Politics

U.S. Ambassador John Evans and director of the USAID Robin Philips were invited to a press conference on October 27th. The press conference was held in order to discuss the democracy projects implemented by the U.S. government. We can not even mention the word “conference” because the ambassador could have simply spoken to the public …

Since we are continuing with the chess topic, this time we will try to analyze the game for the parliamentary elections which will take place in Azerbaijan. Judging from the events that took place in Baku these past couple of days, we can say for sure that the cosmopolitan grosmeisters playing this time are Russia …

The opposition makes announcements that if the authorities make violations during the referendum they will organize a public meeting in the city and will ask the authorities to resign. It is strange that the authorities don’t like this announcement. It seems that they are intended to make violations during the referendum and their only problem …

We know well that Armenia’s economic development mark in the last several years consists of two numbers. This is one of the things that our authorities are proud of. The development mark of 2003 was 14 %, and the mark of 2004 – 10,1 %. Probably this mark will be 11 % this year. According …

Yesterday MP Shavarsh Kocharyan organized a seminar on Constitutional amendments in the small hall of the American University. At first he criticized the existing Constitution. Then he started to praise the Constitutional Draft and amendments. And at the end he said, that there were some provisions in the Draft which were not so good as …

We asked Andranik Margaryan why they hadn’t let “Republic” party organize a meeting in the governmental meeting hall and he answered: “”They wanted to organize their meeting on October 25. They were told that the hall was wasn’t free for that day. They didn’t apply for another day. If they did so we would let …

On Tuesday Republican MP Ashot Ashotyan suggested the NA to construct a prayers’ room in the NA building and a small church close to the NA building. We asked the head of “Republican Party” Galoust Sahakyan whether there had been discussions in the NA regarding this suggestion and he answered: “The NA building is more …

Yesterday Robert Kocharyan announced that he was satisfied with the campaign works of the Constitutional amendments. He also noted that they also had to inform voters about these changes and they had published information books on the Constitutional amendments for citizens. “We want to inform all families of Armenia, so they can make their own …

According to well-informed sources a new political alliance or party may be founded, which will consist of the political powers of Samvel Babayan, Artashes Tumanyan and Armen Darbinyan. It is strange but the parties of the first two persons are not legally formed yet, but they say that the foundation meeting of the party of …

Yesterday the authorized bodies approved the form of the referendum ballot during the Central Electoral Commission meeting of yesterday. The ballot color is blue. The voters must vote by putting a mark in the relative field (“yes” or “no”). But as member of “Justice” alliance Felix Khachatryan noted, the ballot was transparent, which contradicted the …