Politics

“France, being one of the trusted countries of the European Union, forbids Jehovah’s witnesses from carrying out their actions. In contrast to the French, we enlisted them in our country and made a big deal out of the whole thing when we have other issues.” Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan, who has prevented the enlistment of …

The media have published some articles stating that some government officials are not pleased with the work done by the “fight against corruption” department of the prosecutors’ office. The reason for that is that Chief Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan has turned it all into a political lever for bringing up actions against certain officials. Judging from …

On October 6, the “Echo” newspaper made a reference to the American UPI agency, stating that Defense Minister of Azerbaijan Safar Abiev and U.S. Vice-State Secretary of Eurasian issues Steven Paifer have agreed to allocate military bases in Azerbaijan and the “seized” lands of Fizulia, Jebrayil and Zangelan. Yesterday the Foreign Minister of the Republic …

On the occasion of Samvel Babayan’s release from jail, his wife Irina Babayan was congratulated with bouquets of flowers and well-wishers. Among the friends was 6th chief administrator of the “Fight against organized crimes” administration Ashot Grigoryan, Head of the Presidential Security Services turned Chief of State Conservation Services Grisha Sargsyan and the President’s Chief …

The CIS inter-parliamentary defense and security congress sessions took place yesterday in Yerevan. Despite the preliminary arrangements, the delegations of Azerbaijan and Georgia were the only ones not participating. The absence of Azerbaijan’s delegation is somewhat acceptable, but what about Georgia’s delegation? “Georgia’s deputies have claimed that due to the recent parliamentary elections they have …

The European Union Committee publicly announced yesterday its decision regarding Turkey’s admission into the European Union. The decision is in favor of all. The committee called on all European Union countries to lead negotiations with Turkey regarding this issue. Before the committee’s speech, Prime Minister of Turkey Erdoghan made a long speech. According to experts, …

Yesterday, 60 year old citizen of Turkey Ali Davut was arrested by the Georgian-Turkish “Vale” border-guards while crossing the border to Turkey. The charge for arrest is connected with the absence of a visa in Ali’s passport for leaving Armenia. According to the “Regnum” agency, the message received by the Georgian border-guards states that before …

On Tuesday, the secretarial office of the European Union congress presented an issue to the ministers entitled “Exclusion of Armenia from the EU” during the congress session. With this in mind, leader of the Armenian delegation of the EU Tigran Torosyan said: “The EU uses a type of mechanism: each deputy writes down his desired …

The delicious details about the 2003 National Assembly election campaign will satisfy all the humor the voters need. The residents of the Dimidrov village in the Ararat region have a story to tell. During the “Orinats Yerkir”(Lawful Land) political party’s visit to the village, despite the many falso promises made to the villagers, the political …

Any deputy who speaks out against “Orinats Yerkir” (Lawful Land) political party, “Orinats Yerkir” (LL) immediately publishes “compromits” against him. Nobody pays attention to the LL’s “transparency and follow-up” anymore, no matter how serious or even if it is composed of criminal elements. Yesterday, the target for LL, in particular for deputy of the LL …