Politics

Yesterday head of “Rule of law” political group Samvel Balasanyan announced in the NA that it was clear to everyone that there had been violations during the referendum. We asked him if it was clear that there had been fraud why they had signed the statements made by electoral commissions and he answered in confusion: …

Yesterday it was the first day to start the construction works of the gas pipe line in Northern Europe. This pipe line, which is 1200 meters long, will not cross any transit country and will reach Graysvald city in Germany. The part of the construction that is going to be done under the water will …

Yesterday during the oppositional public meeting Raffi Hovhannisyan said that he could sit on the pavement not far from the president’s office to wait for the answer for six days, but he didn’t want to take the president’s time. “Besides that I don’t dream of his position, his furniture, his office, his money and his …

The united opposition is planning on forming a new committee which will be involved in coordinating the plans that the opposition has for starting a revolution. Aram Karapetyan said this to our correspondent and added that the committee will be most likely called “Armenia”. According to our sources, the leaders of the committee will be …

An event took place yesterday during President Robert Kocharyan’s visit to Gyumri. After putting a bouquet of flowers in front of the monument dedicated to the victims of the earthquake, the delegation was to go to the regional council where the people gathered (mainly women) were trying approach R. Kocharyan and tell him about their …

Deputy officials from the United States and the CIS countries participated in the international conference dedicated to the 2nd anniversary of Georgia’s “Revolution of Roses”. Although it sounds strange, Armenia did not take part in the event-it didn’t even send an ambassador and that put down the reputation of the country in Georgia. However, the …

“Kentron” television network is in a pretty rough situation. According to preliminary information, Samvel Babayan is trying to get hold of the shareholdings of “Kentron” television network. The ARF is helping him out in this struggle behind the curtains. Let’s recall that we had stated in one of our previous editions that Samvel Babayan is …

After the constitutional amendments referendum (not only the referendum but also the public meetings that followed and failed), the inter-political situation of Armenia changed. Of course, the authorities can gloat over the oppositionists claiming that they didn’t get what they wanted from the Western world, just like Kolya Ostenbaken got from Polish beauty Inga Zayontsits, …

This is the fourth ARF meeting taking place in Armenia. The speaker is the political party’s bureau member Hrant Markaryan. The speech included issues concerning both internal and foreign politics. We must draw our attention to three points about foreign politics: 1. Armenia-Turkey, 2. Armenia-Georgia, 3. Karabagh conflict. What does Armenia need today-war or peace? …

The RA National Assembly vice speaker Tigran Torosyan says that he hopes that the people that made violations during the referendum will be punished. We asked him whether he would help the public prosecutor’s office and give them some facts of violations to investigate and he answered: “Of course if there is anything I can …