Politics

Assistant to the President of Russia Sergey Prikhodko informed us that President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will meet with President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan on December 16. He also informed that Kocharyan will pay a visit to Moscow in the middle of January 2006 in order to be present at …

A protest demonstration took place in one of the hotels of Sydney yesterday where Turkish Prime Minister Rajeb Tayib Erdoghan was staying at during his four day visit to Australia. The demonstration was organized by the representatives of the Armenian community of Sydney. The demonstrators had urged Erdoghan to recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Earlier …

In the past couple of weeks, many have been talking about the fact that it is possible that the Karabagh conflict will be settled next year. One other thing that is talked about a lot is that only the Karabagh peace settlement will be the motive for Armenian society to come out to the streets. …

Georgian and Armenian delegations went against each other during the main assembly of Black Sea countries in the capital of Albania-Tirana. The disagreements were for the start of the project of creating a passage for interregional communications. The debate began between Georgian MP David Saganelidze and president of the National Assembly of Armenia Arthur Bagdasaryan. …

Head of “Heritage” political party Raffi Hovhannisyan has sent a questionnaire consisting of 21 questions to RA president Robert Kocharyan and expects to get an answer till December 16. Some of these questions are as the following: “Have you ever participated, been informed beforehand about or committed murder during the war in Karabakh in out-of-war …

The Armenian delegation led by Sergo Eritsyan is currently in India. People still remember the boring program of Sergo Eritsyan (“Kartsik”), where he made everyone watch his boring broadcast from India. And now Sergo Eritsyan is in India again, but this time he visited India as a minister. On December 8 the Armenian delegation visited …

On December 12 a delegation led by Belarus defense minister and General Leonid Maltsev will visit Armenia for two days. They are going to meet with RA defense minister Serj Sarkisyan and president Robert Kocharyan.

According to one of the Karabakh conflict settlement drafts, international troops are to be located at the border with Azerbaijan. According to this draft, Russian troops will be included in it too. In fact the relevant international institutions try to do a favor for Russia.

NA vice speaker Tigran Torosyan thinks that the activities and efforts of the opposition to collect signatures are out of the needs of the present time and are nonsense. According to him the opposition has chosen a wrong path again. “Instead of collecting signatures they’d better make their representatives take part in electoral commissions and …

There was a conflict between the Armenian and Georgian delegations during the summit of Black Sea Region countries in Albania. This conflict rose between Georgian MP David Saganelidze and head of the RA NA Arthur Baghdasaryan. The reason was the Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku railway and the Abkhazian part of the Georgian railway. According to Saganelidze the Armenian …