Politics

It seems that the authorities have been able to convince the PACE envoy on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg that they want to release the political prisoners very much there are no legal mechanisms for that purpose. Following a meeting with the authorities Hammarberg said that the issue of releasing the political prisoners (he did not …

According to our information, the authorities are discussing several names for the ombudsman’s position. One of the names discussed was the name of expert of Constitutional right Vardan Poghosyan, who said that he would refuse such suggestion. According to our information, following the New Year holidays the authorities suggested him to become ombudsman one more …

Yesterday Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, met with the members of the parliamentary factions. At first he met with the members of the three ruling coalition factions. Among them were Artak Zakaryan from the Republican faction, Naira Zohrabyan from Prosperous Armenia and Hovhannes Margaryan from the Legal State. He also …

In December of this year Finland celebrated the 93rd anniversary of the independent statehood. We are proud of our Northern country which acquired independence following the Russian revolution in 1917, struggled for that independence during the WWII and from being a poor agricultural country it became one of the world’s richest countries.  When speaking of …

It is the end of 2010. It is time to discuss whether we could use these 365 days for the good and what achievements we have. It seems that we did not have too many good achievements. Fortunately there were no armed conflicts in the region last year. It was the biggest achievement. Last year …

In 2008, it was a bright spring day when businessman Barsegh Beglaryan said on the air of one of the Armenian TV companies that the “coalition is slowly collapsing”. One year later, in April 2009 the Dashnaktsutyun resigned from the coalition. Now, the political circles in Armenia are discussing the rumors that the Prosperous Armenia …

Yesterday the Armenians one more time gave credit to the Russian spirit. In the morning the law on opening foreign language schools was adopted, and later the parliament cancelled the law which did not allow opening schools in foreign languages. As a result, the Russian language can be the main language in schools and even …

The German Ambassador to Armenia, Hans-Jochen Schmidt released a congratulation letter on the New Year for the Armenian people, which contains an interesting message to the police. “I have a “hidden” wish; I wish the police eventually make sure that the drivers of jeep and taxi cars don’t relate to pedestrians crossing the streets under …

Very soon Armenia will be busy with pre-election preparations. Some processes have already started with replacements in the government. The opposition ANC continues to announce that extraordinary elections will take place and by doing these replacements the authorities are fastening the process which will lead to change of government. It is not excluded that the …

On December 12-15, 2010, the APR Group center conducted a sociological research to find out how the people of Yerevan relate to the first wave of dismissing officials, particularly the resignation of the former mayor and justice minister. According to the results of the survey, 74.3% of the respondents support the dismissals, 16% don’t support …