Politics

The topic for today’s open air meeting of the “Republic” political party, according to leader Aram Sargsyan, is the necessity of changing the present authorities. “Believe me when I say that coming to power is quite possible. When scientists were inventing things, at first, nobody thought that that could be invented. The scientists started to …

Today the “Republic” political party will hold a special meeting near the Matenadaran. There will be 500-600 chairs placed beforehand for party members in order to create a normal environment. Aram Sargsyan had called a press conference yesterday in order to clarify why they needed to have a special meeting. “It turns out that the …

Gagik Khachatryan was appointed as a deputy minister of the RA Ministry of Agriculture on the basis of the decision of the RA prime-minister. Before that Gagik Khachatryn used to have an administrative position at “State Purchase Agency”.

Robert Simons, the special representative of the general secretary of NATO in South Caucasus will visit Armenia on October 26-28. According to sources and the press department of the RA Foreign Affairs ministry, Mr Simons is going to meet with Robert Kocharyan, Foreign Affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan and with Defense deputy minister Arthur Aghabekyan.

The budget of 2006 will provide 4.420 billion dram for prisons. The most interesting thing is that 400 mln dram from this sum will be provided for constructing a new building for prisoners sentenced for life. This means that Nairi Hunanyan is going to live in better conditions. This is probably a present to Nairi …

The citizens of Noubarashen know that this house belongs to Vesmir Hovsepyan, who used to be the head of Noubarashen electric power station. Mr. Hovsepyan approved this information during his phone conversation with our correspondent. A territory of 3.000 meters and a 2-3 meter high wall surrounds the house. Citizens of Noubarashen say that this …

According to our information during the election for the city of Stepanakert’s mayor’s position MP Karen Karapetyan backed the existing mayor Sargis Gharakeshishyan. This fact is interesting because the competitor of Mr. Gharakeshishyan, Artak Alexanyan was backed by “Rule of law” political party and by the RA president’s personnel head Artashes Tumanyan.

During  today’s meeting the head of “National Unity” political party Artashes Geghamyan is going to make a serious suggestion to the authorities. According to him this suggestion can be “a golden key” for the authorities. In response to our question as to what the key was in regard to that key, he said that he …

“Karabakh is a part of the economy of Armenia”,-announced Arkadi Ghukasyan in “New Politics” newspaper. According to him, this was logical  due to the geopolitical positions of both countries on the map. But this doesn’t mean that Karabakh doesn’t have its own opinion on different social and political issues connected with their relations with Armenia. …

“The authorities provided 18 million USD from the fund money to reconstruct 18 schools. They need maximum 500-600 K USD to build and furnish a new school. They will provide 1.200.000 USD for one school reconstruction. Now you can see where the money goes”, – said MP Smbat Ajvazyan confused. Answering to our question about …