Politics

The UN permanent coordinator in Armenia Dafina Gercheva has condemned the incident in the Republic Square. “I think such things should not happen,” said Gercheva. She said that even though she did not know the details of the incident, she was against any attempt and violence against people who wanted to exercise their rights. “As …

The media writes that yesterday the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited the US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at her residence and stayed there for more than one hour. Later this information was approved by the government and US Embassy by stating that this was one of the traditional meetings between the PM and US Ambassador. The …

“One cannot confidently state that Armenia is a staunch ally of Russia in the South Caucasus,” Leonid Reshetnikov, Director of Russia’s Institute for Strategic Studies, told journalists in Rostov. In his opinion the political and socio-economic situation has worsened in Armenia over the last few years. He pointed out that over 50% of the Armenia’s …

Today, a regular trilateral meeting between the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia will take place in Sochi. On the threshold of the meeting experts affirmed that during the meeting interesting developments are expected. They also made quite interesting predictions. The interesting thing, for example, was the comment of one of the Russian experts, who …

The 15-point ultimatum the Armenian National Congress (ANC) issued to the Armenian authorities suggests that it was compiled at one of the centers for "color revolutions," Gagik Minasyan, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary faction, told journalists. The reason for his argument is that all the amounts indicated in the ultimatum …

Yesterday Armenian Parliament elected Karen Andreasyan as Armenian Ombudsman, with a vote 83 to 13. Andreasyan’s candidacy was nominated last week by the Armenian parliament majority loyal to President Serzh Sargsyan. Its endorsement by the full National Assembly was thus a mere formality. “If people demand judicial justice, we won’t be able to do that …

While the government and opposition are discussing the recent political events and are making predictions about the upcoming developments yesterday the National Statistics Service of Armenia released the next indices about the inflation of consumption goods of Armenia, which may in fact become a weighty factor for the political processes. According to the NSS data …

Addressing the crowd on March 1, the ANC chair Levon Ter-Petrosyan read out a 14-point ANC ultimatum addressed to the authorities. The demands included the release of about a dozen Ter-Petrosyan loyalists remaining in prison, the conduct of an independent inquiry into the 2008 bloodshed and the sacking of several high-ranking state officials, including Prime …

“When there is freedom, the civil society can move hills. Normally governments would like to see the hills where they are, but when the civil society has enough support to make the government make changes, it is a sign that it is time to move the hills,” said the US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch …

Yesterday the Heritage faction of the NA created a quite turmoil in the parliamentary (and not only) routine. The founder of the party Raffi Hovhannisian, by criticizing the recent statement of the government, suddenly found out that it doesn’t reflect the demands of the society and that the agenda of the parliament doesn’t stem from …