Politics

PA faction secretary Aram Safaryan: Russia has the biggest potential to drive Karabakh conflict settlement forward

01.02.2011

– This week the foreign ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia had a trilateral meeting in Moscow. Nothing has been published in the media about this meeting. Why are the details of this meeting kept confidential? – The information I have received from different media sources create an impression for me that this was a …

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Time to use the head instead of the hands

01.02.2011

According to Gegham Baghdasaryan, former MP of the parliament of Karabakh, expert and the editor-in-chief of the Analiticon journal, says that the evaluations and opinions of the Freedom House and other international organizations saying that Karabakh is not a free country are unacceptable for the Karabakhi authorities and government. “Frankly said I think that the …

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Is Prosperous Armenia the favorite of Russians?

30.01.2011

“In 2007 Russia provided in Armenia the victory of the RPA in elections. Russia needed a pro-Russian force to win the race. What is the current pro-Russian force in Armenia? It is the Prosperous Armenia Party. And now Russia is struggling for the Prosperous Armenia to win,” yesterday told our reporter the member of Karabakh …

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External struggle for Armenia proliferated

30.01.2011

– It seems that in the political field of Armenia governmental parties are more active than the opposition ones. However, 1-1.5 years ago the situation was different. Why is it so? – The external struggle for Armenia has drastically proliferated. The foreign forces, the US in the first place and England as well, and Russia …

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Everything will pass, but can’t pass without stains

30.01.2011

The political powers that are serving for the authorities are announcing that what happened has been expected: the PACE envoy on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg did not use the term “political prisoner”. Instead of that he said that the PACE will not impose sanctions in Armenia. The fact that Mr. Hammarberg failed to speak out …

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Gas and scenes

26.01.2011

The danger of the “Blessed moment” has always been a common topic in the Armenian new history. However, even if the Armenian leaders did not oppose to that process towards Russia, they did not support with an evident sympathy to that process. From this prospective the newly appointed mayor of Yerevan, Karen Karapetyan, has a …

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Equal to impunity

26.01.2011

“All what is going to be said in the report is my concern for the fact that the conditions of the death of ten people have not been found out. The discovering of those cases shows that it is equal to impunity,” said PACE envoy on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg to journalists following his four-day …

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Raffi is the “worst”

26.01.2011

“The Legal State is the cistern of the RPA. Those forces, which are in the ‘Recycle Bin’ of the political field, will soon appear on the ‘Desktop’ and they will say ‘Welcome’. They will try to show themselves, creating new political units; however, I do not believe that there will be surprises. Another variant is …

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They didn’t respond to Hammarberg but are thinking about that

26.01.2011

The Council of Europe’s top human rights official Thomas Hammarberg expressed “deep concern” at Armenian law-enforcement bodies’ failure to solve any of those killings. “The failure of these investigations is very serious because it means in reality that these cases have not been clarified and there is a problem there with impunity,” he said. Ending …

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Three powers in the arena

26.01.2011

According to political technologist Armen Badalyan, if parliamentary elections were to take place this Sunday, three political powers will be elected in the parliament – the Republican Party of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia party and the Armenian National Congress. “As the elections will take place in 1,5 years, during this period certain processes will definitely influence …

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