Politics

What is a community? According to our legislation, “the community is the base for democracy within the state. The community is a regional administrative and population unit and the people elect bodies to govern or implement local government.” The latter, according to the European Legislation on Local Government passed in 1985, claims that communities “regulate …

Armenia’s inter-political life keeps questioning the legitimacy of the authorities election after election. The opposition promises to start a revolution because the authorities are illegitimate, insists on us saying “no” to the constitutional amendments because the illegitimate authorities do not have the right to make changes in the constitution. Also, the governing bodies are trying …

“Me? I have not seen those people at all. We don’t kidnap. Kidnapping or arms is not our weapon, but rather, politics. We can make them kidnap themselves through politics,” said Hakob Hakobyan in response to the question as to why he had kidnapped mayor candidate for Etchmiadzin Yervand Aghvanyan’s trusted friend. “It is a …

According to sources, on October 23, President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, coordinating minister Hovik Abrahamyan, head of the Customs Committee Armen Avetisyan, head of the 10th division Grisha Sargsyan and other officials spent their time off at the “Hunter” shooting ring located at the Nubarashen crossroad. Whereas the president was shooting without …

National Assembly MP and member of the “Nig Aparan” Patriotic Alliance Manuk Gasparyan believes that Aghvan Hovsepyan’s decision to say “yes” to the constitution is “absurd and non-political”. “There are different types of members with different ideologies of political parties in the “Nig Aparan” Patriotic Alliance. They all gather in order to solve social/economic issues …

On October 24th, starting from 11:00 until 6 p.m., a wide forum took place at the hall of the Yerevan police station’s municipal department, where the police chief was also present. The results of the nine month operations and services for the year of 2005 were discussed with the department’s subdivisions. The chief police of …

The leader of the headquarters for “yes” to the constitution Mher Shahgeldyan’s speech yesterday at the conference can be summed up by saying that the “yes” campaign is underway. Coordinating councils and funds have been created and voting lists of the regions are being double checked..According to Shahgeldyan, the schedule foreseen for visiting homes has …

Secretary of the “Artarutyun” (Justice) alliance Victor Dallakyan injured his foot while playing soccer on Saturday. His foot must go through a minor operation. This means that he will not appear in the political arena for a week and according to him, his foot injury is the only reason why.

M.Muradkhanyan said that he didn’t agree with the announcements in the media that there is no charismatic leader among the opposition members. Then he pointed a finger at Alexandr Melikpashyan, head of Nork Mental Hospital and said: “Why do you do that? Why don’t you take care of those mad people till the end? Why …

During the elections on Sunday, the only candidate and present mayor of Sevan Gevorg Malkhasyan was reelected. According to the statistics provided by the Central Electoral Committee, 8166 of the 19,357 citizens took part in the elections and 7864 voters voted for G. Malkhasyan. Only 149 people have voted against.