Politics

For over a week, the Armenian political mentality is focused on trying to understand why the whole world wants Armenia to remove its military bases from the liberated lands and why Davis’s speech was so “dirty”. The political mentality has been divided into two parts. The opposition thinks that the reason for the present situation …

After the speech by Chief Secretary of the European Union Parliamentary Congress Terry Davis, no matter how amazing it may seem, the opposition was not the one causing the new wave of criticism, but rather it was the authorities, with the help of Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan and representative of the coalition member federalist party …

In response to the question of whether or not the ARF would appeal to get out of the coalition, Prime Mnister Andranik Markaryan was very indifferent: “Anything can happen”. He also stated that the ARF has never raised such a question during the coalition sessions: “The ARF has not shown any dissatisfaction to the republicans …

The leader of the Armenian community in Iraq persuaded Armenia’s authorities to not send troops to Iraq because he fears for the negative effects which may follow. Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan opposed that persuasion and said: “I would make a persuasion for the Armenian community in Iraq. How much help can they provide in solving …

National Assembly deputy Hakob Hakobyan (poll #26) claimed two days ago that the deputies have not received their 13th salary given by the government and that the National Assembly has decided to take care of that. President of the National Assembly Artur Baghdasaryan announced yesterday at a question and answer session that the legislative, executive …

Due to the events which took place in Beslan, Russia closed the border with Georgia in the framework of anti-terrorist acts. The closing of the border has stopped the flow of cargo in and out of Armenia. Federalist Hrair Karapetyan looks at this issue from Putin’s “perspective”, but at the same time he is worried …

For the first time, The Krasnadar branch of the Armenian Union of Russia(AUR) showed humanitarian aid by providing 2 million rubles to the schools and invalid people. On September 26, 21 trucks arrived in Abkhazia’s capital Sukh with construction materials, computers, stationery, and drugs.

“The Minister of Justice knows just how many random political parties there are out there: Any family that goes to a banquet or something like that forms a political party,” said member of the “National Deputy” club Vahram Barseghyan yesterday during the National Assembly’s discussion concerning the voting code. Barseghyan considers the formation of political …

Rumor has it that Robert Kocharyan did not remove former Mayor of Yerevan Robert Nzaryan from office due to his work habits. Yerevan and Moscow became “sister cities” during the time when R. Nazaryan was in office. According to facts, Mayor of Moscow Yuri Lughkov and Robert Nazaryan had agreed to sell the “Dvin” hotel …

It turns out that the purpose of the candid tapings taped by the president’s surveillance team was not to make the bad drivers drive more carefully, but rather to work some money. Basically, instead of paying the regular fee, the drivers have to pay exactly 250,000 drams. The money is not charged at the police …