Politics

Until recently, there was no law about dual citizenship stated in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia. After the new Constitution of the Republic of Armenia passed by a referendum on November 27, there was no longer a ban on dual citizenship. Now it is necessary to regulate the legislation. During the days of …

The co-presidents of the OSCE Minsk group met with President of Republic of Karabagh Arkadi Ghukasyan yesterday. The meeting took place in the president’s branch in Armenia and lasted for more than an hour. The OSCE Minsk group did not present any written proposal to the president of Karabagh. “Our proposals are oral,” said Russian …

The President of Karabagh Arkadi Ghukasyan does not share the opinion of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, when he claims that we can not have what we had back in 1997 for solving the Karabagh conflict. “Levon Ter-Petrosyan is entitled to his own opinion, but I know for a fact that we can have more than what we …

The OSCE Minsk group co-presidents visited the region. There are no elections and/or referendum in neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan and as stated during many international conferences, 2006 may be a good year for the Karabagh peace settlement. Meanwhile, the opposition is trying to understand what kind of evaluations international structures gave regarding the fraud which …

According to our information Arthur Baghdasaryan has sold his apartment in the center of Yerevan and he and his brother have bought a large villa together not far from “Haghtanak” Park (on Babayan street). Arthur Baghdasaryan is going to live in the governmental “Summer house” in Hrazdan canyon (neighboring the president’s house) until his house …

Yesterday RA connection and transport minister Andranik Manoukyan, during our phone conversation, said that we could publish information in his name that all companies involved in newspaper subscription couldn’t be privatized (it is our pleasure to inform people about this). But we wonder why taxation bodies make intensive revisions in these companies and announce that …

According to our preliminary information deputy head of “Armenian Electric Power Stations” CJSC Gevorg Avetisyan won the elections in Nor Hachn city on Sunday. Five candidates were nominated in Nor Hachn city for the mayor’s position. G. Avetisyan got 2059 votes. Gagik Matevosyan got 1996 votes (he was backed by RA general prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan …

Yesterday there was a governmental special session, which was conducted by the RA prime minister. On the base of the RA Constitution (Article 70) the government made a decision to apply to the NA head with the purpose of organizing a meeting on December 15 at 12:00 to hold discussions and bring up some governmental …

According to Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Robert Kocharyan uses the Karabakh conflict issue to develop his interests in Armenia, and Ilham Aliev uses this issue to develop his interests in Azerbaijan. According to him these two parties will be obliged to find a solution in 2006. “Now they propose the same draft as they did in 1997. …

Yesterday “Justice” alliance held a meeting and brought up a decision, according to which next year Stepan Demirchyan will represent “Justuce” alliance in the EU instead of Shavarsh Kocharyan. We asked Shavarsh Kocharyan whether he was going to drop his membership after these developments, but he didn’t answer to our question. It is worth to …