Politics

The head of the Heritage party Raffi Hovhannisian welcomes the decisions of the RA president to fire the mayor of Yerevan and the minister of justice. In the meantime he said, “But it would be more desirable if this had had a legal proceeding and the judicial body would have decided the level of punishment …

Yesterday in Moscow the RA President Serzh Sargsyan made a speech at the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, during which he spoke about the CSTO pact and the charter, by mentioning that the offered changes not only accelerate the methods of the organization to respond to military crises but also regulate …

On December 10, which was the international day of human rights protection, the Armenian National Congress held a small demonstration, which was followed by March. Last year the ANC held such march too. This one was different than the march of last year and the participants were demanding from the authorities the immediate release of …

The minister of extraordinary situations Armen Yeritsyan has refuted the rumors saying that the leader of Legal State party Atur Baghdasaryan wants to make him the police chief. “This information is not true,” said Armen Yeritsyan and petitioned to stop this baseless gossip. “I have been a policeman for thirty years. I think I have …

One of the most hilarious events in the political sector was the issue of resignation of Yerevan’s mayor Gagik Beglaryan. Before the resignation after the incident with him people were discussing whether he would resign or no. However, in a statement released by the president’s spokesman it became clear that the mayor would resign. He …

The mayor of Yerevan, Gagik Beglaryan, who beat up a staffer of the president’s office Aram Kandayan (Kndo), resigned from his position on December 4. This incident has been discussed on all the cover pages of newspapers and web sites. The entire political elite of Armenia attended Spanish renown singer Placido Domingo’s concert in Yerevan, …

– Were your expectations sufficed from the OSCE summit? – For us as an OSCE member state the Astana summit was interesting in two aspects. First of all it was important as an event related to security and collaboration and secondly – it was an eruption in the NKR conflict resolution process. In both of …

A document posted in the pages of the Wikileaks says that there is no object in Armenia, which would be important for the US interests. The Wikileaks has published a list of documents which according to the American diplomats are important from the prospective of the interests of the US. The list includes gas pipes, …

Before the approval of the recent agenda of the parliament Heritage faction representative Armen Martirosyan asked the speaker of the parliament Hovik Abrahamyan whether it would not be good to take out the Armenia-Turkey protocols form the agenda of the parliament generally as Wikileaks has revealed Turkey’s real goal is signing these protocols. In answer …

On Saturday the newly re-elected president of the Armenian Democratic Party Stepan Demirchyan demanded from the authorities to release the political prisoners. “The demonstrations and marches of the opposition were exclusively peaceful, but the authorities chose the violence. Instead of fair investigation of the clampdown of March 1 the authorities put the blame on the …