Politics

“The artists of Armenia are concerned of the security issue of Nikol Pashinyan too. They have the same opinion with journalists concerning one issue, which is that the security of Nikol Pashinyan should be protected. Tomorrow, at 4p.m. writers, artists, painters, sculptures, composers, architects and others will hold a demonstration near the monument of Komitas …

– In one of your recent interviews you have mentioned that you support the idea of the return of the former President of Armenian Robert Kocharyan to active and big politics. No matter how string your arguments are don’t you think that the society hasn’t forgotten the events of October 27 and March 1 occurred …

Yesterday a discussion was organized on the new amendments to the electoral code, which was attended by a number of interested international organizations such as the USAID, OSCE, European Union, the European delegation to Armenia, the domestic and a number of international election monitoring organizations, as well as the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia. MPs …

“We presented our attitude about our understanding of our work with the prosecutor’s office and the Special Investigative Body. And in this aspect we are suggesting that the information provided to the NA should somehow be regulated so we can understand how to discuss that. And in order to understand whether we are discussing it …

As it was expected an Armenian court yesterday rejected opposition leader, editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan’s lawsuit against a controversial extension of his imprisonment by prison authorities. The latter was complaining against a decision of the warden of "Nubarashen" Penitentiary Tigran Navasardyan to prolong Pashinyan’s prison term by another four months. Pashinyan was …

President Serzh Sargsyan announced late that he will not attend the upcoming NATO summit in Lisbon because of the alliance’s plans to uphold Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Sargsyan’s spokesman Armen Arzumanyan said a draft resolution due to be adopted at the weekend summit calls for solutions to the ethnic disputes in the …

– The Armenia co-rapporteur of the PACE John Prescott during the session taken place in Paris stated that the problem of the politicians persecuted for their political views is not solved in Armenia and that they thought that all of the political prisoners would be released as a result of amnesty. Has the PACE attitude …

During his November 15 interview to the Russian Regnum the head of Unity Club Smbat Karakhanyan has made several interesting “revelations,” which surprisingly didn’t have any effect or response in Armenian political field. And the opinions of Karakhanyan are interesting because his personality has become quite important for the Armenian National Congress. During almost all …

During the recent session of the PACE Monitoring commission in Paris the reporter on Armenia, John Prescott spoke about the issue of the political prisoners resulted from the clashes of March 1 2008. He said that the issue of releasing those political prisoners would be in the focus of their upcoming monitoring visit to Armenia. …

Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper’s editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinyan’s wife Anna Hakobyan was not allowed to see her husband in the Kosh penitentiary with the reasoning that he had been subjected to disciplinary punishment and taken to a separate room, where he is not allowed to meet anybody. Yesterday they could not get in touch with Nikol Pashinyan …