Politics

Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan has announced that if Azerbaijan continues to move the Karabagh peace settlement negotiations to another level, Armenia may look over its orientation towards the whole settlement. This can be considered as sensational. The following is what that announcement means. If Azerbaijan tends on solving separate issues concerning the Karabagh conflict out …

The authority orientated press, even though a little late, published and showed corresponding pictures of how President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan and Minister of Defense Serj Sargsyan were going around Nagorno Karabagh in military costumes. The press had probably forgotten the fact that Robert Kocharyan and Serj Sargsyan were not the president and defense minister …

“168 hours”: “Two days ago, the chief prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Armenia made a decision to quash the unfinished case of the October 27 events due to lack of information regarding the crime. As a matter of fact, during “168 hours” weekly’s interview with lawyer Ashot Sargsyan, he said that there are many …

During an interview on public television, President of Nagorno Karabagh Arkadi Ghukasyan announced that no matter how much Azerbaijan tries to spread the “terrorism” propaganda, it will not be able to solve anything without Karabagh. However, we must take into consideration the fact that Azerbaijan was able to solve a less important issue without the …

Why did the Chief of National Security Services Carlos Petrosyan get removed from office? It is very hard to answer this question because it is not clear as to what his department workers were doing during his time in office. Was he involved in national security? Was he gathering compromits? Was there a state racket …

“That house belongs to Bezoyan’s daughter and not Bezoyan,” said Director of the Project Implementation Office of the Linsie Foundation’s Road Construction Department Mr. Edik Bezoyan, who is from Karabagh by birth. He had responded to the question of whether or not the large house located near the kindergarten in Avan was his or not. …

As of 1997, 360,000 refugee families have settled in Armenia. Until this day only 65,000 people have become Armenian citizens. Only 3800 families have been provided with homes. At the present, around 10,000 families do not have a place to stay. According to official data, the level of unemployment among the refuges surpasses that of …

The U.S. embassy in Armenia had organized a reception on the night of the 44th U.S. presidential elections. In the early hours of 5-9 a.m. on November 3, the guests at the U.S. embassy were following up on the presidential elections on BBC and CNN and via the internet. They were marking the states on …

It was still the month of October when the Dashnaktsutyun (ARF) had threatened the authorities of turning their backs if they did not fulfill their demands and if they did not carry out actions in the cadre scheme in politics. “The ARF will not stay where it is and will point out the role it …

There is news going around that the former “R” television network belonging to Hrant Vardanyan has been sold to Mikael Baghdasarov. It turns out that Hrant Vardanyan has not sold “R”, but rather, he has given it to Mikael Baghdasarov in exchange for a $1 million dollar debt. Hrant Vartanyan purchased Ruben Hayrapteyan’s share-holding of …