Politics

After a long break yesterday the RA Prime Minister decided to respond to the questions of the journalists without preliminary preparation. He promised to have such meetings once a month. We are presenting the Q&A with slight cuts. – During the NA hearings on agricultural issues the NA chairman Hovik Abrahamyan stated that the government …

“The issue of the political prisoners is getting new colors. In fact, it is expected that they will be released not as a result of political struggle, but as a result of the greeting messages addressed to Serzh Sargsyan. If I were in the place of Serzh Sargsyan, I will issue an order in the …

The deputy chairman of the opposition Heritage party Ruben Hakobyan yesterday accused rival opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan of misleading the public and cutting a secret deal with President Serzh Sargsyan. “There is a certain agreement between the ANC and the authorities on the holding of pre-term elections to the National Assembly,” Hakobyan told a news …

“Any criminal case can be re-started if new conditions are coming out. Stepan Safaryan’s witnessing about the fact of spending the night of March 1 in Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s house can be a reason for instituting legal proceedings,” says the head of the ARF faction Vahan Hovhannisyan concerning the Heritage faction head’s announcement that when on …

Each speech of the first president of Levon Ter-Petrosyan causes tense discussions for both the opposition and government of Armenia. And during the past several months there is a situation that the government doesn’t need to anymore criticize the ANC rallies and the speeches of Ter-Petrsoyan. Neither does it need to respond to those. This …

Yesterday rally of the ANC once again started on the rostrum of Matenadaran but ended in the Liberty Square. Despite the fact that days ago the city council of Yerevan denied licensing the ANC rally at the Liberty Square the police nonetheless allowed them to do so. The Opera building and the front square were …

“After the parliamentary events of 1999 they were looking at us with a different eye. It was difficult to even meet people and convince them of something. And after 1-1,5 years when we were able to get back on our feet our positions have become quite loose in the world,” told our reporter the former …

There have been several cases that the oligarchs, the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan apply to the court with a demand to restore their humiliated honor and good reputation. And their reputation is humiliated not because of the internal tough situation in the country, low economy and politics, which is mainly the fault of …

The opposition ANC held a demonstration in the vicinity of the Matendaran and later walked to the Freedom Square, which was the continuation of the rally on April 17 with its technical characteristics and content. First, it turned out that the ANC had agreed with the authorities to enter the Freedom Square as Levon Ter-Petrosyan …

– Do you think that we’ll be able to address the external issues only after solving the internal problems? When you served as foreign minister, during those ten years those problems existed as well. Did those problems impede the negotiations on Karabakh conflict settlement? – Of course; I have always said that any rapid actions …