Politics

Yesterday Russia and Belarus came to an agreement regarding Russia’s conditions for gas provision to Belarus in 2006. The fact that the gas price provided to Belarus remains the same is explained in the following way by Russia – the gas pipeline belongs to “Gazprom” and the land that the pipeline is built on is …

Recently member of the NA faction “Rule of Law” Heghine Bisharyan refused the service of her personal driver (Mrs. Bisharyan’s brother) because the driver usually put Mrs. Bisharyan in a difficult situation and made her blush. For example, lately, by the order of Artur Baghdasaryan journalists were sent to an event in marzes organized by …

RA Prime-Minister Andranik Margaryan left for Paris for December 19-26 in order to recover his health. The Prime-Minister decided that in his absence some of his functions will be conducted by the Minister of Urban Development Hovik Abrahamyan. Previously there were cases when the Prime-Minister entrusted his functions to Manuk Topuzyan, chief of staff.

By the order of the RA Chief of Police Grisha Ayvazyan and lieutenant-colonel of police was resigned from the position of the head of the police department in Tashir and appointed chief of the police department in Gugark. By another order of the Chief of Police of RA Nairi Sukiasyan, lieutenant-colonel of police was appointed …

As a response to the threats of the opposition, president Kocharyan “spoilt” the coalition by the referendum. Mr. Margaryan said “Besides voting Kocharyan hasn’t participated in the referendum in another form. I think the political forces didn’t make a mistake. The mistake of each political force will jeopardize the stability of the country and the …

Yesterday the Chairman of “New Times” party announced that he always was a pro-Russian political actor and would still remain the same. We asked the most pro-Russian political actor of Armenia to comment on the fact as to why our strategic partner Russia doubled the gas price for Armenia. He answered: “They say ‘If you …

The next 8th annual session of the trade and development Black Sea Bank will take place on June 11, 2006 in the capital city of Azerbaijan-Baku (currently Baku presides the organization). According to the Azerbaijani day.az, in order to organize the session in a decent way the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev initiated the creation …

“The softest part of my body has more wrinkles than the brains of that unsuccessful special agent of several countries”, announced the chairman of the “Democratic Way” party Manuk Gasparyan yesterday by responding to what Garnik Isagulyan said about him – “Manuk Gasparyan has no wrinkles on his brains”.

According to the estimation of the deputy-chairman of the Armenian Republican Party Tigran Torosyan, those people, who announce that the issue of Karabagh is in danger are “masochists”. “It’s the first time that the international community announces that the self-identification right should also be applied during the solution of the conflict. Any reasonable person would …

It turns out that Andranik Margaryan didn’t know what year we are in. One of the journalists asked him what the rooster’s year gave him. The Prime-Minister said, “I didn’t even know what year it was, we worked as usual”. To the question as to what he wishes in the dog’s year Mr. Margaryan answered, …