surely. President of the National Democratic political party (NDP) and National Assembly deputy Shavarsh Kocharyan has decided to no longer cooperate with the alliance starting from December 20. He decided to have nothing do with the “Justice” alliance or work with them during the NDP administrative …

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Give us back our lands

25.12.2005

Through the combined efforts of the members of the “Nikol Abghalyan” student union, many students had come (we later found out that they had been arrested) to be present at the conference. The conference began in the small auditorium of the NAS, however, since there were too many people in the auditorium and some were …

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Taxi…taxi

25.12.2005

There is one topic being discussed by taxi drivers in Yerevan for a long time. They are all talking about the National Assembly deputy and businessman Gagik Tsarukyan’s company importing more than 300 “Volga” brand name cars to Armenia. According to the drivers, 150 of the cars have already been imported and they are waiting …

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Moving towards a formal democratic nation

25.12.2005

So, it turns out that Armenia will receive approximately 236 million dollars in the framework of the “Thousand Year Battles” project. This amount is a pretty large amount for our country; as a matter of fact, it is more than we expected. Of course, the president of the “Thousand Year Battles” corporation has sent a …

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Republicans are not afraid of anyone

22.12.2005

On Saturday RA Defense Minister Serj Sargsyan attended the meeting of republicans, where he stayed for some time and then after the RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan concluded his speech, he left. According to some politicians this was a political step by Serj Sargsyan to show everyone by whom RP will be backed during the …

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Where are your members?

22.12.2005

Yesterday during the session of the “New Times” party the Chairman of the “to be created” new party “Democratic Way” Manuk Gasparyan criticized the united opposition of their inability to organize protests. In his words if we look at the number of people volunteering for the opposition parties we can see that there are over …

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