Politics

More than 200 employees of French “Liberation” daily have been making a strike since Monday. This company has been around since 1973 and this strike is the biggest one in the history of the company. The reason for this strike is the financial crisis of the company and their activities contradicting the interests of the …

Definitely the members of the National Assembly have made a decision to solve the problem of the referendum in a “sweet” manner. These last days the members of the National Assembly are trying the candies with “yes” and “no” written on them. As a result of our independent survey it turned out that about 24 …

Yesterday Arshak Sadoyan organized a press conference and announced: “Some oppositionists couldn’t take their financial situation and pressure any longer and were “sold” for money”. He meant the oppositionists that were included in the electoral commissions. Arshak Sadoyan didn’t blame those “sold” people; he just called some of them as betrayers. We asked him to …

Recently the RA Marz administration bodies called heads of village communities and asked them to give votes for “yes” during the referendum and promised that everything would be fine after the referendum. Most of the village communities that had made electoral violations before said to each other that they couldn’t organize this kind of thing …

Yesterday “Armenian Revolutionary Federation” organized a meeting and the agenda was the following: “Constitutional Amendments – a chance for national agreement”. According to member of the National Assembly Armen Roustamyan the purpose of this meeting was to help those people that hadn’t made any decision to orient and take part in this important referendum. With …

The government will discuss the issues concerning the constitutional amendments referendum during the session today. According to sources, Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan is going to assign the ministers not to make big efforts to pass the constitutional amendments and not to falsify the ballots because the government does not need to make ”big efforts” during …

“The fight against corruption is at the highest level in Armenia compared to the other CIS countries,” said director of the Yerevan branch of the OSCE Vladimir Pryakhin to “Regnum” news agency. According to Pryakhin, the fight against corruption allows the establishment of democracy. The OSCE is cooperating with the Armenian government in planning out …

Due to the special services team of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, all the customs workers working at the Armenian-Georgian “Sadakhlo” border were arrested on November 22. According to Russia’s “Novosti” news agency, which had information from the press center of the ministry, 18 people had been arrested. The police informed that the customs …

The ARF plans on presenting its own candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. This announcement was made by ARF Bureau representative Hrant Markaryan. He emphasized the fact that in order to eliminate the “subjective phenomena” in Armenia, the ARF must come to power and that is why they need to put up their candidacy for …

On November 21, Raffi Hovhannisyan’s office has sent one part of the message directed towards citizens of Armenia to everyone where it is stated: “Real constitutions in the world are based on one main concept-the people are competent to accept or change the Constitution and they must do that after leading thorough discussions concerning the …