Politics

The RA president advisor Vigen Sargsyan periodically visits the public information center for the Constitutional referendum ( located on the crossroad of Tumanyan and Abovyan streets) and gives instructions to them, once more proving that this center carries out the constitutional campaign.

In 2006 the financial aid provided for the RA defense field will cover 150 million dollars compred to the 120 million in 2005. Yesterday RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan said that the state budget will provide financial aid for the defense field would be enough for Armenia’s security: “But we can’t ignore the social field …

Some people say that the articles concerning the president being untouchable and making changes of borders were included in the Constitutional Draft by the order of the RA president. These articles are special messages sent to the West. This message is: “I am ready to make compromises regarding the Karabakh peace settlement, but I have …

The political party of MP, businessman Gagik Tsarukyan intends on entering the active political field very soon. According to our sources, they are going to win a lot of places in the National Assembly during the parliamentary elections of 2007. In order to have a majority in the National Assembly Gagik Tsarukyan will join the …

Member of the board of financial issues of the U.S. House of Representatives Barney Frank has joined the fifty congressmen in signing the draft banning U.S. financial aid for the construction of the Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi railroad surrounding Armenia. “Constructing this railroad, which surrounds Armenia, is wrong from the moral and economic point of views,” said the …

The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamediarov announced yesterday that Baku is against the allocation of NATO peacekeepers in the Karabagh conflict settlement process. “This issue is first and foremost connected to the mandate of the peacemakers, but we have not even started to plan it all out. If we talk about how all that …

At the beginning of the meeting, rector of the Agrarian university Arshaluys Tarverdyan made it clear for everyone that nobody should get the impression that the meeting was organized to make anyone vote “yes” or “no”. “This event was organized in order to show how each person can make a decision based on personal opinions …

On November 20 “Nig Aparan” Nationalistic Union will fight against itself during the elections for Aparan city mayor. There are two candidates for this position and both of them are from the same Union. One of them is the existing mayor, deputy president of the Union Razmik Petrosyan. And the other one is member of …

Armenia’s men’s team of chess players placed third in the world team championship held in Israel; Russia and China placed 1st and 2nd. We congratulate our men and wish them future successes. This is one of the few cases when Armenians managed to reach success through teamwork (Ararat-73, two teams of KVN and the men’s …

“A state is defined as a territory where the people have the right to form their own government. To pass dual citizenship is the same as changing that definition around. It is similar to handing over the territory,” said David Shahnazaryan yesterday during a dual citizenship seminar at the “Congress” hotel. Chief editor of “Aravot” …