Politics

“If that mission comes and wants to see the real situation, they will find out that most of the liberated territories are mostly populated by Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, who live there with maximum normal life. And if they don’t ignore the human principles, they will appreciate it,” said Alexan Hakobyan to our newspaper, who …

– In your appeal what will the fact-collecting group of the OSCE Minsk Group find in the liberated territories of the NKR? – If this mission arrives and really intends to observe the actual situation then it will find out that in most of the liberated territories Armenians from Azerbaijan live. And that they live …

One year ago, National Assembly MP Karo Karapetyan opened fire on Artur Zadoyan, a resident of Nerkin Dvin village. “On September 28, 2009, at 10:30, you came to my wine factory and proposed to pay an amount for some stolen cars; a Mercedes, a Touareg and a Porsche. I accepted the offer and we went …

Yesterday during a TV bridge a State Duma member Semen Baghdasarov said that Russia is not very interested in the regulation of the Armenian-Turkish relations. “It is very good that the Armenian-Turkish relations failed because those were contradicting both the Russian and Armenian interests,” he said. He stated that taking into account the close relations …

On the threshold of winter, when ordinary citizens worry about the expected growth of prices of food and communal expenses, the analysis and predictions of politicians about the expected active changes in the political sector are totally strange. The parties and politicians are pretending that they believe that people are following their words attentively not …

The political parties are preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections without additional formalities. If till yesterday only the governmental parties were speaking about elections then yesterday the Heritage has taken the first practical step by not excluding that in 2012 they may participate in the race jointly with the ANC. This was yesterday stated by …

The story about the intention of Russia to sell two divisions of anti-zenithal missile complexes C-300 to Azerbaijan is activated again and is a topic of discussions. Specifically, some newspapers have commented on Serzh Sargsyan’s recent statements and written that the president had been informed about the preparation of this deal between Moscow and Baku. …

Yesterday the NA held hearing on the bill, as a result of the adoption of which it will become possible to open foreign language schools in Armenia. Let us say immediately that as a result no content change has taken place. The minister of education Armen Ashotyan, who was advocating for this bill with all …

During yesterday’s session the government approved the amendment and changes to the law on excise tax, and cancelling the laws on the payments for cigarette production and for petrol and diesel. According to the officials, by doing this the government is going to turn to a more effective method of taxing cigarette production and the …

The head of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies Richard Giragosyan participated in a roundtable discussion organized at the Caucasus Institute and said in the presence of the Russian Ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko that before Russia used to be pro-Armenian  but now “it has established strong positions in the region, has interests in Azerbaijan …