Politics

– How can you explain the fact that RP lost a lot of local government elections in Marzes? – I think journalists don’t have enough information to come to these kinds of conclusions. I think there was no way to win the elections 100 %, but I think after you have all the information you …

The Territorial Electoral Commission of #34 precinct of Shirak Marz didn’t consider the application of mayor’s position candidate Martin Sukiasyan regarding the local government elections of October 23. As we were informed by the head of #34 PEC Sayat Minasyan, the application didn’t comply with the legal procedures. And in these kinds of cases the …

On Friday Republican Rafik Petrosyan announced that they might increase the sum of 1 billion for deposit reimbursements. “They will impose penalties on “Armentel” and some other companies and will give this money to depositors”,-said R. Petrosyan. We asked the Justice minister Davit Harutunuyan whether they were going to impose penalties on “Armentel” or some …

The government has published brochures with the purposes of informing voters about the Constitutional amendments. These brochures are going to be given to headquarters, which are responsible for the “yes” propaganda. These headquarters are going to distribute these brochures to people. Yesterday Andranik Margaryan announced this in the NA and said that it was just …

Of course the visit of the RA president Robert Kocharyan to Brussels was one of the main events of this week. By saying “main” I mean its political importance in the international community, because there are no facts proving that this visit was important for Armenia yet. Instead, we know that the president discussed the …

It turns out that neither the Armenian authorities nor European organizations are the ones taking the initiative for organizing the constitutional amendments. Instead, the National Autonomous Union is the one responsible. Leader of the National Autonomous Union Paruyr Hayrikyan discussed that during a press conference yesterday. It is no surprise to know that the NAU …

We can consider the meeting held by the “Republic” political party a couple of days ago at the Matenadaran square as one of a kind. Despite the authorities’ apparent tries to cancel the political party’s meeting by not providing a hall, the planned event became a reality. This was the first time that the political …

World famous Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has received the German publishers’ 2005 Peace prize. Let’s recall that during one of the interviews with a Swedish newspaper edition, Orhan Pamuk said that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds had been killed in Turkey after which an action had been brought up against him in Turkey. “I …

It has been a while since the propaganda for the constitutional amendments has begun. The authorities and the opposition are involved in finding reasons for saying “yes” or saying “no”. Let’s take into account the fact that there is really no difference in the reasons. The people in favor of either “yes” or “no” base …

It turns out that the electoral bribe “distributors” have stolen some money which belongs to voters. Some people are complaining that the voters would receive 500 drams out of the 2500 drams that each voter was supposed to receive on behalf of the mayor of Vanadzor beforehand and/or on Election Day. Some voters considered 2000 …