Politics

Why don’t Armenians believe in the future? Why do Armenians emigrate? The US charge d’affairs in Armenia Joseph Pennington observes that that hard economic situation, worsened by the world economic crisis, as well as the political instability stimulate emigration from the country. Even the successful representatives of the medium class say that hence they do …

The court of general jurisdiction of Nork-Maraksh and Kentron communities has partially approved the claim of NA businessmen MPs Samvel Alexanyan, Levon Sargsyan and Ruben Hayrapetyan for moral compensation brought against the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper. According to the court verdict, the information published in the article entitled “Seven out of the right are in the …

According to our sources of information, it is not excluded that the conflicts between the RPA and PA since last year will be finally solved soon. According to our information, the leaderships of the PA and RPA have met and agreed on this. In the near future the president of PA party Gagik Tsarukyan will …

We are publishing the full interview of the Speaker of the NA Hovik Abrahamyan with the journalists with minor cuts – What is your opinion about the creation of a bicameral parliament? – The intention of making the Armenian Parliament bicameral should still be debating, it is still in the embryonic situation. Constitutional reforms should …

Yesterday the Yerevan Court of general instance of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities partly sufficed the claim of NA businessmen MPs Samvel Aleksanyan, Ruben Hayrapetyan and Levon Sargsyan, who had sued “Haykakan Zhamanak” last month after it refused to run a retraction of what they say are false claims amounting to defamation of character. The case …

In an interview with "MediaMax" agency, the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan touched upon the debate over leader of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan’s statement, which has been most intensively discussed in the past two weeks. -During the past several weeks the most intensively discussed topic was the statement of the chairman of …

The justice ministry commission in charge of the examination of Public Notaries on December 27 has finalized the results. The official web site of the Justice ministry writes that 17 examination works out of the 30 works have been checked. According to the preliminary plan, the other 13 works have not been checked as 3 …

According to our information the first president of Armenia and leader of the Armenian National Congress Levon Ter-Petrosyan forbad his teammates to speak about the leader of the People’s Party Tigran Karapetyan inside the ANC office. They are not even allowed to utter his name. According to our sources within the ANC the leader of …

Yesterday the former foreign affairs minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan dismissed press reports that he was at variance with Armenian National Congress Leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan. “I have no disagreements with anyone. If I had any, I would say it openly, as I used to do during the 50 years of my life experience," he said …

Businessman Gagik Tsarukyan sought yesterday to end an unfolding war of words between his Prosperous Armenia Party and President Serzh Sargsyan’s Republican Party (RPA) that was sparked by his weekend remarks. Tsarukyan said his claim that former President Robert Kocharyan could have easily taken over the RPA were misunderstood by the Prosperous Armenia’s senior partner …