Politics

During her interview to Asbarez newspaper, which is released in the US, the US Ambassador to Armenia Mari Yovanovitch, when speaking of the NKR conflict mentioned that there is a common understanding that the conflict cannot be resolved without the participation of the people of the NKR. “I think that at some stage the NKR …

Several days ago the Turkish National Security Council approved significant changes in a document which contains threats against Turkey claiming that Israel is now a major threat to the country, Turkish media reported. At the same time the Council decided to remove Syria, Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia from the list of countries that pose a …

Armenians worldwide were scandalized last week by Vice President Joe Biden’s revelation that Pres. Sargsyan had told him: “look, do not force this issue [Armenian Genocide recognition] now, while we are in negotiations [with Turkey].” Biden’s statement posted later that day on YouTube ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-vVX2B1H3k) was so shocking that most Armenians refused to believe that …

The leader of the Turkish Strong Turkey party Tuna Beklevich and deputy president of the same party Baybars Orsek were taken to the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia to give clarifications for the statements they made during a press-conference held yesterday. “In their press-conference they said that they had crossed the state …

The process of buying grapes from villagers started two months ago, which embezzles villagers. Even though in the beginning they announced that they would pay minimum 120 drams for one kilo of grapes, many villagers had to give their grapes to companies for 40-50 drams. The problem is that the villagers who don’t have contracts …

Relations between Robert Kocharyan and former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov were exceptionally of official character. They have never had a joint business project, told reporters the head of Robert Kocharyan’s office Victor Soghomonyan. He also stated that the individual called Armen Ghazaryan and nicknamed Pzo has never had any connection with the Kochayans’ family. Soghomonyan …

A spokesman for Armenia’s president has denied the statement ascribed to United States Vice President Joe Biden in which the latter purportedly said that Serzh Sargsyan had asked him not to “force” the Armenian genocide issue while talks on Turkish-Armenian normalization were in progress. Several days ago, an anonymous source posted footage, apparently taken secretly, …

When it was the 11th year of commemoration of the terror of October 27 1999 the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia met in Astrakhan. As a result of the meeting the parties adopted a resolution and the Russian president Medvedev made a statement about it. “It is a special resolution on measures to strengthen …

Today by noon the RA government should be able to convince the chairman of the Heritage faction Raffi Hovhannisian to once again postpone the bill on recognition of the NKR independence. Otherwise the government will have to vote against the bill on the recognition at the parliament. Or it may boycott and not participate in …

Yesterday the RA President Serzh Sargsyan left for Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation, where a trilateral meeting of the Presidents of Armenia, the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan took place in Astrakhan at the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Let us remember that this is the third meeting of the …